Final Destination 5 (2011)

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

This is my favourite of all the films. For me it's very different from the other 4. It just has a different air to it. All the clues are there, but I just didn't see them, so I was completely blown away by the ending. Very good. I think this franchise is my favourite horror movie franchise as I really like all the films.

"Final Destination 5" adheres pretty closely to the formula established in the previous four films. Character A, in this case aspiring chef Sam (Nicholas D'Agosto, 'Gotham'), has a horrifying vision of a major catastrophe, and he and assorted others (who died during the vision) are frightened when they escape and witness the catastrophe actually taking place. They spend the rest of the film dying off in spectacular fashion, because as omnipresent coroner Bludworth (Tony "Candyman" Todd) likes to put it, "Death doesn't like to be cheated." They also have to wonder if it's at all possible to avoid what seems to be inevitable.This series still continues to be perversely entertaining in its over the top depictions of ultra-elaborate death set pieces, and the resulting cartoonish gore. It still plays that way at times, but at least writer Eric Heisserer (the "Thing" prequel) and director Steven Quale, the latter making his fictional feature debut, give us enough story and enough character detail to make our intended victims worth watching. They also make sure to give us little moments of foreshadowing that will pay off very soon. The filmmaking is slick, and the wholesale destruction of human bodies consistently offers amusement. One undeniable highlight is a case of laser eye surgery gone horribly wrong.Where this offers some truly interesting wrinkles is when: A) Peter Friedkin (Tom Cruise lookalike Miles Fisher, "J. Edgar") thinks he has a handle on solving his problem, and B) the denouement where events take a very circular turn. It rather reminded this viewer of the way the writers of the "Saw" sequels would go out of their way to tie events & characters together. But this was fairly clever, and appreciated.The cast is personable. D'Agosto and Emma Bell ('The Walking Dead') as his sweetie are likeable, P.J. Byrne ("The Wolf of Wall Street") is a hoot as an uber-sleazy moron, Arlen Escarpeta (the "Friday the 13th" reboot) is engaging, and there are also roles for veterans David Koechner ("Anchorman") and Courtney B. Vance ('Law & Order: Criminal Intent'), the latter playing an appropriately befuddled Federal agent.A reel of highlights from all the previous films precedes the end credits, and one has to feel that this fifth entry does provide a sense of closure...unless, of course, some producer or suit decides to resurrect the series at some point.Seven out of 10.

Many of you FD fans out there who'd been there since the first film probably wondered what as to the point of FD 5 (and by that I mean the point of making a 5th film to begin with and making it the way it had been made). FD 4 was excellent, resembling the first in its level. FD 5, on the other hand, felt like nothing more than an unapologetic attempt at squeezing the franchise for another few bucks.The plot has nothing of interest and nothing worth mentioning. The cast, the acting, all is adequately planned and executed, just like the previous films (good to see Candyman Tony Todd back in this one!) The only thing that should have given this film the edge and added value is its being a "prequel", but even that was poorly done. The ending does connect this film with the first film (and very nicely, I must say), but besides that - one of the key plot points is when the group realizes people are dying in the same order as they did in the premonition. Obviously this was for the sake of new watchers beginning to follow an anthology on its 5th film (there might 2 or 3 people like that, good for them then), but the rest of us had already known everything the characters "learnt" in the film.Besides the nice ending adding a sense of nostalgia and Todd's dominating presence (regardless to short screen time)? No point whatsoever in watching this except for crossing it off the list and unlocking the "watched all 5 FDs" achievement in your Horror scrapbook. Not bad, enjoyable at times, but unnecessary and not the least impressive. I feel bad that FD has to finish on such a low note instead of going out with a bang (as it would have had it ended with number 4 the way it should have had).

Death can't be cheated so you know what's coming next . Someone has a premonition of a disaster , they alert their friends . escape from the scene and find the disaster comes true and thank their lucky stars they escaped death . Next thing they know death comes for them in a series of cruel and graphic freak accidents There's not a lot of milage in this premise and there's an element that if you've seen one film you've seen them all . With FINAL DESTINATION 5 you spend much of the time feeling that the producers have become fed up with the franchise because the deaths show a lack of imagination . It sounds cruel and more than a little cynical but that's much of the selling point of the series being surprised as to how characters get killed and feeling something akin to enjoyment that the film makers have pulled the rug out from under you . It also suffers from the same fault as the previous instalment with having the gimmick of 3-D in order to shock the audience but it detracts from the impact of the deaths rather than embellish the impact . Another unimaginative element is the demographic where most of the characters are of a similar age . With hindsight the best film in the franchise is the second if only because the characters are much more diverse !!!! SUGGESTIVE SPOILERS !!!! As I said I spent most of the film thinking there's not much imagination to the proceedings and there's a suggestion you can escape death by killing someone in your place , a type of kill or be killed dilemma . A slightly desperate plot turn too since your dilemma is dying quickly or spending the rest of your natural life in an American maximum security prison so it's not really much of a dilemma . Then the producers play a blinder be having an ending I never saw coming in a million years and it's so simple and is a great way to finally wrap up the series which looks like ending with this movie