Saturday, September 24, 2011

Day 204: "I've been trying to kill myself all day."

Lord knows why I decided to watch this, I guess it was the only watchable thing on at two in the morning.  The Final Destination is the forth in the dismal franchise.  To tell the truth, this was nothing more than an excuse to kill people in new, imaginative and disgusting ways.  Saw, as a franchise, could have the same things said about it, but at least in that series, there was a face to put to the evil and some genuine attempt at story.  The Final Destination is nothing more than a montage of gruesome and elaborate death sequences held together under the illusion of "premonitions" and "visions", and then, having escaped from the highly staged and orchestrated gorefest, the characters then start dying in new and, not-so-clever ways.  This is the only series that I have watched where they tell you exactly who is going to die, when they're going to die and precisely how they are going to die.  Predictably boring and uninspired to the last scene.

In terms of stars here, there are no recognizable celebrities here, unless you are a huge fan of Forrest Gump and liked Mykelti Williamson as Bubba.  He's it in The Final Destination.  Really.  Have you ever heard of or seen anything else with Bobby Campo, Shantel VanSanten, or Haley Webb?  Yeah, me neither.

In conclusion, avoid this.  Even if you are a fan of the Final Destination series, this is an unmitigated disaster.  I don't mean in the good way that might make this movie bearable, either.  It's really bad.  The only redeeming quality is the occasional gore, but that's it.  They even screw that up (a girl's leg, below the knee is mangled.  The next shot is her coughing up copious amounts of blood.  What?).  Miss it.  2.5/10.

See you tomorrow, and GO WATCH A MOVIE!!

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