Final Destination 5: Movie Review
Final Destination 5
Rating: 5/10
Cast: Nicholas D'Agosto, Emma Bell, Miles Fisher, Ellen
Wroe, Jacqueline MacInnes Wood, Tony Todd
Director: Steven Quale
Fifth time's the charm for the franchise?
When a group of workers head out on a coach on a business retreat, Sam
(D'Agosto) has a premonition the vehicle he's on is going to be pulled off a
suspension bridge which will collapse. The vision's so powerful, Sam
persuades seven of his coworkers to get off and run for their lives.
While the bridge does indeed collapse, the eight of them reckon they've had a
lucky escape...however, when one by one, they're picked off and die in
mysterious ways, it's clear Death's marked their card and is determined to
collect.
Final Destination 5 has some good points and some bad points - while the
bridge collapse scene is spectacularly well done, the rest of the deaths seem a
little forced and it feels like the writers are starting to feel the strain of
inventing new ways to off a largely unknown cast.
That said, some of the scenes, including one where one poor girl gets a
fatal laser eye treatment, are likely to have you squirming in your seat and the
addition of 3D means a variety of objects spike out at you on the screen. But
the gore is mainly more amusing than frightening and Quale does a good job of
stretching out the tension so that by the time the final death scene comes
round, you've been waiting for it for a while.
A clever addition to the series, as explained by Death's emissary Tony Todd,
is that if you're marked for death and you kill someone else, you're given back
your life is unexplored for the potential dramatic tension that it has and is
wasted as a great new twist which would have had some scripting legs. Equally,
the ending is impressive and to discuss that any further would venture into
spoilers territory - but it shows there is some thought gone into the latest
film.
Sadly though, with a relatively bland cast of at times wooden actors and some
frankly average dialogue, any real tension between the group feels forced and
unrealistic, leading you to struggle to care if they are offed or not by the
Grim Reaper.
Ultimately, if you're after a few comic moments, a bit of suspense and blood
splashing onto you courtesy of 3D, then Final Destination 5 will tick your
boxes. Everyone else will just hope the franchise is now finally laid to
rest.
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