FINAL DESTINATION 5
Couch Reviewer
3 Stars
***
What can be said about the Final Destination series other than, "creepy?" The final piece of the destination series leaves a little to be desired. The other movies had people that it was easy to relate to or have a minor connection to, not in this one. The film is hard to follow and seems randomly put together. They are on a business retreat on a bus crossing a suspension bridge when all hell breaks loose, literally. The confusing part is that we thought they all worked for this paper company, Presage, but yet one guy is a chef, another worked in a factory, we had a gymnast.... um, what? On top of that, the rules changed, in the previous movies, the only thing that "saved" someone was if they were skipped because someone else saved them, forcing Death to move onto the next in line. In this movie they have added the stipulation that if you kill some innocent, you get their life and whatever number of years they have left. Not that it really helped anyone is this film. I won't give out the spoiler. The first films leave your skin crawling and makes you be extra careful for awhile afterward, but this one just tried to find the worst possible ways for people to die. Aside from the rule changes and the plot, and character likeability, the movie drags on forever! The beginning is slow, the middle is slow, they spent too much time trying to build up the suspense prior to the first girl dying that I was bored to tears. It picks up toward the end, and then its too late, its the end. We see The CandyMan resume his role as the creepy mortician who knows all about Death's plan. For the end of the series of films, it seems pretty haphazard and the actors/actresses are a bunch of people you don't recognize except for their boss who falls into that category of "hey its that guy" because you only recognize him by his face not by anything substantial he's done. It's an okay movie but doesn't live up to its prequels in the "creepy" department.
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