: Final Destination 5
What is it about these movies that is so appealing? The plot is known — everyone’s going to die one-by-one — and you’d think they’d be tedious and boring. But there’s something about the gimmick that makes them watchable. They actually do a good job setting up the characters.
Granted, by this time the franchise is getting stretched very thin (and it was thin to begin with). But there’s still the fun of the grand set piece (in this case a bridge collapse) and a few of the deaths are interesting. But the toying with the audience by teasing us with potential mayhem (ooh, a loose screw!) and then delivering death from a different method is now tiresome (and draws out the deaths too much), and does every death have to involve short-circuiting electrical systems?
Still, this was more fun than I expected and I rather liked the previous ones.
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