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Promises, promises. Hopefully the makers of "The Final
Destination" series of films will keep their word with this
latest installment. You’d expect by now after all the sequels
in the initially clever “Final Destination” series of films
that we’d be, well, at our title location. You would think
that the “Final Destination” franchise of horror thrillers
would have used up its nine lives by now. Since this is
only film four, I guess we might have to suffer through
five more before the series reaches its true expiration
date. The films which had a fascinating premise (for the
first one at least) deals with individuals that have somehow
outsmarted death only to find that death is on to them and
hunting them down after they avoided being killed because
of a bad feeling or premonition. Here’s hoping Death takes
a holiday after this gore fest. ***
The latest film in the franchise “The Final Destination”
promises that the door might finally be closed on this increasingly
anemic series but remember in Hollywood you can never say
never. If a film is profitable Hollywood will find some
way to squeeze one extra dime out of it so don’t be surprised
to see more coming our way perhaps in 3D yet again. ***
“The Final Destination” was presented in 3D in theaters
over the summer. In the latest film Nick O’Bannon has a
premonition that a day at the races will end for him and
his friends as a night at the morgue. Nick, his girlfriend
Lori and their friends Janet and Hunt escape from the audience
at a car race just as a bizarre accident causes cars to
crash with flying debris filling the stands where they were
just before. As with all of these films Nick and his companions
find that we’ve all got expiration dates stamped on us we
just can’t see those dates and “Death” continues to stalk
them. The quartet quickly realizes that while they had a
stay on their “execution” they will be vacating the planet
fairly quickly. Nick must figure out how to survive and
cheat death once again. ***
As with all these types of films the stories become
nothing more than an excuse for more and more gruesome deaths
and sprays of blood by the gallons. The problem with “The
Final Destination” isn’t the premise but that we’ve seen
this many, many times before and the only attraction of
this the last film (hopefully) in the series is that it
is presented In 3D. ---
Image & Sound:
“The Final Destination” looks quite nice in its Blu-ray
presentation. The 3D effect of the film is fairly good although
obviously not as good as presented in theaters. Colors are
bold throughout and the detail is amazingly sharp looking
it’s a pity all this technical expertise wasn’t put to better
use for a better movie. ***
The surround speakers get a workout with a 5.1 lossless
DTS-HD presentation with plenty of action when Death is
about. ---
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