Final Destination 5 Reviews

Funnily enough, I didn't hate this. I am still not sure why...

I am constantly amazed when I see folks knocking this series. Unlike me, they must have no sense of humor. For me, this series represents some of the greatest comedies ever made. Even if I've seen one of them before, I still love to watch the build up to the way in which the next victim will meet his/her demise, and when it happens, I roar with laughter -- even after multiple viewings. Now that's my definition of a good movie. This one actually is one of the funnier ones, and the effects continue in their groundbreaking fashion. The freaky death of the gymnast, that final positon on the mat, hilarious, I kid you not. Seriously, for good laughs, you must watch this series. When you think about it, these are kind of an extension of 1000 Ways To Die. I look forward to the next installment with great anticipation.

Always been a fool for this series, and this fifth installment is no exception.

A decent entry into the series, a step up from the 4th. I didn't get to see it in 3d but imagine it was pretty good. Very big opening scene, and plenty of inventive "accidents" and gore. You know what to expect for most of it. Thought the ending was a nice touch!

Supposedly finished with the last movie, this is a decent whack at the original format. Although pretty much all the deaths were foretold in the trailer, there were a good few curveballs thrown in. I especially liked the reverting to before the original film.

It's not often that the fifth entry in a series is one of the best efforts, but Final Destination 5 pulls it off. It's still mostly the same scenario with new deaths and new actors, but the formula is tweaked a bit to make it interesting again.

As for the deaths, overall I'd say these are a couple of the most memorable in Final Destination history. I'll just say that there will be no laser eye surgeries or acupuncture appointments in my future. The actors are just another round of disposable (and vaguely familiar) pretty faces, but they die convincingly enough and aren't excessively annoying, and that's all you can really ask for.

If you're still up for more Final Destination, this one has as much or more entertainment value as any of the rest. It even has some links back to an earlier movie in the series, which fans will appreciate.

I like to think I'm a pretty hardy film-goer, but this certainly tested my limits. Final Destination 5 is not for the faint of heart, but the excessive violence and gore is a lot of fun if you can withstand it. This is the first Final Destination film I've seen, but it certainly won't be the last. Like the Saw film series, though, I'll need to wait at least a few weeks before my brain (and gag reflex) can withstand seeing something like this again.

If there was any cosmic justice the Final Destination franchise would have been KO'd by death a long time ago. The initial interest of bizarre, fiendishly clever deaths and the constant macabre misdirection was fun, but now, after five movies, feels creatively exhausted. Once again a group of unremarkable characters survive a remarkable disaster, this time a collapsing bridge. And once again we have to follow them figuring out the rules of the movie series and that they're all marked for death. The in-between stuff is some of the worst drama ever captured on screen. It makes you impatient for death to get off its duff and kill more teenagers so I don't have to listen to their whiny, unrealistic problems. Coming off a limp fourth movie that was the highest-grossing one yet, the filmmakers once again turn to 3-D as their savior, which does not play well at all on your TV (a sailboat mast becoming an instrument for impaling?). It's more annoying than anything. But the real draw of this movie is the gruesomely elaborate deaths, and they're probably the weakest of the series (a gymnast's body practically exploding once she hit a padded mat seems absurd even for this movie). There is one sequence that freaked me out but that's because I'm quite squeamish when it comes to eye trauma. What ends up slightly redeeming Final Destination 5, as far as cheap horror movies go, is a surprising third act that breaks from the doldrums of the franchise formula. For once, the people decide to take life to save themselves when death comes calling, and they set their sights on each other, resentful that one of their own survived in the premonition staple. I think this horror franchise took a turn for the worst when it gave into its target audience's cynical bloodlust, and I doubt there's anything "final" about this series. At least the Saw franchise had the merit to die.

Nate's Grade: C

A guy has a premonition that a bridge that he is on will collapse. He convinces people to get off the bus. But death follows them. I didn't like the eye laser surgery scene.

Fans of this franchise know precisely what to expect, and the film delivers it with wit and flair.

This Summer, death decides how... fate decides when.

It surely does deliver a lot of goosebumps

Although the movie may be ridicolus and what not, it is still able to get you on the edge of the sit and biting off all your nails.

Another film where a group of students cheat death after seeing a premonition, all of them are destined to die, the only thing is how are they going to die? That's for us to discover

Bad acting, yes. Bad directing, yes. Stupid, yes. But it was better than I thought it was going to be, so you know what I mean its just a good movie to watch and get a pedicure (bite your nails). So its kinda fun.

William Bludworth: "You all just be careful now."

The film follows the Final Destination formula like the rest of the series, but makes it's triumph on a clever ending.

We all share a common destination.

More than I expected. Good movie. The movie has it's very good moments and it was thrilling and jaw dropping at times, you think you know what's exactly gonna happen but then you're completely wrong.

The film opens up with a bunch of workers who are gathering together for a company retreat. Sam Lawton has prepared the breakfast before the bus ride. Sam is a fellow office worker and short order cook. His best friend Peter is awaiting everyone else's arrival for the trip. Molly Harper, Sam's girlfriend, arrives and she then breaks up with him due to his dreams of going to Paris to be an apprentice for his mentor. Sam is hurt by Molly's decision. Meanwhile Peter's girlfriend Candice, an intern for the company and a gymnast, comes along with her rival Olivia Castle, a clad dressed office girl. Molly is being hit on by Isaac Palmer, a co-worker and womanizer. Sam then goes to the construction wing of the building to find his other friend Nathan Sears, a supervisor who has a hard time dealing with construction worker Roy. Nathan and Sam regroup and head on the bus to their destination. As the bus heads up on the bridge, Sam notices the roads construction is rather suspicious, and he begins to have weird feelings while on the bus. The bus is stopped by a traffic operator, and then the bridge starts to crack. The workers get off of the bus. The group gets off first. Candice is trapped when chunks of the road fall into the lake below. She hangs onto the railing of the bridge far off to the side, but the railing detaches, sending her to fall and impale herself on the sail of a nearby boat. The group panics as the bridge is getting worse by the second. Isaac, who was taking a call in the bus's bathroom, is still on the bus, and the bus is sent crashing into the lake, sending Isaac to the windshield to be crushed and drowned on impact. A crack in the middle of the bridge kills many people. Only a pair of support beams are the way to get to the other side to safety. Sam helps Molly over, and she makes it across. Sam tries to help Olivia, but she has lost her glasses and falls into the lake. Olivia, still alive tries to swim, but a car comes falling down, crushing her. Nathan tries to reach Sam, but the wires supporting the bridge detach and one flies across the path, killing him. The company boss Dennis is sent over the edge of the bridge, but as he hangs on, a tank of hot tar spills and burns Dennis's flesh off, sending him to fall into the lake with the rest of the debris. Peter catches the sustained part of the rail of the bridge and Sam does the same. Molly panics as she watches the two. The truck beside her has a metal slider that is holding several construction rods. The slider falls and the rods impale Peter through his face, and he falls to the cement foundation of the bridge, killing him. The slider continues to fall forward, slicing Sam in half. When Sam comes to, he see's he is still alive and he gets Molly off the bus. Peter, Candice, Olivia, Nathan, Isaac, and Dennis follow. The bridge begins to collapse and Sam rushes all of his friends to safety. The group looks surprised and confused as to how Sam knew the accident was going to happen. During the company funeral, William Bludworth, a local coroner, is present and he warns the group that Death is after them. They all ignore his warnings and move on with their lives. Sam and Molly reconcile later that night. The next day, Candice is with Peter at her gymnastics practice, and he cheers her on. Candice does some work on the balance beam, and a nail from a malfunctioning fan falls on the beam, nail side up. Candice has many close calls with the nail, but it never injures her. Candice then goes to do some vault work. She is flipping while a fan set up by one of the coaches is turned on. Another girl on the beam does a routine and she falls on the nail, and she knocks over a pit full of powder. The powder is blown into the area and Candice loses her sight, and she flips, accidentally letting go, landing on her neck, causing her spine and knee to pop through her skin. Sam consoles a depressed Peter. The next day, the group is all together at their work place and they all start drinking to relax. Isaac is going through dead co-workers' desks and he comes across a Chinese massage parlor. Isaac arrives, flirting with many of the women, but is taken care of by an old Chinese woman who speaks English, but simply refuses to speak to Isaac. She later does acupuncture on him, and leaves him in a room where the walls are sound proof. As Isaac rolls over on his bed, the leg of it caves in sending him to the ground, pushing the needles into his body. He staggeringly gets up, but a bottle of alcohol causes a fire from a candle falling after Isaac's phone rings. Isaac avoids the contained fire, but as he waits against the wall, a shelved Buddha falls and crushes his head. Bludworth, who has been present for all of the deaths so far, is there and tells the remaining survivors that there is another way to avoid Death. They would have to kill someone to gain their remaining days on Earth. Peter revels in the idea to where it makes him crazy. Agent Jim Block is covering the case of Sam and his friends, but he finds all of the deaths hard to believe. Olivia goes to get eye surgery the same day, and the doctor straps her head into place. Olivia, fearful, holds a teddy bear, and as the doctor put in tools to keep her eyes open, she rips off an eye from the bear. Olivia is told by the doctor to wait, but the machine begins to malfunction, overheating, and the button to begin surgery is dropped as she reaches for it in panic. The remote drops and the laser slices her eye open. The laser goes off a few more times and it burns through her hand and scars her face. She then escapes the machine. Sam and Molly and the doctor run in to see a scared Olivia, and she trips on the teddy bear's eye. She falls through the window onto a parked car, and falls off as her eye rolls away to be run over by a car.

Nathan is working in construction and he is talking to Roy, an angry employee of his. Nathan immediately sees a beam move closer to him with a hook under it. Nathan urges Roy to move, but he accidentally pushes him backwards as the hook falls, and Roy is stopped from landing on the spikes below. Nathan then sees Roy has been impaled by the hook through the head. As the group comes together, Peter finds that Nathan accidentally killed Roy, taking his days, skipping him in Death's design. Meanwhile, as Dennis grills them all, a wrench that Roy placed on a machine is twisted into Dennis's face, the long way. Later that night, in Le Miro 81, the cafe Sam cooks for, his mentor lets him become an apprentice in Paris. He also lets Sam have the restaurant for the night to spend it with Molly. Peter crashes the dinner, and he tells a story of how he tried to push a woman in front of a truck to steal her life. Peter admits he couldn't do such an act, and he then ponders Candice's death and how she didn't deserve to die, but yet Molly supposedly survived Sam's vision. Peter then tries to kill Molly. Molly takes refuge in the kitchen and Sam fights off Peter before Agent Block is shot by Peter, taking his years. The struggle leads to a gun being placed on the burning stove, but as Peter is about to kill Molly, Sam stabs him in the back with a large skewer. Then Sam realizes he stole Agent Block's life from Peter, but Agent Block wasn't supposed to survive that long anyway.

A month later, Sam and Molly are boarding a plane to Paris, and she asks for the window seat. As they are boarding, a group of high schoolers fight, as a kid is kicked off with several students and a teacher. During take off, Sam overhears that the kid claimed to have a vision the plane was going to explode. Sam freaks out as he looks at his plane ticket, which reads "Flight 180". The plane begins to explode as the kid, revealed as Alex Browning, predicted. Molly is sucked out the side, and is cut in half by the wing as the rest of plane catches fire, burning Sam to death. As the plane goes down in flames, a flame engulfed engine falls. Nathan is at a local bar, and he is talking to a guy who reveals that Roy was supposed to die in the next few days after his actual death involving the hook because he was ill. Nathan worries as the guy walks away to say "Life is a bitch." Then the flaming engine from Flight 180 crashes through the bar and crushes Nathan to death, ultimately revealing the film to be a prequel to the events of the original Final Destination.

It goes for a darker edge and leaves out the comedy of the previous instalments. This results in a lot more character development. A lot more for a Final Destination movie that is. The survivors seem to actually care about living, which at least gives us some connection as an audience. Unfortunately it lacks in the kills department. It sets up these elaborate death sequences on cartoon proportions, but decides to suddenly throw in something you didn't see coming. Usually this is something dull, like falling down or something falling on them. It kind of makes it an anticlimax. Again it tries to add a new rule to the franchise, where killing people adds their life to yours. Some kills are fun, but I actually stopped caring about how they were going to die. The only death that had me flinching was the gymnastic scene. The acting was fairly credible, but with so many deaths I still think people would act differently, possibly manic. Saw a little bit of this with the Christian Bale/Tom Cruise crossbreed guy. If you still want more after the last four, by all means you should see this.

I only liked the ending. The movie was just like the previous ones. Nothing new.

It's kinda a little shocking knowing this movie is related to the first Final Destination movie, they always had a better idea to make us the audiences surprised huh? The story itself still the same as the previous Final Destination series, a group of people saved from a tragic accident but what happen later are beyond their imagination : death are chasing them one by one.. The only difference is they can live if they kill another people, well it's not a bad idea.. The effects itself still have no difference with the fourth movie : brutal yet so fake, but that's okay with me.. Overall, it's still be an enjoyable movie to be watched, but just don't put any expectation while watching it because these actors still need more acting lesson..

The Final Destination 5 is a universal step from the previous film, but its still ends up being just another Final Destination film. The story follows a group of people who work together and during a retreat for work a guy named Sam (Nicholas D'Agosto) witnsses a bridge collapsing and al of them dying during it, and then the bridge does collapse but they all live. Then a strange turn of events start happening when al of the people that died in his dreams start dying one by one, and they have no way to stop it. The plot was completely like the o,ld ones, teens die one by one and we laugh our asses off on how stupid it is, so if your expecting a new versuion of it, run away now. The cast of teens are cheesy, stupid, and funny as hell to watch die, and thats what made them perfect, the director kept them the same type of stupid we loved from the first few movies. The bloody gore is okay, it had some really gory moments but not as much as we would hope for in a Final Destination, but when there was gory scene, people you better be ready to flinch and say"oooh, thats gotta hurt." The Final destination films have never been scary, they have been a comedy, and people its going to be a laugh riot to see these people die. Overall a major improvement since the last crap film, but still didn't do it for me, maybe one day they will make a installment where something different actually happens.

Death sets its aim for fresh young victims, in this surprisingly decent prequel, that ties in really well with the original. The creativity that goes into every killing has always been the strong point of these movies, and here they have even increased the shock value and stepped up the game a bit. One memorable scene in particular involves a cell phone, some fire, acupuncture needles and a Buddha statue. I'm not gonna reveal how those are combined into lethality, but it sure makes you think twice about taking a trip to the massage parlor. Watching it all in 3D made it that much more gruesome, and took the excitement to a whole new level (or should I say dimension). Script-wise, there's much to wish for, but let's be honest here - we're not watching these movies for the intricate dialogue. That would be like saying you go to a strip club for the socializing. Anyway, if you're looking for some brainless entertainment, that offers a lot of cool-looking visuals, then this horror entry is one of the most optimal of current movie-going choices. You probably won't feel any smarter afterwards, but you will leave the theatre with a somewhat satisfied look on your face. Well, that and a speck of lingering terror.

A Final Destination film with character development?? A Final Destination film with intense and suspenseful death scenes?? A Final Destination film that is thought provoking and asks questions about mortality, fate, and destiny? I must be dreaming. Apparently not, because Final Destination 5 is exactly all those things.
Where the previous sequels have maintained nothing more than consistent scenes that sensationalize death, Final Destination 5 actually makes you care for these victims. It contains scenes that would be nowhere to be found in the other four films that add depth to these characters. These are real people facing real life problems. It's such a bitch that Death is trying to get them. There's a hint of tragedy as this film hurtles to its climax.
Also excellent is the simplicity of the rules. The only way to cheat Death is to have someone take your place. There is no overcomplication of the rules like in the previous installments. This film keeps things simple by establishing and sticking to the rules without a last minute twist.
By no means should a fifth film in a horror franchise be this good. But good it is, and it provides much hope for this franchise, which I thought was DOA before buying my ticket.

This is surprisingly one of the best of the series. I enjoyed the characters as well as the couple of twists to the story that we were given. I've always said that this series was a great training ground for those who wanted to make films in the genre as it allows for some great creativity and fun. While there is a miss here and there this one is both creative in a lot of its death scenes as well as a lot of fun to watch.