#Final Destination 5 (movie review)
Dänk 42Ø
whole time, and the freak accidents were especially startling and gruesome in 3D.
The plot is the same as the previous four movies: A group of young people avoids a horrific
accident after one of them, Sam, dozes off and has a vision, waking up just before the incident
and allowing them to escape just in time. In this case, they avoid a spectacular bridge
collapse which kills 17 of their co-workers.
Spoiler Alert: scroll down to read the rest
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One by one, each of the survivors is killed in a freak accident. First, a gymnastics fall that
breaks the girl (Candice, Peter's girlfriend) backwards, with bones sticking out -- so gross.
The next one, a nerdy jerk named Isaac, dies in a massage parlor; after surviving a fall that
impales him with acupuncture needles and a flash fire caused by a candle falling on a puddle of
rubbing alcohol, his head is crushed by a falling Buddha whose belly he mockingly rubbed on the
way in.
A mysterious man who turns out to be the coroner tells them he's seen this before, that they
can't cheat Death and that each of them will die unless they find another person to take their
place. Sam then realizes that each person has died in the same order that occurred in his
vision, and that Olivia is next. They rush to an ophthalmologist's office, where Olivia is in
the process of being dissected by an unattended LASIK machine (ultimately it is a slip and fall
out of a window that kills her, with a cool scene of her eyeball rolling across the ground and
getting run over by a car).
The fourth, a black guy who is the supervisor in the company's factory, gets into a fight with a
belligerent subordinate just as a very large industrial hook falls, causing the worker to get
impaled instead of him. He feels relieved, since according to the coroner's warning, this means
he has traded places, balancing the books and allowing him to live the remainder of the other
person's life.
The pointy-haired boss is next, after he arrives on the factory floor to ask what happened.
Hardly any time to build the suspense before a wrench falls into a machine and is hurled through
his head like a bullet.
Peter, dead Candice's distraught boyfriend and the sixth to get killed in Sam's vision, is now
starting to panic. Inspired by the black guy's survival, he decides the only way to save
himself is to trade places with the only member of the group who survived in the vision, Sam's
girlfriend, Molly. Peter pulls out a gun and starts chasing them through a restaurant. The
viewer is expecting several freak accidents, but Peter is ultimately killed when Sam skewers
him. It should be noted that Sam moonlights as a chef at this restaurant, and has just taken an
apprenticeship in Paris.
Sam and Molly are still alive: Sam thinks his vision means he wasn't supposed to die, and Molly
never died in the vision. They board a plane to Paris just as some kid is being dragged off the
plane screaming, with several of his friends accompanying him. Sam looks at his airplane ticket
and it is dated March 13, 2000 (you suddenly realize what this means). As they take off, a
passenger asks the flight attendant what the kid was screaming about, and she said it was just a
panic attack, that he said he had some kind of "vision."
The plane takes off and explodes, but not after we get to see it breaking up and passengers
getting sucked out, including Molly, who is cut in half by the wing, and Sam who is burned alive
by the flames). The scene cuts to a bar where the black guy is attending a memorial for the
dead guy he traded places with. Someone tells him that he shouldn't feel too bad, because the
autopsy revealed an enlarged blood vessel in his brain that would have burst in a few days had
he not died in the accident. His eyes widen (oh, shit!), and the wreckage from the 747 crashes
through the roof and kills him.
The End.
PS: If I had to criticize anything about the movie, it is actor Miles Fisher (Peter), who is a
good enough actor, but looks disturbingly like Tom Cruise -- the douche and Scientologist who
jumps on Oprah's couch. Tom Cruise pisses me off!
(¯`·.¸ Craig Chilton ¸.·´¯) <http://www.TravelForPay.org>
Dänk 42Ø <dänk@nugget.örg> wrote:
> I just saw Final Destination 5 and loved it! The suspense kept
> me on the edge of my seat the whole time, and the freak accidents
> were especially startling and gruesome in 3D.
Likewise all the way. By far, the BEST of the "F.D." series! Sequels
sometimes are flops, but NOT in THIS series. The opening scenes were
especially excellent! This one's spectacular, and I'm glad that they now
are being done in 3-D! I wish they'd make ALL movies in 3-D! (This IS,
after all, the 21st century -- and it took Hollywood 60 years to get BACK
to the excellent thing they'd already discovered in the early 1950s!
What a WASTE of those intervening 60 years!!)
> The plot is the same as the previous four movies: A group of young
> people avoids a horrific accident after one of them, Sam, dozes off and
> has a vision, waking up just before the incident and allowing them to
> escape just in time. In this case, they avoid a spectacular bridge
> collapse which kills 17 of their co-workers.
>
> Spoiler Alert: scroll down to read the rest
[[[ See previous post to read that, if you wish. ]]]
> ...airplane ticket ... dated March 13, 2000 (you suddenly realize
> what this means).
I do??? I noticed that date, and simply was puzzled that the movie's
producers would want to make it appear that it was set more than a
decade in the past. Did anything significant happen on 3-13-00 that
could tie in with the movie? Was that when the FIRST "F.D." was made?
And thus could have been THAT plane?
BTW-- your spoiler was SO detailed, it could have been the film's
entire SCRIPT! You either (1) have a photographic memory, (2) found
that elsewhere on the net and then provided it here, or (3) took such
massive notes during the flick that it's amazing you had any chance to
enjoy it. Which?
Dänk 42Ø
> Dänk 42Ø<dänk@nugget.örg> wrote:
>> ...airplane ticket ... dated March 13, 2000 (you suddenly realize
>> what this means).
>
> I do??? I noticed that date, and simply was puzzled that the movie's
> producers would want to make it appear that it was set more than a
> decade in the past. Did anything significant happen on 3-13-00 that
> could tie in with the movie? Was that when the FIRST "F.D." was made?
> And thus could have been THAT plane?
The year 2000 made me remember that was the year the original FD was released, though IMDB lists
the release date as March 17, 2000 (maybe I read it wrong?). Suddenly I remembered the first
one starts off with a group of high school kids boarding a plane to Paris.
Sam was right: He and Molly were not supposed to die in the bridge collapse, they were supposed
to die in the airplane explosion.
>
> BTW-- your spoiler was SO detailed, it could have been the film's
> entire SCRIPT! You either (1) have a photographic memory, (2) found
> that elsewhere on the net and then provided it here, or (3) took such
> massive notes during the flick that it's amazing you had any chance to
> enjoy it. Which?
I composed the review by myself, and only consulted IMDB for the character names (I'm terrible
at remembering names). I also drank a Red Bull I smuggled in during the movie (the caffeine and
adrenaline still haven't worn off).
(¯`·.¸ Craig Chilton ¸.·´¯) <http://www.TravelForPay.org>
Dänk 42Ø <dänk@nugget.örg> wrote:
> (¯`·.¸ Craig Chilton ¸.·´¯)
> <http://www.TravelForPay.org> wrote:
>> Dänk 42Ø<dänk@nugget.örg> wrote:
>>> ...airplane ticket ... dated March 13, 2000 (you suddenly realize
>>> what this means).
>> I do??? I noticed that date, and simply was puzzled that the movie's
>> producers would want to make it appear that it was set more than a
>> decade in the past. Did anything significant happen on 3-13-00 that
>> could tie in with the movie? Was that when the FIRST "F.D." was made?
>> And thus could have been THAT plane?
>
> The year 2000 made me remember that was the year the original FD was
> released, though IMDB lists the release date as March 17, 2000 (maybe I
> read it wrong?). Suddenly I remembered the first one starts off with a
> group of high school kids boarding a plane to Paris.
What do you wanna bet that that was supposed to be the SAME plane,
and that the students who got off of it were supposed to be those SAME
ones from the fist flick? What a NEAT tie-in!
> Sam was right: He and Molly were not supposed to die in the bridge
> collapse; they were supposed to die in the airplane explosion.
>> BTW-- your spoiler was SO detailed, it could have been the film's
>> entire SCRIPT! You either (1) have a photographic memory, (2) found
>> that elsewhere on the net and then provided it here, or (3) took such
>> massive notes during the flick that it's amazing you had any chance to
>> enjoy it. Which?
> I composed the review by myself, and only consulted IMDB for the
> character names (I'm terrible at remembering names). I also drank a
> Red Bull I smuggled in during the movie (the caffeine and adrenaline still
> haven't worn off).
LOL!! I smuggle Mountain Dew and candy in, every single time! I will
NEVER get ripped off by those concession prices!
And as a senior, I get in for only $4! (I learned back when I was 56
that they never card people who claim to be seniors, if they are ANY-
WHERE near the age of 62 -- and that that works as well on this end of
the spectrum as it does for 14-year-olds who can still pass for being
11-1/2, on the other end. (Flicks are 'WAY overpriced these days, so it's
only fair to turn the tables on that if possible. SHORT of sneaking in.)