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Final Destination 5

By Jeffrey Anderson, Common Sense Media Reviewer

age 18+

More elaborate, inevitable deaths in grisly, gory franchise.

Movie R 2011 92 minutes
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age 18+

You have reached your destination

he best final destination out of all of the movies lots of gore and blood i recommend it to 16 or older mature only and no sex or drugs which is good not to have in a great film like this.
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final destination 5

the best final destination out of all of the movies lots of gore and blood i recommend it to 16 or older mature only and no sex or drugs which is good not to have in a great film like this.

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Oddly, this movie is a bit better than its predecessors (though that's not really saying that much). Thanks to the huge success of the fourth and "final" The Final Destination, FINAL DESTINATION 5 became an inevitability. It's the feature directorial debut of Steven Quale, who was a second-unit director on Avatar and also helmed Aliens of the Deep; he has lots experience with 3D. Not surprisingly, then, the use of 3D here is pretty good -- especially the smashing title sequence.

The characters are a bit more sympathetic and humorous, and, unlike in the fourth film, they tend to show empathy for their fallen friends and co-workers. The death sequences, as always, are elaborate Rube Goldberg-like traps, with misdirection and deception at every turn. It's fascinating that these sequences tend to elicit a squirmy, giggly reaction from audiences rather than dread or terror. This is a purely cathartic, visceral experience, not having anything to do with characters or plot. But other than that, any redeeming social value is negligible.

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