Final Destination

Final Destination: Bloodlines

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  • Title: Final Destination: Bloodlines
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I know it’s a pretty low bar, but the latest Final Destination is actually the best Final Destination film. We kick things off with an extended 60s sequence centered around young lovers Iris (Brec Bassinger) and Paul (Max Lloyd-Jones) at the grand opening of the Skyview Restaurant Tower which ends in the spectacular deaths of dozens of people. Big kudos to co-directors Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein as both in terms of the period look, and in the complicated sequence of events. There’s a craft to Final Destination: Bloodlines that sets it apart from the earlier films.

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Final Destination 5

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  • Title: Final Destination 5
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To absolutely no one’s surprise, except apparently the makers of the film, centering the film around corporate assholes wasn’t the magic ingredient in fixing the devolving franchise. Final Destination 5 isn’t much of an improvement over the false advertising that already delivered us The Final Destination. Following the same set up as the rest of the franchise, Final Destination 5 starts with a bridge collapse which is survived by a handful of people thanks to the premonition of one member (Nicholas D’Agosto) of a group heading to a company retreat who manages to save some friends and strangers before his vision comes true. However, as we all know, Death isn’t about to be cheated.

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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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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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