Before I begin this review, I feel i should point out that I am a fan of the first Final Destination film. I enjoyed it quite a bit, and would give it probably 4/5.
Now, this sequel isn't quite "more of the same". For a start, we discover soon into it, that the surviving bloke from the first film actually ended up succumbing to Death, but the firl is alive and...not so well, hiding out in a mental institute, to which she voluntarily committed herself.
The film begins with a TV show, on which some nutjob (kinda like those stereotypical conspiracy theory nutjobs) is talknig about his book about the force of death, and how he believes it's actually a malignant force, thanks to what the (now dead) last guy standing from the first film said about it. So this nutjob is trying to convince people about death, and that it's possible to cheat death for awhile. Of course, people aren't listening, and are instead ridiculing him.
Along comes this girl who has one of the psychic visions of multi-death (cue many explosions as a result of a humungous freeway pileup). She gets the vision as she, driving a car with three of her friends in, is waiting to turn onto the freeway. She starts freaking out when she comes back to the real world, natch, and just as a policeman is asking what's the holdup, she sees the cause of the pileup in her vision, a large log-carrying truck, go trundling past. Cue the crash
As you'd expect, the people who would've died according to her vision are pretty shaken about how close they came to being obliterated. But they're skeptical about the whole "force of death thing", that is until they start dying (only, this time it's in reverse order rather than the same order as they would have done according to the vision). This is the "meat" of the movie - the imaginative, and this time rather more graphically gory, ways by which each of those ho should've died, dies. First we have an impalement, then a crushing (in which you actually see the beginnings of the person getting crushed), then a beheading, another impalement, a dismemberment, 2-in-1 explosion, and another explosion. It's not for the weak-stomached, and to be honest not a whole lot of actual story happens. Creepy-morgue-guy makes another appearance, but only very briefly, to give the peeps a clue as to how they can really cheat death (and no, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but then that's not really the point of this movie).
It's still a pretty enjoyable movie, but not as good as the first. it relies more on trying to shock you, I think, with the extreme death scenes, but it doesn't really work (I've seen the likes of Braindead and the Living Dead series and so on, so i'm not easily shocked when it comes to gore)
A 3/5 if you can stomach the gore and paper-thin story. 2/5 otherwise.