Final Destinationis a pretty gimmicky franchise at the best of times, and the 3D nonsense doesn’t help. Every kill has something popping out of the screen at the viewer, to the point where the only 3D horror movie more obnoxious is Friday The 13th Part III (and even then only because The Final Destinationdoesn’t have a yoyo in it). The reason everything looks so crap is simple: it was designed to be seen in 3D.
It’s just people getting killed by flaming car parts landing on them. Horrible, no? It looks cheap, and there’s no real variety. The Final Destination movies are all about showy, over the top death scenes, but just take a minute to rewatch the opening scenes of The Final Destination. It certainly doesn’t feel universal.Īnd it all looks rubbish. Okay, so crashes aren’t that common, and if you’re a spectator you certainly wouldn’t expect to get horrifically killed at one of those races but it just doesn’t have the same sense of surprise and menace that a huge pileup on a normal road has.
But the kind of high speed racing the kids are watching at the beginning of The Final Destination is obviously dangerous. At their best, the premonition scenes in Final Destination movies tap into universal fears, pointing out just how fraught with danger our everyday lives are. It lacks the wow factor of the opening disasters in some of the other movies, and just feels a bit uninspired. The opening scene at the McKinley Speedway track pretty much sets the tone. No one’s going to argue with this, are they? The fourth Final Destination film, which inexplicably lost the “4” from its title, is the nadir of the franchise. Given the lack of survivors to tie one film to the next, it’s kind of surprising that New Line and Warner Bros have managed to make five of these movies, but since they have, let’s try putting them into some kind of order… 5. The Final Destination (2009) Hardly anyone lives to the end of a Final Destinationmovie the ones that do generally have to go to extreme measures, and it’s implied they won’t last long beyond the credits. The Final Destination franchise masks its incredibly bleak message with bright colors and inventive Mousetrap-style killings, but at heart, they’re about how everyone dies one day, and the whole world is out to get you. Its characters don’t get to hope for survival if they can outrun a man with a knife or shoot a zombie square in the head – they’re being hunted by Death itself, and there’s no escape. Final Destination is the most existential horror franchise of them all.
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