Director: James Wong
Year: 2006
Country: USA/Canada
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Supernatural Slasher
Plot:
After a premonition saves a group from a roller coaster crash, the survivors begin to die off in a series of grisly accidents and forcing the remaining friends to use the continuing premonitions one of the survivors experiences so they can find a way to stop the deaths from continuing.
Review:
Overall, this was quite an enjoyable and wholly entertaining part of the series. Like with the others, what really works well here is the setup for the initial premonition, as the scenery at the carnival is quite well-handled and really amps up the suspense in here. The party atmosphere is successfully blinded by the demonic statues, games, and the different signs showing up around the park, even before getting to the main roller coaster, which is yet again a rather imposing event, which lets the action go on quite nicely with all the suspense around them.
There's also the start of the film's best part here, with its spectacular action scenes really carrying this one along, with spectacular scenes that just overwhelm with the spectacle and the ingenuity to pull off the scenes here in the absolutely thrilling crash scene that occurs. It comes off incredibly well and even plausibly as to how the crash could occur in real life, taken to an extreme in allowing the deaths to occur here in really great ways, and sets up the later encounters quite well. There's plenty of big action encounters here, from the sequence in the tanning salon that comes off incredibly cruel, the crash at the drive-up window, and the insane tension at the hardware store, which makes this a notable sequence with all the different potential hazards at play before getting to the crazy death scene.
There's also the grand finale at the celebration, which features some thrilling scenes, a rather exciting horse-chase sequence through the grounds, and really gets a great resolution to this one. Along with the usual high-quality gore for the kills, these make this one quality enough to hold off the few small flaws here. The main issue here is that there's very little set-up for the kills, which are just so quick and over so briefly that they don't have much in the way of suspense about them. This is compounded by the other factor here with the lame mystery about the photographs not being all that well-handled, and it just doesn't have much intrigue about them. These here are what hold this one down.
Overview: ****/5
One of the best in the series, this one comes off incredibly well and manages to bring together a lot to like with only a few drawbacks, which keep this one of the more enjoyable sequels. Those with an appreciation for this kind of mainstream genre efforts, are fans of the franchise, or enjoy the creative crew, will have the most to like here, while most others out there should heed caution.
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