Friday, 28 August 2009

"You can't stop what's coming!" Now in 3-D!

Yes, it's another sequel to a film that's had it's basic premise abused for 3 more movies than it should now, but having never watched them I went in fresh for The Final Destination, a film containing characters so paper thin that it's easy to understand how they get impaled or squished or cut apart that easily.

David R. Ellis offers no likeable characters in the film, and using the basic structural highlights of Snakes on a Plane, he gives us shitty CGI, bad dialogue, stupid unrealistic scenarios and a wealth of bad actors.

You have the main guy, who sees the deaths, and his girlfriend, they are happy people, then his best friend, a man more 1-D than possible, and her friend, an unnecessary bitch, then the Black guy who doubles up as the smart one, and a wealth of others who just happened to get deaths too.

For a 78 minute film, plus credits, the opening premonition and subsequent set-up is about 12 minutes long, and then there's a wonderful CGI X-ray title sequence looking at highlight deaths from the previous 3.

And then we return to the film in question, and lots of CGI blood and gore, silly macguffins, laughable moments and amazing 3-D, many people in the audience batted pieces of paper away from their eyes it felt that real-ish.

The film isn't serious, and certainly isn't a horror, it's a thriller, and a bad one, there's limited tension and nothing interesting, but you don't care, it's all about seeing people die in more and more ridiculously over the top ways that question logic and gravity, and have a good freaking laugh as things pop out in 3-D.

And I loved it, it was silly, violent, bad and everything I enjoy in a bad film, one to enjoy for fun, and in 3-D too, well worth a trip to the cinema.

10/10

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