The Final Destination

I won't waste too much time on this effort as this is the third sequel off the back of the thoroughly entertaining first film, Final Destination. Death is at it again, being all spooky and mysterious and like Arnie, "it will not stop, until you are dead".

So what does this fourth installemnt in the series have to say for itself? Well, quite a bit even if none of it approaches anything new or original. After you've seen one film full of gruesome deaths at the cruel hand of fate, you've pretty much seen them all.

The only difference is how many ways you can come up with lopping the top of someones head off or how imaginatively you can use a variety of apparently harmless household objects to brutally and savagely murder pretty american high school kids. Not such a bad thing, I hear you cry. People would pay good money to see th....

Hang on a minute?...

No, I'm only joking. The target audience rules out the possibility of the cinemas being full of grumpy old hairy nostrilled types pointing and laughing at the ineptitude of the youth of today, but it paints an amusing picture nonetheless. If you can imagine Statler and Waldorf let loose in a high school classroom with a couple of Uzi's, then you're probably already way ahead of me.

As previously mentioned, the film breaks no new ground in plot development, acting skills or cinematic beauty. The only changes of note are the players (all of the previous ones are dead I think, so they had to be new) and the ways in which fate picks them off, one by bloody, gory one. And in this respect, the film does show a certain amount of originality. We have already seen the Saw franchise buck it's preverbial ideas up this year, so it would be no great leap to expect other franchises to do the same. While it does come out of this as being rather inventive, the rest of this horrible effort to milk a franchise that was better off dead after the first film just wastes your time.

Chances are, if you are going to see the film or have been to see it already, you already have an idea of the content, so wouold hopefully go into it with no more expectation than you have done for the previous three. If so, you will indeed get exactly what you expected; young pretty lives, cut short. The acting is largely dreadful but the CGI does tend to make up for it in most places. On occasion, the truly awful do get their comeuppence, which is quite satisfying, but this no way makes up for the movies shortcomings, namely; everything else.

Really, don't bother yourself unless you have an insatiable cinematic bloodlust. For everyone else, a good hour and a half wasted.

The Final Destination? I doubt it....