Only Two things are Certain...

The Final Destination

The Final Destination follows the story of Death's latest List Skippers. A group of four sit within the audience of a NASCAR style Stock Car race, one of which loudly admits to only being there in hopes of a crash. The main character Nick has a vision of such a crash, so horrible it kills dozens of people including him and his friends. Distraught, he quickly rushes his friends and a few bystanders out of the Speedway, in which moments later the vision comes true. Shortly after they find that Death is stalking them, picking them off in the order they should have died in during the accident.


Lets get right down to this and not beat around the bush... The Final Destination, as opposed to Final Destination 4, is a gore porn. It serves no real merit as a Horror or Thriller movie. People who follow the series KNOW the characters are going to die, and expect it en mass. Now there's nothing wrong with that, Splatter Spectacles like Hostel or The Hills Have Eyes do a wonderful job of showing you grotesquery and making you squirm in your seat at it. But this?

The movie is littered with bad CGI, scenes that scream "this is supposed to be in 3D", and pretty bland death scenes. I'm not joking, the deaths in this are pretty boring and tame compared to the others save for maybe two. And when you're making such a blatant Spectacle Horror like this, your audience is expecting the absurd.

One thing that personally bugged me was the huge Red Herring in the middle of the movie (there are several red herrings throughout...) Where an entire death scene set up is thrown away with no payoff, only to lead to the actual death scene which is utterly forgettable. This wouldn't be so bad if they hadn't shown a can of hairspray sliding across the counter, moved by death, and then have it accumulate to nothing.

Towards the end of the movie, the story goes so far as to break it's own rules, completely negating the 'order of death' staple the series had had since the beginning in favor of a large climactic end, in which it's best death is used, and then completely negated.

The creators have stated that this is the last Final Destination movie, which implies some sort of culmination, a climax of the entire series as opposed to just another group of people trying to outwit a personified concept. This does come, sort of. It's a quickly uttered and easy to miss line at the climax of the film, a character postulating that maybe everything is Death's design, completely negating the entire point of the entire Final Destination series.

Though do to the success of this film (most likely due to the fact that it was a Gore Porn in 3D) there have been talks of continuing... Though I quite honestly feel the series should have ended shortly before Final Destination 3 went into production.

The Final Destination comes to DVD on the Fifth, it's competent for it's genre and has a few good spectacles, but is completely forgettable with no lasting impression...