Hopefully Titus will come this upcoming weekend. In new films, Final Destination held my only touch of attention since I saw Erin Brockovich last weekend. Beyond the Mat , The Third Miracle . What makes this little genre film different from the others is that it does not rely on everything that its genre has written in stone. If I was to look at James Wong's film from a decidedly different point of view, that of the well-meaning public, I might be utterly disgusted by the film's gore and lack of a truly likable character, but none of that really bothers me as a film critic.
Desensitization comes with the territory.
Ironically, the film's finest moment, most shocking death is its least gory one. Yes, the gore is implied, but the audience does not really see everything like with the other deaths. For film that struggles to get beyond the teen slasher demons, keeping the deaths in the same low-gore, high surprise vein would have helped. What if there was a fully planned out map to everyone's death. So beautifully written, so intricately laced that the slightest deviation can throw the entire balance off of the running tract.