MOVIE REVIEW - Final Destination 5 3-D

The new 3-D technology is really great, and can make virtually any action, or animated movie a real different experience. That brings us to Final Destination 5 3-D.

This series has been an interesting one. The whole premise is, and has been this. Groups of young adults who somehow escape death, are then hunted down by death. You can't cheat death, we all owe one. And if you escape yours, you must pay with your life, or a life in it's place.
This premise alone is kind of interesting at first, but after one movie point was made and all could have been tidied up. But we trudged on.

This series was dead (excuse the pun) but the new 3-D breathed new life into it. The idea of watching characters being hacked to death now in 3-D was just too tempting not to go after. After seeing it, I have to say the 3-D here stinks, and is not worth the extra dough. There is a moment or two of cool 3-d, but over all... pretty rank.

After this group of young adults escape a deadly suspension bridge collapse, death comes looking for them. And death starts to pick them off one by one. One girl gets her eyeballs fried out in a doctors office during a routine eye exam. Another is rubbed out in a horrible industrial accident involving a huge hook. And so on. Two of our characters seem to defeat death only to be killed in a 747 plane crash. That's pretty much the story.

Interesting here. They found this actor to play the lead character, Sam (Miles Fisher). Fisher looks exactly like a young Tom Cruise. Is the intent to give this franchise some credibility by casting a Cruise look-a-like? Seems so. Dude does a mean Cruise I have to admit, even though it may not be intended. Cruise imitator or not, you can't cover up bad acting, or a bad script. This movie has some of the worst acting you can imagine. And the writing? Unbelievably bad. But that's not whey we're here.

We're here to see what new ideas this franchise has cooked up to show people at their demise. And if you're looking or hoping for "new" you're out of luck. It's the same old stuff. But I will say the bridge collapse scene in 3-D and the special effects there are extraordinary. It is very well done, and a big undertaking for this franchise. Very elaborate and over all compelling. But that's the best moment of the flick, and it's right up front. After that, it's all ho-hum.

Final Destination 5 3-D. The only reason it's here in the first place is the new 3-D. And the only reason to go see it, is if you have 15 dollars too many.