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How entertaining? ★★★★☆
Thought provoking? ★☆☆☆☆ 24 August 2011
This article is a review of FINAL DESTINATION 5. |
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“Who dies during a massage? Seriously” Molly.
The first thing I wrote in my notes in the dark was, “loads of sh*t coming at you”. Little did I anticipate that the film would go beyond the gimmicky credits and turn into a gory laugh-filled riot. I was laughing with the film, and not at it. Hard to believe perhaps for a fourth sequel. The filmmakers upped the ante with the inventiveness; teasing and terrifying you with the pleasure and pain of girding yourself for what is coming. Don’t worry, for those that don’t like the torture porn subgenre, this is no HOSTEL. Sadism can be fun right? The audience certainly seemed to be having a blast. Actually a down note for the moment, this does share certain similarities with HOSTEL – poor dialogue and weak characterisation. Come on people, make a bit of effort! You’ve got the thrills right, imagine if we actually cared about the cannon fodder how much more fun this might’ve been.
We start with breakfast before a corporate team-building trip. The main guy gets dumped, and each of the leads are clunkily introduced with wooden dialogue along the lines of, “I’ll win him over if it kills me”. As they board the bus, and the TV shows an advert for where they are heading, I thought this could be fun – ripping it out of a tedious work jaunt. Instead FINAL DESTINATION 5 goes for making places of work and errands death traps; which is really what you want, to make the regular scary (or probably don’t want actually). The exception to the relative norm is the initial spectacular melee on a suspension bridge.
Oh yeah, and the ending really impressed me.
The first thing I wrote in my notes in the dark was, “loads of sh*t coming at you”. Little did I anticipate that the film would go beyond the gimmicky credits and turn into a gory laugh-filled riot. I was laughing with the film, and not at it. Hard to believe perhaps for a fourth sequel. The filmmakers upped the ante with the inventiveness; teasing and terrifying you with the pleasure and pain of girding yourself for what is coming. Don’t worry, for those that don’t like the torture porn subgenre, this is no HOSTEL. Sadism can be fun right? The audience certainly seemed to be having a blast. Actually a down note for the moment, this does share certain similarities with HOSTEL – poor dialogue and weak characterisation. Come on people, make a bit of effort! You’ve got the thrills right, imagine if we actually cared about the cannon fodder how much more fun this might’ve been.
We start with breakfast before a corporate team-building trip. The main guy gets dumped, and each of the leads are clunkily introduced with wooden dialogue along the lines of, “I’ll win him over if it kills me”. As they board the bus, and the TV shows an advert for where they are heading, I thought this could be fun – ripping it out of a tedious work jaunt. Instead FINAL DESTINATION 5 goes for making places of work and errands death traps; which is really what you want, to make the regular scary (or probably don’t want actually). The exception to the relative norm is the initial spectacular melee on a suspension bridge.
Oh yeah, and the ending really impressed me.
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