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The Final Destination

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  • Title: The Final Destination
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The fourth installment to the franchise is hardly distinguishable from the fifth (which would put the franchise on hiatus for more than a decade). Offering no standout performances or all that memorable deaths, The Final Destination is just plain bad. Our big event, which a handful of characters avoid, is a car crash at a racecourse filmed in ways mostly to make the debris shoot out towards the audience in 3D. The utterly bland Nick (Bobby Campo) is responsible for saving a few of his friends and some strangers before the carnage takes everyone else. Then Death begins targeting the survivors (Nick Zano, Shantel VanSanten, Haley Webb, Justin Welborn, Mykelti Williamson, and Krista Allen) one by one.

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Lilo & Stich

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  • Title: Lilo & Stitch
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While its themes fit quite easily into the Disney canon, from a story perspective Lilo & Stitch was a major departure from your typical Disney film during the studio’s more experimental period of the early 2000s. The film focuses on an escaped alien creation of mass destruction who finds acceptance and family on Earth. Renamed Stitch (Chris Sanders) by a lonely young Hawaiian girl named Lilo (Daveigh Chase) who mistakes him for a dog, the concept by co-writer/co-director Chris Sanders explores friendship and family through their unlikely pairing.

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Final Destination 3

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  • Title: Final Destination 3
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Final Destination 3 is proof that a strong lead and a fun concept will only take you so far. Featuring a similar set up to the first two films of the franchise, a group is saved dying in a roller-coaster accident by the premonition of Wendy Christensen (Mary Elizabeth Winstead). The survivors then begin to die to odd occurrences throughout the film which are increasingly elaborate, gorier and more mean-spirited, less amusing, and far less fun with every entry into the franchise. You don’t have to look past the airheads (Chelan Simmons and Yan-Kay Crystal Lowe) dying in the tanning salon during an overly-drawn out sequence to see this film isn’t going to end any better for the audience than it does for Death’s victims.

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Final Destination 2

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  • Title: Final Destination 2
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An approvement over the original, Final Destination 2 brings back the same concept with a group of people avoiding death due to the premonition of one character. However, they are continued to be stalked by Death (who never takes physical form but attacks by putting complex sequences of events in motion) throughout the film one by one. As with the original, characters attempt to read the signs as to who is next on the hitlist and avoid their spot in line.

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Timecop

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  • Title: Timecop
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The highest-grossing film of Jean-Claude Van Damme‘s career, Timecop stars the kickboxing action star as an officer of the Time Enforcement Commission who attempt to prevent those from misusing time travel now that it has been discovered. Aside from a few flashes here and there in the past (the machine only allows you to travel backwards and then return to your own time), the film primarily takes place in two time periods. We get the early 90s where Max and his wife (Mia Sara) are attacked prior to him ever joining the TEC, and we get the near-future or present (ten years later) where Max is a more grizzled veteran of the agency.

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