The Final Destination 3-D
Review
by Anthony Morris
Interview : Nick
Zano & Haley Webb
Ahh, gimmicks: is there nothing they can't improve?
Even the Final
Destination franchise, which had managed to turn out three
surprisingly entertaining films.
This is actually the fourth, despite "3D" being traditionally reserved
for the third film in a series (this should really have been called Final Destination 4D: The Fourth
dimension Is Fear) out of perhaps the lamest horror-movie
idea ever, and turns out to look all shiny and new after a going over
with the 3D brush.
As with every other Final
Destination movie, the story remains exactly the same...
A group of blandly good-looking young folk somehow manage to
cheat Death, only to have Death (and that capital D is there for a
reason) decide he's got unfinished business with them.
Thing is, Death (who never actually appears in the film, but seems to
be fond of heavy-handed puns appearing in newspapers, dialogue, movie
titles and business names) doesn't just kill people via a heart attack
or slow cancer, oh no.
Death's all about the amazingly complicated chain of co-incidences
(Mousetrap board game style) that end up with a pool drain sucking out
your organs, a busted escalator chewing off your legs, a hospital
therapy pool crashing through a ceiling onto your head or your guts
being mashed through a egg-slicer-style fence.
In 3D!
These movies are all about the death-traps and there's plenty of fun to
be had trying to figure out exactly which bit of rickety wiring is
going to explode and kill the next loser on Death's list.
At 80-odd minutes The
Final Destination 3D doesn't overstay it's welcome either
- but we're probably not going to need a Final Destination 5
any time soon.
3
out
of 5
The Final
Destination 3-D
Australian release: 15th October,
2009
Official
Site: The
Final Destination 3-D
Cast: Bobby Campo, Shantel
VanSanten, Nick Zano, Haley Webb
Director: David R. Ellis
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