A group of co-workers on a corporate retreat escape the collapse of a suspension bridge because of a fellow worker's premonition of the disaster,and then are hunted by an invisible force that seems to be Death itself, coming to collect its due.
Genres: Suspense/Horror and Sequel Running Time: 1 hr. 35 min. Release Date: August 12th, 2011 (wide) MPAA Rating: R for strong violent/gruesome accidents, and some language. Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
Cast And Credits
Starring:
Nicholas D'Agosto, Emma Bell, Miles Fisher, Ellen Wroe, Jacqueline MacInnes-Wood
Directed by:
Steven Quale
Produced by:
Sheila Hanahan Taylor, Erik Holmberg, Richard Brener
The fifth installment of the “Final Destination†series begins with the usual 10 minutes of fun. An elaborately choreographed disaster, in this case a bridge collapse, eliminates a group of teenagers in entertainingly disgusting ways before being revealed as a premonition. This allows some of the group to avoid death, so that they can be killed again â€" in slower, more stomach-churning fashion â€" over the rest of the film.
Few horror cycles are as consistently true to their formulas, and “Final Destination 5,†directed by Steven Quale, hits all its marks: dream, escape, official suspicion, theme song (“Dust in the Wind†this time) and Tony Todd , who returns as Bludworth, the voice of cheated death, after taking the fourth movie off.
“It’s just that I’ve seen this before,†he says, a line that’s too depressingly true to be funny.
A new wrinkle in how the killings spool out actually makes the film even more predictable, and the deaths, which tend to be squirmy rather than explosive (a scene in an eye doctor’s office could be a deal breaker for some), are so perfunctory and lazily jokey that they leave a decidedly bad aftertaste.
Amid the carnage, Mr. Todd and Courtney B. Vance, as an F.B.I. agent, are fun to watch, and P. J. Byrne stands out among the young cannon fodder as an amusingly obnoxious womanizer who has an unhappy ending in a massage parlor.
The fifth installment of the “Final Destination†series begins with the usual 10 minutes of fun. An elaborately choreographed disaster, in this case a bridge collapse, eliminates a group of teenagers in entertainingly disgusting ways before being revealed as a premonition. This allows some of the group to avoid death, so that they can be killed again â€" in slower, more stomach-churning fashion â€" over the rest of the film.
A new wrinkle in how the killings spool out actually makes the film even more predictable, and the deaths, which tend to be squirmy rather than explosive (a scene in an eye doctor’s office could be a deal breaker for some), are so perfunctory and lazily jokey that they leave a decidedly bad aftertaste. 
