Final Destination 5 was surely meant to be the Final Destination (haha) of the series. Don’t get me wrong. I loved the latest installment – Final Destination: Bloodlines! But if you think back to this part in the series you realize that this was actually the perfect film to end everything in. Final Destination 5 goes full circle and acts as a standalone movie, as well as a prequel to the very first movie. It’s kind of subtle but it’s not hard to understand the connection.
As in the previous parts, a guy is having a premonition about an accident that’s about to happen. He wakes up at the exact right moment, panics, and saves several people who would surely have died otherwise. And as we all know by now, there’s no way to escape death. If you survived what was meant to be, that only brings you closer to another violent death.
As in some of the other parts, we get fooled a few times. We see all the signs and we think we have Death’s plan figured out. And sometimes we do. But then again, sometimes we dontä We might understand that the details we keep seeing will have something to do with it but not necessarily where in the chain of events they fit in.
The deaths in Final Destination 5
The deaths are gruesome for sure. That goes with the series but still, I think it gets a little boring and tedious at times. That’s strange because I also think that some of the deaths occur a little bit too fast. Or rather that the time between them is a little bit fast. To me, it seems like the focus is on the killing solely and that we forget to build some tension in-between them.
Tony Todd once again makes a guest appearance. I think this might be the creepiest of his appearances. But also the most logical one. I’m not sure if he plays the same part as he did in the previous parts. I know that he was voice only in the rollercoaster one and in one of the other a pathologist. He’s a coroner here so I guess that makes sense. Let’s say he plays the same part. It makes sense but there’s also no real need for him to have a part in Final Destination 5. In fact, in this particular part, I see him more as Candyman than ever.
It’s a decent film, and If you enjoyed the previous parts you’d probably enjoy this to some extent too. There are no real surprises, what you see is what you get. It’s a concept that exist by it’s own very special rules!
