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When a horror flick gets tedious, it's DOA.

Part of the fun here is anticipating the Rube Goldberg-style machinations by which Death catches up with its targets.

That there is an audience for a movie in which innocent people suffer hideous accidental deaths is troubling enough, but that a group of creative people chose to direct their energies on this repulsive spectacle simply provokes disgust.

The filmmakers clearly set out to make a film that featured lots of footage of really disgusting annihilations, then threw together a haphazard script and hired a few hot actors to play the corpses.

It's sick, stupid stuff, and intentionally so.

You'll gasp, you'll flinch, you'll cringe, but mostly you'll scream.

If you think of all this as an elongated Three Stooges short with bones breaking and membranes splashing, maybe it will go down easier.

Though the complicated carnage is competently filmed and staged, the acting and the dialogue are often risible enough to make you wonder if the film isn't a spoof brought you by the folks from Scary Movie.

It contains some of the most brain-dead people a screenplay has ever produced.

Takes a good idea from the first film and pounds it into the ground, not to mention decapitating, electrocuting, skewering, blowing up, incinerating, drowning and gassing it.

Final Destination 2 doesn't pretend to be anything other than a robotic repeat of the first film.

Once you get past its supremely nonsensical title, Final Destination 2, a smooth and sharp slice of teen-gothic cheese, is kind of fun.

The movie is a real jolter for horror fans who like the charge of gory images but also demand a certain level of intelligence in the proceedings.

It has a sense of humor ... but in the end is overwhelmed by its silliness.

Entertaining enough to make you forget that you're watching little more than death warmed over.

It's a soulless affair that has little of the panache and intelligence of 2000's Final Destination.

Bloody, graceless and surprisingly effective.

FD2, despite some imaginative fatalities, is less a movie than a slick video game.