I went to watch Final Destination 5 with my friend today at the Miri cinema (there's only one, so I don't have to tell you which one). I remember the third and fourth installments of this series with only the vaguest memories of mindless gore and no plot, and had low expectations for the fifth movie. Besides, wasn't the fourth movie titled "THE Final Destination"? What could they possibly add to the series now? I guess you can say I only went to watch it out of habit. Plus movie tickets on Wednesday are only RM5 each, so if you're going to risk watching a crappy-to-average movie in the cinema, best to watch it then.
But I was pleasantly surprised. The movie was actually better than the last two movies, though not as good as the first two. There actually was some semblance to a plot, and the deaths were for the most part difficult to predict. As with the first two movies, there was a vague hint of supernatural forces at work; as quoted by the police inspector in the movie,"Five different systems had to have failed spectacularly for that to have happened!" (or something along the lines of that. My memory isn't good enough to quote verbatim et literatim >_>)
The ending was quite predictable though. But after all, few horror movies have unpredictable endings. I was satisfied anyway with how the movie managed to tie in with the previous movies.
Overall, I thought it was a pretty decent movie. Even the problematic cinema didn't give too much trouble today... the worst glitch that happened was that the sound disappeared for a few seconds prior to someone's death. Don't you just love that? Sometimes it's enough for me to miss the cinemas back in Ipoh.
So, end verdict: if you like the Final Destination franchise in general, this movie is worth a watch. At least, it got me blogging again, didn't it?
