The Final Destination

Hi,

The Final Destination 3D was last night’s film. It was directed by David R. Ellis, (Final Destination 2) and starred Bobby Campo, Shantel VanSanten (One Tree Hill),
Nick Zano, Haley Webb and Mykelti Williamson (Con Air).

The 4th in the series and it feels like it too, the film as usually starts with a major disaster seen moments before it actually happens by Nick (Campo), who manages to usher his friends and a few bystanders to safety before the fatal accident. As always Death isn’t going to let these survivors have a 2nd chance and so each in turn meets his or her end, usually in a pretty gory way.

Now I do like these films, they are not great, but they are mildly entertaining, but the 4th instalment was just too much of the same. Fine - follow the formula, escape death, then realise people are dying in the order they should die, try to prevent it.
But at least come up with a few more exciting death sequences, and here lies the main problem for me. Aside from the wooden acting, the poor script and lack of tension, the film just limped from average death scene to average death scene. We all know the outcome, at least let us enjoy the trip, ramp up the gore, and maybe give us something unexpected.
The only good thing about the film was the 3D, never used over the top, it added a little more too each death but wasn’t enough to save the film in the end.

Overall it was ok, the 3D just about giving it a little more edge, but not enough to get past the poor script, average acting and some pretty poor death sequences.
It would have been 4 but the 3d gives it one more.

(5/10 – Average)