Few contemporary movies have left audiences with images quite as visceral as the one that opens “Final Destination 2,” one that has been making drivers avoid logging trucks on the freeway since 2003.

It's eerily reminiscent of a death that occurs in "Final Destination 4," in which Hunt (Nick Zano) gets disemboweled by a pool filter. It's unclear if this was intentional foreshadowing, but seeing as ...