The Final Destination is the fourth installment in the Final Destination franchise. It started back in 2000 with a pretty cool concept. If you’re on death’s list and it’s your turn to die, you can’t really escape death’s masterplan. Back then some guy had a premonition about a plane crash and started panicking. So he and his friends were forced off the plane which later exploded just like in his premonition. One by one the survivors then started to die violent deaths.
This was apparently a hit so the movies came coming. I’ve seen them all. But I thought I would remind myself about the quality and write something about those I haven’t written about yet.
So, for some reason, Final Destination 4 is named The Final Destination. I don’t know why. The story is similar to the others. In this, they tried something new though. Or rather, they hooked on the trend to make it in 3D. That was a cool concept back in the day I think but these days? Not so much. Especially if you watch the movies without the glasses. It’s really annoying when you see the obvious flirtations with the 3D concept and you can’t even see them.
As with its predecessors, with maybe an exception for the first one, there’s also a lot of flirtation with the methods that could potentially kill the characters. We get to see several ways that might end them off. Any one of them could start a chain of events with a fatal outcome. It’s quite funny to see how the event might or might not lead up the the demise of the characters. There’s a lot of red herrings here.
I was actually fooled a couple of times by clever ways of misleading my attention. There are some false premonitions, or double false premonitions maybe, and as I said, every potential way to cause death is not exploited.
However… You knew there would be one, right? I feel that The Final Destination – the fourth movie, is a little silly. There are entertaining deaths in all of these movies and there there are in this one as well. But the feel of the overall movie comes across as a little bit more “childish” for lack of a better term. It’s hard to really pinpoint it, but there is something about the production that really doesn’t make it up to par with the previous movies.
