Final Destination 5 Reviews
What Culture
The kill-or-be-killed twist could have made this the best Destination since the first, but the idea is woefully underdeveloped even if the film is nevertheless gorier and smarter than the diabolical fourth instalment.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Top CriticIt's a slack but competently executed film of a script with butterknife-dull dialogue and actors cast because of their "type."
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Fan The Fire
A link into the earlier films at the close of 5 is nice, but adds little overall, and though it might be fun with a bunch of friends on a Friday night, hopefully this is the end for what has become a very tired franchise.
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| Original Score: 2/5
I expect this movie to make a lot of money at the box office, spent by fans eager to see still more cool ways for hot young characters to be slaughtered. My review will not be read by any of these people. They know what they enjoy.
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| Original Score: 2/4
I'd rather see a documentary about the peaceable, versatile uses of WD-40, but you know teenagers.
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| Original Score: 2/4
So tapped into its audience's giddy schadenfreude that beyond a kinkier-than-usual jolt of black humor and some clever red herrings, the formula remains rote...
A new wrinkle in how the killings spool out actually makes the film even more predictable, and the deaths, which tend to be squirmy rather than explosive, are so perfunctory and lazily jokey that they leave a decidedly bad aftertaste.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
FILMINK (Australia)
Final Destination 5 is moderately enjoyable splatter for those in an undemanding mood but never attains any real scares or resonant moments.
BET.com
The 3-D sequel is the best incarnation since the original. Let me be clear, this is no great horror film; it's simply better than versions two, three and four, which isn't saying much. But this is Final Destination; it's critic-proof, so enjoy the ride.
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| Original Score: C+
FEARnet
Let this series die already so someone can reboot it in nine years.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
When stuff that serves us turns deadly, we're in a world of hallucinatory hurt. FD5 occasionally generates that kind of frisson, but it never goes bone-deep.
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| Original Score: 2/5
To borrow from TV terminology, the series hasn't jumped the shark yet, but the strain of inventing bizarre deaths is beginning to show.
From the opening credits to the final kill this film displays a great use of 3-D.
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| Original Score: 2.0/5
"FD 5" did not raise even a single goose bump - which for a movie that bills itself as horror is not a good thing.
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| Original Score: 2/5
The death sequences are fun; unfortunately, nearly everything in between is tedious and mechanical.
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| Original Score: C+
The Scorecard Review
Two great death sequences don't make a movie. Just awful acting and pacing ruin the fun this film could be.
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| Original Score: 4/10
Urban Cinefile
Blood, gore and splatter are plentiful in this fifth film of the franchise in which premonition morphs into reality and death follows
BrianOrndorf.com
A few inventive shocks are scattered throughout, but the rest is unremarkable madness, punctuated with a thriller-style conclusion that resembles another movie altogether.
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| Original Score: C-
Antagony & Ecstasy
92 fleet minutes of the absolutely pointless evisceration of characters we care about not even slightly, given a sheen of carnivalesque gaudiness thanks to the hugely discredited 3-D process.
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| Original Score: 5/10
