Campo and VanSanten's performances are more than passable, engaging even, and Death's many wiles are as shocking and bloody as ever.
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Don't get me wrong, I'd be just as dissatisfied if too many answers were provided - other ongoing series have tried to address their beasties' origins and failed miserably - but some more pieces to the puzzle would have gone a long way toward making the fourth film a more three-dimensional sequel.Īh well. What entity is attempting to intervene and save these doomed souls? Is it a separate being or another aspect of Death itself? And why is it trying to help if the order of the universe is destined to prevail? Is the conflict a clash of cosmic forces? A time-twisting oddity? A supernatural game of cat and mouse? Or are these bizarre, otherworldly dominoes nothing more than a thinly veiled macguffin designed to keep a franchise afloat? Alas, The Final Destination offers fewer hints about the nature of the overarching story than any other entry in the series to date, abandoning any promise of closure and drawing out the mystery ad nauseum.
Even four films in it's still entirely unclear why the series' main characters, Nick being the mythos' latest prophet, receive visions of the future if Death is such an unbeatable, unrelenting foe. Inevitability rules the day without mercy, tucking everyone snuggly in their graves.īut therein lies the problem. There's never a chance of escape no hint of hope no shot at winning. But the allure of every Final Destination film remains intact: watching gasoline, nail guns, burners, pennies, faulty sunroofs, and discarded eyeglasses align for the sole purpose of dropping a knife, hurling a stone, or lopping the head off a scrambling survivor. And naturally, the twenty-somethings desperately attempt to thwart Death's plans, often to no avail. Naturally, a parade of expendable stand-ins meet an untimely end long before our college-aged protagonists are placed in legitimate danger - seemingly for no other reason than to give Nick and his friends ample time to deduce and anticipate their own fates. When an eerie premonition allows Nick to save several people from a tragic racecar crash and subsequent arena collapse, Death comes knocking, bound and determined to claim every soul He missed the first time around. The unwitting, nearly interchangeable young people caught in Death's ambiguous design this time around include future-peeping Nick (Bobby Campo), his girlfriend Lori (Shantel VanSanten), his cocky best friend Hunt (Nick Zano), and the group's superstitious tag-along Janet (Haley Webb). "Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?" Yes, its characters are more disposable than ever, its story is more of a step backward than that of Final Destination 3, and the finality of its misleading title is only good for a laugh (as if we're to believe a franchise that's earned $470 million box office bucks won't have a fifth outing), but where else can you see elaborate, Rube Goldberg deathtraps catch dozens of hapless victims unawares? Far from great cinema, far from the unpredictable jolt that was the series' original entry, The Final Destination is nevertheless as fun and self-deprecating as a shallow sequel could be. But for some inexplicable reason, the Final Destination franchise - now four profitable films strong - continues to entertain me, even when tossing a batch of fresh faces into an increasingly familiar genre grinder.
Reviewed by Kenneth Brown, December 28, 2009Īs a self-proclaimed horror junkie and snob, I tend to reject derivative series sequels as readily as I embrace newer, more inventive fare. More gore than you'll find at a climate change conference. The Final Destination in 3-D Blu-ray Review
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