Final Destination 5 is a film for those of you who enjoy gore, nail-biting suspense, and also have that little part of you that loves a bit of schadenfreude.
The basis of the story is the same as ever, people escape death, and death comes to find them. The film begins with the introduction of 8 fairly tedious characters as they share some poorly written and dull dialogue before they embark on a bus journey that will change their lives.
As usual Final Destination 5 manages to find new amusing and sick ways to kill off the characters, some were fast, some were drawn out with so many possibilities that the audience didn’t know what to expect. Humour played a large part in releasing the tension as the audience sat and laughed, along with a sigh of relief, when the characters finally did meet their makers.
The director has managed to create some characters so slimy and irritating that you want them to die and watching their demise becomes all the more enjoyable. However the characters that the audience is meant to want to survive, become equally dislikeable, as they are so boring! Whoever told the production team for FD5 that more scenes of crying and love were needed was wrong!
The film is totally what you would expect. Repetitive, gory and tense. In that respect the FD5 team have done their job but not much else. It may be the case that the most basic production values were left for granted as the FD5 team focused on making the 3-D experience as high quality as the many other competitors in their market.
However, I did leave the cinema happy, happy to not be being chased by death and happy that I’d got the full “Scary Movie Experience.”
If you fancy a fright and a laugh go ahead and try out Final Destination 5 for yourself! Oh and I dare you to watch it in 3-D!
