The Final Destination

Anyone who knows me, knows I'm not the biggest fan of horror movies. Being married to my wife who is a horror movie guru has been slowly getting me to become a fan of these movies. Moreso with the Final Destination movie franchise. I never thought I would like these movies because it showed people dying in unique ways. But I got to admit, the style of it was unique and movies still are trying to duplicate this and failing miserably.

So this is not an angry movie nerd rant, but rather a praise. Which is good considering I just sat through Jennifer's Body.

This movie starts out the same way as the very first one. There is a vision of death by the main character. He prevents his friends and a few others from dying and afterwards fate tries to catch up with them and take them out.

Now instead of duplicating the first movie and ticking off the fans, they added new twists to them. The first was this movie like Final Destination 3 was filmed in 3D. Now I wish I could've seen this movie in that format to get the feel of what the directors wanted us to see, however it would have killed my eyes and possibly made me sick.

The second twist was they thought they "broke the chain" three times in the movie. I found this interesting because in the first three movies everyone knew how they were going to die. In this movie only the main character knew what was happening...but wasn't to clear on the order of things. In fact on the last time he thought he broke the chain he was experiencing deja vu. But it was so believable in the Final Destination franchise that you thought this was the way the movie would end...and we still had 30mins. left in the movie! That is how freaking awesome this movie was. It kept you guessing to the end, and even the ending (this movie I won't spoil cause it was that good) was expect the unexpected.

So in closing on this nice review, I give it five stars, and hope they make another installment. One last note, the pool scene is just as awesome in reverse as it is forward.