The Final Destination: DVD Review
The Final Destination
Rating: R16
Cast:
Bobby Campo, Shantel VanSanten, Mykelti
Williamson
Released by Roadshow Entertainment
When Nick O'Bannon (Campo) gets premonitions at the local
speedway of a whole heap of deaths thanks to a speeding flaming car
hitting the grandstand, he manages to get himself, his friends and
a few bystanders out of the park before it's too late.
Just seconds after they've vacated the track, catastrophe strikes
and over 50 lose their lives as the envisaged accident takes place
escape. However, with one of the bystanders killed within hours of
the race track carnage, and thanks to a little help from the
worldwide web, it soon becomes clear to Nick and his friends that
their cards are marked and death is going to find them one way or
another.
The Final Destination franchise lurches on with yet another tale of
teens in peril - this time though, death's saved 3D as its
preferred method of dispatching people. There's little to offer in
the way of character development, plot or anything sensible - but
for this franchise which started a decade ago, it's never really
been about anything other than the deaths.
And while the use of this new digital technology sees some very
impressive Bond style opening credits which mesh all the previous
deaths from prior films, it soon resorts to having you duck and
squirm in your seat as various deathly implements head towards you
in the cinema. However, half the problem of this film lies with its
characters.
Obviously underdeveloped and with little back story or attitudes
which make you like them, it makes it difficult to care about any
of those the Grim Reaper has his eye on. Even one of the main
leads, an airhead jock, is so unlikeable that you don't really care
when he meets his maker.
Mercifully short and with the 2D and 3D versions included in this
release, there will be some who will absolutely love it - and there
will be others (myself included) who hope this really is the end of
the franchise.
Rating: 5/10
