Director: David R. Ellis
Year: 2003
Country: USA/Canada
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Supernatural Slasher
Plot:
When a vivid premonition stops her from participating in a massive accident, a woman tries to convince those she's saved that the strange accidents they're involved in are a matter of death, ensuring his plans are carried out, and tries to stop them.
Review:
This one was an immensely enjoyable sequel that really rivals the original. Among the better qualities here is that this one manages to really portray a truer sense of dread and suspense about the situation, as this one really gets a lot of great facts about the surroundings, which really affect everyday life. This one really bridges that concept from the first one even further here by making the accidents seem so far out of logical realms that they're simply, truly accidents brought about through actual, honest coincidences which makes for a rather tense time throughout the first half b building this through the repeated visions, the first few deaths and the call-backs to what happened in the original.
This is compounded by the tendency here to showcase the warning signs rather well here as the suspenseful nature of these supposed encounters is some incredible foreshadowing of what's going to happen, and the fact that there are some rather creepy moments from these issues makes this quite fun. The film's best feature, though, is based on the most impressive part of the story here, in its really freaky, action-packed encounters starting with the film's high point of the opening car crash. There's a fine piece of spectacle to be had here in seeing the kind of high-impact mangling of cars, vehicular stunt-work, and continued continuations that not only provide this one with plenty of suspense building up to the crash, action with all the different spectacle encounters, as well as the gory deaths along the way.
Other big scenes here, from the insanely tense encounter in the doctor's office with several close calls here with the different traps with the electrified water almost getting here and the different false reactions here to the eventual death, the scenes in the apartment are really fun with the false scares followed by the actual kill in the lobby following the revelations found earlier and the absolutely fun encounter in the field makes for a great scene with the splendid set-up in the care beforehand which ties their fates into the original as well as showing another big crash and the fun, over-the-top kills that are present here makes this one incredibly fun.
These are the film's good points, which manage to hold off the few flaws here. It's all in the finale here, which meanders around with numerous side-plots, rather middling suspense scenes, and the rare occasions where the traps just seem contrived, and the whole affair seems to be quite the letdown from what came before it. There's also the small factor of this one going for the same route as the original in terms of how the story's paid off, but it's not as big a deal here. Otherwise, this one was quite an impressive enough sequel.
Overview: *****/5
A simply wonderful and watchable sequel that tops the original, this comes off as a fantastic sequel with even more positive factors to enjoy that hold it up over the already great original. Give this a shot if you're a fan of this style of genre fare, appreciate this era of mainstream genre fare, or are a fan of the original, while those turned off by these factors should heed caution.
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