Post by Mickey on Sept 29, 2009 18:55:54 GMT -5
I'm writing a movie review each week for the college newspaper, so I figured I would share them with you guys as well.
There are times when you watch a movie and think to yourself that the preview did not correctly portray what was to be expected in the showing. The preview for “The Final Destination” is not one of those times as it is an accurate depiction of the actual movie. It consists primarily of explosions and death with a smidge given to plot. This is okay, because if you’ve seen any of the previous three movies, then you already know what the plot is, which is Death trying to collect on a few stragglers who didn’t die in the opening scenes like they were supposed to as a small group of young adults tries to break the chain before it’s too late.
In case you’d forgotten that Death is apparently a Theatre major with a flair for the dramatic, much like how the state of Kentucky has a flair for college basketball and Cincinnati sport teams, the opening credits are made up of flashbacks to people dying in the previous movies. However, these death scenes are rather tame compared to what happens in this movie.
In the preceding Final Destination movies, you get the sense of Death as malevolent, yet somewhat sentient, force. Director David R. Ellis personifies it a bit more than it had been and almost makes Death into a sentient being instead of just some life stealing force of nature. It’s not hard to imagine Death sitting in a barca lounger, sipping its beverage of choice, while watching his plans unfold. Kind of like an evil supervillain, only Death’s plans actually work.
The target demographic for “The Final Destination” is those who are fans of blood, gore, and explosions on the silver screen. Even if that’s you, you’ll probably end up just as disappointed as those who enjoy things like plot and character development (both of which had small cameos here and there but nothing big,) because a handful of these scenes turn out to be nothing more than visions of lead Nick O’Bannon (Bobby Campo) and don’t actually happen. For several of these, Death sets in motion a rather strange, by which I mean convoluted and needlessly complicated, series of events that turn out to not actually be the cause of death. It ends up being some trifle little thing. It would be like if your mom called you and told you she was sending you a care package, so you get all excited wondering what kind of goodies await. Then you open the box to find a roll of quarters, some Tide, and a note saying, “Do your own laundry. I’m your mom not your maid.”
The movie was only about an hour and a half long, but it sill couldn’t end soon enough. I’m not a fan of watching people die, but I found myself rooting for Death to finish the characters off rather quickly. None of the actors were anything special either. None. It’s as if they graduated from the Keanu Reeves School of Acting.
For the most part, this film is just like its predecessors as originality is another character that did not get much a role in this film. Overall, the movie was not worth watching, and I regret not driving to Lexington to see Sorority Row. I’m giving this movie two stars, but only because I do enjoy watching stuff blow when I’m not actively blowing something up myself.
There are times when you watch a movie and think to yourself that the preview did not correctly portray what was to be expected in the showing. The preview for “The Final Destination” is not one of those times as it is an accurate depiction of the actual movie. It consists primarily of explosions and death with a smidge given to plot. This is okay, because if you’ve seen any of the previous three movies, then you already know what the plot is, which is Death trying to collect on a few stragglers who didn’t die in the opening scenes like they were supposed to as a small group of young adults tries to break the chain before it’s too late.
In case you’d forgotten that Death is apparently a Theatre major with a flair for the dramatic, much like how the state of Kentucky has a flair for college basketball and Cincinnati sport teams, the opening credits are made up of flashbacks to people dying in the previous movies. However, these death scenes are rather tame compared to what happens in this movie.
In the preceding Final Destination movies, you get the sense of Death as malevolent, yet somewhat sentient, force. Director David R. Ellis personifies it a bit more than it had been and almost makes Death into a sentient being instead of just some life stealing force of nature. It’s not hard to imagine Death sitting in a barca lounger, sipping its beverage of choice, while watching his plans unfold. Kind of like an evil supervillain, only Death’s plans actually work.
The target demographic for “The Final Destination” is those who are fans of blood, gore, and explosions on the silver screen. Even if that’s you, you’ll probably end up just as disappointed as those who enjoy things like plot and character development (both of which had small cameos here and there but nothing big,) because a handful of these scenes turn out to be nothing more than visions of lead Nick O’Bannon (Bobby Campo) and don’t actually happen. For several of these, Death sets in motion a rather strange, by which I mean convoluted and needlessly complicated, series of events that turn out to not actually be the cause of death. It ends up being some trifle little thing. It would be like if your mom called you and told you she was sending you a care package, so you get all excited wondering what kind of goodies await. Then you open the box to find a roll of quarters, some Tide, and a note saying, “Do your own laundry. I’m your mom not your maid.”
The movie was only about an hour and a half long, but it sill couldn’t end soon enough. I’m not a fan of watching people die, but I found myself rooting for Death to finish the characters off rather quickly. None of the actors were anything special either. None. It’s as if they graduated from the Keanu Reeves School of Acting.
For the most part, this film is just like its predecessors as originality is another character that did not get much a role in this film. Overall, the movie was not worth watching, and I regret not driving to Lexington to see Sorority Row. I’m giving this movie two stars, but only because I do enjoy watching stuff blow when I’m not actively blowing something up myself.
