An ending can make a movie. Final Destination 5 was teetering on failing or being good, and the ending just shot it over the top. I was almost done after the last Final Destination movie because of how bad it was, and this one brought it back to the standard formula, which will keep me in the seats. Major improvement.
One thing that changed it from it's standard film isn't what you'd think I'm about to say: it didn't have your standard hotties. Final Destination 5 has a beautiful young woman in Jacqueline MacInnes Wood, the rest not so much. Damn.
It did give a little more insight into the pattern of those people dying. It moved how you actually can avoid it forward. It also hints into how much longer they'll live. If they added those small things into the other ones there would have been so much progression into the movie. But it's Final Destination. What am I talking about? Tony Todd (of Candyman fame) is back. After not being in the 4th installment, he's the only repeat character, having only missed that one. Nicholas D'Agosto is OK. He was in a movie called Fired Up! and hugely funny. He's fair in Final Destination 5, as was the rest of the cast. Nobody stood out. Even David Koechner was just OK. He's funny, but pretty much the same character in this one that he is in every other movie, just not as funny in this one.
The writer and director both did fairly well. Writer Eric Heisserer wrote a decent script. He also wrote the Nightmare On Elm Street reboot, which failed miserably. We'll see whether he can progress when he does the Thing remake coming out soon. Director Steven Quale has done a little bit of everything. Almost literally. I would love to see what he could do if he focused on one thing like directing. I think he'd do a good job directing. Much better than he did here.
Final Destination 5 is OK. If you've seen the other ones, you know what you're walking into, with a much better ending. If you haven't, don't expect any depth what-so-ever, and the ending won't mean much. It's still entertaining.
One thing that changed it from it's standard film isn't what you'd think I'm about to say: it didn't have your standard hotties. Final Destination 5 has a beautiful young woman in Jacqueline MacInnes Wood, the rest not so much. Damn.
It did give a little more insight into the pattern of those people dying. It moved how you actually can avoid it forward. It also hints into how much longer they'll live. If they added those small things into the other ones there would have been so much progression into the movie. But it's Final Destination. What am I talking about? Tony Todd (of Candyman fame) is back. After not being in the 4th installment, he's the only repeat character, having only missed that one. Nicholas D'Agosto is OK. He was in a movie called Fired Up! and hugely funny. He's fair in Final Destination 5, as was the rest of the cast. Nobody stood out. Even David Koechner was just OK. He's funny, but pretty much the same character in this one that he is in every other movie, just not as funny in this one.
The writer and director both did fairly well. Writer Eric Heisserer wrote a decent script. He also wrote the Nightmare On Elm Street reboot, which failed miserably. We'll see whether he can progress when he does the Thing remake coming out soon. Director Steven Quale has done a little bit of everything. Almost literally. I would love to see what he could do if he focused on one thing like directing. I think he'd do a good job directing. Much better than he did here.
Final Destination 5 is OK. If you've seen the other ones, you know what you're walking into, with a much better ending. If you haven't, don't expect any depth what-so-ever, and the ending won't mean much. It's still entertaining.