sebijin
I think Final Destination 5 might be my favorite Final Destination film. If not, it's neck-and-neck with the original.Unlike the fourth film, this one has some really likable characters, similar to the first two films. The deaths involved in this one were extremely elaborate and interesting and the ending involved a gigantic bamboozle that I still get goosebumps over.Made 11 years after the first one, you can see how much the franchise has changed and grown and while the fourth one was bad, the fifth one made the franchise fresh again.I almost want a new Final Destination film. Almost.Definitely watch this one if you enjoyed the first, but watch the first one - first.
doafan-34916
All 5 movies were intriguing and very interesting. It kept me guessing throughout each movie who would die next but I was never right on who would die. The only thing I could figure out was the character Bludworth. The way he shows up and gives them advise on how to cheat death. I knew that he had to be death himself as he knew their names with out them telling them their names and the way in the second movie how Claire seemed to know him? Makes you kind of wonder, doesn't it
Nitzan Havoc
Many of you FD fans out there who'd been there since the first film probably wondered what as to the point of FD 5 (and by that I mean the point of making a 5th film to begin with and making it the way it had been made). FD 4 was excellent, resembling the first in its level. FD 5, on the other hand, felt like nothing more than an unapologetic attempt at squeezing the franchise for another few bucks.The plot has nothing of interest and nothing worth mentioning. The cast, the acting, all is adequately planned and executed, just like the previous films (good to see Candyman Tony Todd back in this one!) The only thing that should have given this film the edge and added value is its being a "prequel", but even that was poorly done. The ending does connect this film with the first film (and very nicely, I must say), but besides that - one of the key plot points is when the group realizes people are dying in the same order as they did in the premonition. Obviously this was for the sake of new watchers beginning to follow an anthology on its 5th film (there might 2 or 3 people like that, good for them then), but the rest of us had already known everything the characters "learnt" in the film.Besides the nice ending adding a sense of nostalgia and Todd's dominating presence (regardless to short screen time)? No point whatsoever in watching this except for crossing it off the list and unlocking the "watched all 5 FDs" achievement in your Horror scrapbook. Not bad, enjoyable at times, but unnecessary and not the least impressive. I feel bad that FD has to finish on such a low note instead of going out with a bang (as it would have had it ended with number 4 the way it should have had).
BA_Harrison
There are very few long-running horror franchises where I can happily say that I have enjoyed every single chapter, but that is definitely the case with the wonderfully dumb and delightfully gory Final Destination series; admittedly that's probably because each successive sequel has been almost virtually identical in format to the enjoyable original, setting the stage with a spectacular disaster and allowing death to do the rest, but I have enjoyed them nevertheless.Part 5 certainly doesn't stray far from the formula. Barring one new plot device—the kill or be killed rule—and couple of twists that, if you've been paying attention, you may very well guess, this is business as usual: a group of people narrowly avoid being killed but find that their reprieve is only temporary while Death gets its act together. As always, expertly orchestrated and spectacularly gory demises await them all, and this time they're even bloodier than before!If, like me, you have enjoyed the previous instalments in this popular series, then it's almost certain that this one will also satisfy your yearning for inventive deaths and over the top splatter. I only hope that they keep 'em coming 'cos I'm not done yet.
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