"Beware, when the wind blows"

Title: Final Destination 5

Year: 2011

Genre: Horror, Thriller

Director: Steven Quale

Writer: Eric Heisserer, Jeffrey Reddick (characters)

Runtime: 92min

Cast: Nicholas D'Agosto, Emma Bell, Arlen Escarpeta, Miles Fisher

Produc.: New Line Cinema, Practical Pictures, Parallel Zide, Jellystone Films

Budget: $40 million approx.

I had my doubts about whether I would or not, go to see this movie at the cinema. I had seen the trailer and so understood that this sequel would be something different from previous ones, to make it more appealing. Initially that was true, but the new ideas, not strong enough to cover up the many holes in a pretty bad script.

However, being a fan of morbidity, in the end I agreed to give it a try. Now I realize that I was too naive.

Final Destination 5 is once again the story of a group of friends, that thanks to that one of them has a vision, get saved from dying in a chain accident (in this case, a bridge collapses), only to be then stalked by death.

This is a nothing intelligent film, which returns to explode again the exact same elements of its four predecessors, except that as the series drags on, every new sequel keeps on lowering its level, when compared to the other ones.

In it can be seen the so distinguished Tony Todd, who reap fame, among other projects, for his part in the classic Candyman, and who has always been known for his great attachment to this type of films, although his movies seem in many cases, ridiculous jokes, not being this the exception to the rule. The african american actor reinterprets William Bludworth, a mortuary´s employee that appears to remove the stiffs, whenever someone has been taken away by death, and who is responsible for giving the kids a message to interpret, from which they must rely to get out alive. What is interesting though sad is that Todd is paid in order to walk in front of the cameras for a few minutes, always showing the same face, and with that striking and disturbing look of his, but without doing much else.

If there is anything in this movie that can be stand out, is that the deaths are still fairly well achieved, where the guts fly.

As for the negative aspects I can think of several, but not because they were overlooked, but because they were details that were beside the point. For example, when Sam (Nicholas D'Agsosto) has a vision that will save them at the beginning, the pavement starts cracking from nothing and the entire bridge falls apart in a few seconds, something that I found nothing credible, but as if it mattered! Or else, let the civil engineers correct me.

The other thing regrettable were the acting, because there is not one acceptable. But as a good spectator, true to the genre, I tried to pass it over to focus only on those who were dying.

The last thing I will criticize is the use of 3D, as I do not remember a single moment where I would say to myself "how good is that applied." Most of the time I even forgot that I was seeing it in that format, since as well as not contributing in any aspect, it made the movie ticket more expensive.

My rating: 2/10

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