When the creators of this slick horror franchise announced in 2009 that The Final Destination was going to be the final movie in the series the only people who believed them were people who knew nothing about the films, never saw any of them and probably never will. The fans, who have cheered the Rube Goldberg style of murder and mayhem they’ve been enjoying for the past decade, knew if The Final Destination made money, the series would continue. And so it did. This time, the story is a prequel of sorts to the original film, but the plot is basically the same: A group of pretty young people cheat death by not dying in a horrific accident, this time on a suspension bridge, and spend the rest of the movie being killed in increasingly insane ways until death’s balance sheet is filled in. While the death scenes in the movie are nuts – particularly Olivia’s (Jacqueline MacInnes Woods) death by laser eye surgery – the palpable tension that director Steve Quale brings to the scenes leading up to the big event is really what makes it work.
No comments:
Post a Comment