Imagine what it would feel like if you had a vision of something bad happening to you or to someone else, and then tried to stop it. Now imagine that happened twice in a row, and you have "Final Destination 2," the sequel to "Final Destination." The new film does exactly the same as the first, following the lives of a group of people who managed to cheat death. Only this time, death is working backwards. The movie begins with Kim (A. J. Cook, of "Out Cold") driving down the highway, when a huge truck with giant logs on it flies by, steered by a drunk driver. The beginning goes through all of these different characters driving down the highway, and what each one does when the logs suddenly fall off of the truck and begin a mass killing streak, ending in a giant automobile pile up.

Suddenly, Kim's head snaps up, she is still sitting on the on-ramp at the red light and the line of people behind her are the same ones that are supposed to die. From there, death begins to stalk them, beginning with her friends in the car she is pulled out of, to the guy who just won the lottery, to the boy going to the dentist with his mother, each one dying in a new and unique way. The girl, Kim, is the only one to get actual visions, but everyone gets his own signs.

A great twist is when Clear Rivers (Ali Larter of "Legally Blond"), our last survivor from "Final Destination," is brought into the plot when Kim asks her for help, since she is the only one who has dealt with this before. Clear had spent the past year in an institution because she believed death was still after her, especially after it had finally found and killed Alex (Devon Sawa of "Final Destination") by having a brick fall on him.

Clear, Kim and Officer Thomas Burk (Michael Landes of "Hart's War") go off in search of a way to stop death from hunting them down. The stories say that new life stops death; in other words, if someone who was not supposed to live survives, they confuse death so that he has to start anew and everyone has a clean slate. Unfortunately, they do not realize what new life truly means until the end.

This movie is very gory and bloody -- a far cry from its slightly conservative predecessor. The script is original -- everyone had such a different way of dying, most people would never have been able to think of half of them. Some are even based on ideas that are supposed to keep us safe. This movie is not very different from the first one in story line, but I was disappointed in the actual plot compared to the first one. The original waited a bit before everyone started to die; its sequel started killing people right off the bat.

While it was a good movie, making a sequel to movies about premonitions is somewhat self-defeating. I guess the first "Final Destination" wasn't quite final enough, but let's hope number two is.