Final Destination 5

Plot synopsis:
The film opens up with a bunch of workers who are gathering together for a company retreat. Sam Lawton has prepared the breakfast before the bus ride. Sam is a fellow office worker and short order cook. His best friend Peter is awaiting everyone else's arrival for the trip. Molly Harper, Sam's girlfriend, arrives and she then breaks up with him due to his dreams of going to Paris to be an apprentice for his mentor. Sam is hurt by Molly's decision. Meanwhile Peter's girlfriend Candice, an intern for the company and a gymnast, comes along with her rival Olivia Castle, a clad dressed office girl. Molly is being hit on by Isaac Palmer, a co-worker and womanizer. Sam then goes to the construction wing of the building to find his other friend Nathan Sears, a supervisor who has a hard time dealing with construction worker Roy. Nathan and Sam regroup and head on the bus to their destination.As the bus heads up on the bridge, Sam notices the roads construction is rather suspicious, and he begins to have weird feelings while on the bus. The bus is stopped by a traffic operator, and then the bridge starts to crack. The workers get off of the bus. The group gets off first. Candice is trapped when chunks of the road fall into the lake below. She hangs onto the railing of the bridge far off to the side, but the railing detaches, sending her to fall and impale herself on the sail of a nearby boat. The group panics as the bridge is getting worse by the second. Isaac, who was taking a call in the bus's bathroom, is still on the bus, and the bus is sent crashing into the lake, sending Isaac to the windshield to be crushed and drowned on impact. A crack in the middle of the bridge kills many people. Only a pair of support beams are the way to get to the other side to safety. Sam helps Molly over, and she makes it across. Sam tries to help Olivia, but she has lost her glasses and falls into the lake. Olivia, still alive tries to swim, but a car comes falling down, crushing her. Nathan tries to reach Sam, but the wires supporting the bridge detach and one flies across the path, killing him. The company boss Dennis is sent over the edge of the bridge, but as he hangs on, a tank of hot tar spills and burns Dennis's flesh off, sending him to fall into the lake with the rest of the debris. Peter catches the sustained part of the rail of the bridge and Sam does the same. Molly panics as she watches the two. The truck beside her has a metal slider that is holding several construction rods. The slider falls and the rods impale Peter through his face, and he falls to the cement foundation of the bridge, killing him. The slider continues to fall forward, slicing Sam in half.When Sam comes to, he see's he is still alive and he gets Molly off the bus. Peter, Candice, Olivia, Nathan, Isaac, and Dennis follow. The bridge begins to collapse and Sam rushes all of his friends to safety. The group looks surprised and confused as to how Sam knew the accident was going to happen. During the company funeral, William Bludworth, a local coroner, is present and he warns the group that Death is after them. They all ignore his warnings and move on with their lives. Sam and Molly reconcile later that night.The next day, Candice is with Peter at her gymnastics practice, and he cheers her on. Candice does some work on the balance beam, and a nail from a malfunctioning fan falls on the beam, nail side up. Candice has many close calls with the nail, but it never injures her. Candice then goes to do some vault work. She is flipping while a fan set up by one of the coaches is turned on. Another girl on the beam does a routine and she falls on the nail, and she knocks over a pit full of powder. The powder is blown into the area and Candice loses her sight, and she flips, accidentally letting go, landing on her neck, causing her spine and knee to pop through her skin. Sam consoles a depressed Peter.The next day, the group is all together at their work place and they all start drinking to relax. Isaac is going through dead co-workers' desks and he comes across a Chinese massage parlor. Isaac arrives, flirting with many of the women, but is taken care of by an old Chinese woman who speaks English, but simply refuses to speak to Isaac. She later does acupuncture on him, and leaves him in a room where the walls are sound proof. As Isaac rolls over on his bed, the leg of it caves in sending him to the ground, pushing the needles into his body. He staggeringly gets up, but a bottle of alcohol causes a fire from a candle falling after Isaac's phone rings. Isaac avoids the contained fire, but as he waits against the wall, a shelved Buddha falls and crushes his head. Bludworth, who has been present for all of the deaths so far, is there and tells the remaining survivors that there is another way to avoid Death. They would have to kill someone to gain their remaining days on Earth. Peter revels in the idea to where it makes him crazy. Agent Jim Block is covering the case of Sam and his friends, but he finds all of the deaths hard to believe.Olivia goes to get eye surgery the same day, and the doctor straps her head into place. Olivia, fearful, holds a teddy bear, and as the doctor put in tools to keep her eyes open, she rips off an eye from the bear. Olivia is told by the doctor to wait, but the machine begins to malfunction, overheating, and the button to begin surgery is dropped as she reaches for it in panic. The remote drops and the laser slices her eye open. The laser goes off a few more times and it burns through her hand and scars her face. She then escapes the machine. Sam and Molly and the doctor run in to see a scared Olivia, and she trips on the teddy bear's eye. She falls through the window onto a parked car, and falls off as her eye rolls away to be run over by a car.Nathan is working in construction and he is talking to Roy, an angry employee of his. Nathan immediately sees a beam move closer to him with a hook under it. Nathan urges Roy to move, but he accidentally pushes him backwards as the hook falls, and Roy is stopped from landing on the spikes below. Nathan then sees Roy has been impaled by the hook through the head. As the group comes together, Peter finds that Nathan accidentally killed Roy, taking his days, skipping him in Death's design. Meanwhile, as Dennis grills them all, a wrench that Roy placed on a machine is twisted into Dennis's face, the long way.Later that night, in Le Miro 81, the cafe Sam cooks for, his mentor lets him become an apprentice in Paris. He also lets Sam have the restaurant for the night to spend it with Molly. Peter crashes the dinner, and he tells a story of how he tried to push a woman in front of a truck to steal her life. Peter admits he couldn't do such an act, and he then ponders Candice's death and how she didn't deserve to die, but yet Molly supposedly survived Sam's vision. Peter then tries to kill Molly. Molly takes refuge in the kitchen and Sam fights off Peter before Agent Block is shot by Peter, taking his years. The struggle leads to a gun being placed on the burning stove, but as Peter is about to kill Molly, Sam stabs him in the back with a large skewer. Then Sam realizes he stole Agent Block's life from Peter, but Agent Block wasn't supposed to survive that long anyway.A month later, Sam and Molly are boarding a plane to Paris, and she asks for the window seat. As they are boarding, a group of high schoolers fight, as a kid is kicked off with several students and a teacher. During take off, Sam overhears that the kid claimed to have a vision the plane was going to explode. Sam freaks out as he looks at his plane ticket, which reads "Flight 180". The plane begins to explode as the kid, revealed as Alex Browning, predicted. Molly is sucked out the side, and is cut in half by the wing as the rest of plane catches fire, burning Sam to death. As the plane goes down in flames, a flame engulfed engine falls. Nathan is at a local bar, and he is talking to a guy who reveals that Roy was supposed to die in the next few days after his actual death involving the hook because he was ill. Nathan worries as the guy walks away to say "Life is a bitch." Then the flaming engine from Flight 180 crashes through the bar and crushes Nathan to death, ultimately revealing the film to be a prequel to the events of the original Final Destination.

Tags: comedy, mystery, murder, violence

Review:
The FD franchise has it's fans trained to watch for every little thing in a scene that could cause someone's demise until your skin crawls--and FD5 gives the audience this "detective" feeling perfectly.To be honest, I wasn't expecting much out of this movie.
When you factor in the story and characters, the death and mayhem we've all come to love, and one of the best plot twists I've seen this year, FD5 is very worth watching.
Like I say, this is just another Final Destination sequel.If you're a fan of the film then you might enjoy it by its silly death scenes.
Acting is as usual mixed, but the deaths are up to the ingenious standard set throughout all the other films, and then a narrative twist at the finale arrives to seal the deal for a rollicking good time.
Final Destination 5 is nothing new and no exception to this rule despite not being completely awful.A bunch of cronies on an office retreat survive a suspension bridge collapse after one of the group inexplicably has a premonition (sounds overly familiar) of said disaster.
As usual there is a last minute twist, which by this point you're just waiting to be revealed and get it finished with, that doesn't quite add up for many reasons, but coherence has hardly been a strong point of the series.Basically, all this film offers are a few scenes of dread and tension which are all undone by cheap, fake, quick, deflating CGI gore effects.
Give me some tangible gore by Chris Walas or Tom Savini any day over something half-heatedly cartooned onto the movie in post-production.This series has been cheating death for 12 years and it's high time that Final Destination reached its final destination..
Well what can I say, I've sat and watched all FD's and I think the FD5 is the WORST one going, there wasn't enough visions, no-one tried to cheat death, I just wanted to fall asleep!I would not recommend this film if you like the previous 4 then this one will disappoint you also, the story line, wasn't as full as the other, it seem to have more people that should have died but these were missed out.This film like the 4th only ran for 1hr 20mins this is also disappointing, I would think they could put more imagination into it!Maybe Lion Gate, can create the 6th!.
In this latest installment to the horror franchise , Sam (Nicholas D'Agosto) and his office colleagues (Miles Fisher , Ellen Wroe , Jacqueline MacInnes Woood , P.J. Byrne , David Koechner) , his girlfriend Molly (Emma Bell) arrange to getaway an ill-fated bridge , thanks to a premonition Sam got ; but later on , things go wrong , that's why there's no way you can cheat Death.
Amusement and entertainment lies from attempting to guess which of the ludicrously over-determined potential hazards will deliver the creepy killings .In this 5º installment of the ¨Final Destination¨ series appears none character repeating from former entries , it displays suspense , tension , thrills, and creepy deaths .
The main character played by Nicholas D'Agosto did a good job, and his co-star Emma Bell clearly knows how to scream out loud, I loved her final scream in the bridge collapse scene.
It's taken seriously and is full on high tension (a bit like Aja's directing in "High Tension").This is what sets "Final Destination 5" apart from all the other films in the franchise.
The laser eye surgery bit had me squirming and cringing in my seat (I can't deal with eyes) and even the death scenes without eyes were really intense and quite shocking.If you're a fan of the "Final Destination" series, then without a doubt you must see this (I suppose you would anyway if your a fan) and seeing it in 3D only enhances the shock value!
Anyone familiar with the Final Destination franchise knows what to expect: hot chicks, the ever-present menace of ordinary objects, and gruesome scenes of graphic death.
And the Special and visual effects were brilliant, I wasn't expecting much considering the last film had rather cartoon like effects and a terrible storyline but I was very pleasantly surprised the acting was considerably better as well, and The ending, well it was brilliant I mean everyone's been saying how good it was and how they didn't see it coming, well it really was but also when you hear about it all over the internet you kinda work it out :L But still!
There was a point where I actually sympathized with certain character's deaths because...wait a second, how have I gone this far into a Final Destination review without mentioning the gore?
When it was announced there was going to be a sequel I was thrilled, I like the Final Destination films and was anxious to see what gruesome deaths awaited.Now, we all know the story, someone has a premonition of a horrific accident, they manage to save a handful of people, but Death has been cheated and is stalking the survivors, killing them off one by one in creative and gruesome ways.Personally, I wanted the accident to be set in a water park, but a bridge collapse still holds up the suspense.
Nevertheless, FD5 delivers a brilliant sequel to the dying franchise.The death scenes are wonderful, if not a bit far fetched (like a doctor who really leave a patient alone strapped to a table with a laser in their eye) and I'll admit there are some clichés in there too, but of course, FD is all about bending the rules of physics.I still think the original is the best, the second very good, the third fine, and the fourth just awful, but this one is fantastic and could almost rival the first if we didn't already know the whole story.
Oh yeah, and I like the new twist in the rules, that a survivor can kill someone else to take their place and hence force have new life.I would have given the film ten stars if the death scenes were a little more realistic.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not annoyed by it, I just think it would be good if the story was explored a little more.Overall, if you've seen and liked the previous films, I see no reason not to recommend this one.
Decent acting, awesome deaths, amazing 3D effects, and a plot twist that leaves FD fans wanting more (but will go over the heads of those that have only seen this movie.) There isn't much else to say about this movie except that it is definitely worth it and if you can go see it in theaters, do.
the film also manages to get the tone pitch perfect, keeping things serious and intense but tongue in cheek when it's needed.The death scenes are fewer and far between this time around but they still pack a punch being significantly more suspenseful than usual and the disaster on the bridge is probably the best and most intense opening out of all them.The twist at the end actually blew me away and I was not expecting it at all.
It's not draw dropping but those who have stuck through the series since the beginning are sure to get a big kick out of it.I think most importantly, the film just feels like a film again and not just another Final Destination movie.
In this fifth and most recent film (2011) it's a spectacular bridge collapse and it's probably the best opening tragedy of the franchise.All of the movies in the series tell the same basic story with different characters and minor nuances; all of them are of the same high quality of technical filmmaking.
It does mildly expand on the story by introducing a new rule to fight death and the twist at the end was different but apart from that its definitely little more unpredictable and it does definitely fall in the top three miles above 3 and The Final Destination.
It still plays that way at times, but at least writer Eric Heisserer (the "Thing" prequel) and director Steven Quale, the latter making his fictional feature debut, give us enough story and enough character detail to make our intended victims worth watching.
The deaths involved in this one were extremely elaborate and interesting and the ending involved a gigantic bamboozle that I still get goosebumps over.Made 11 years after the first one, you can see how much the franchise has changed and grown and while the fourth one was bad, the fifth one made the franchise fresh again.I almost want a new Final Destination film.
While it was not a great or perfect film (particularly in the dialogue, ending and some of the acting), the first 'Final Destination' was entertaining and effective (especially with its terrific opening plane sequence and the creative deaths) with a fascinating idea done well.The bigger and bolder 'Final Destination 2' had its flaws but was just as good and perhaps the best of the four sequels.
The down-time and exposition between the deaths is turgid and clumsily written, saying very little interesting.Characters are as shallow as to be expected, the dialogue is just as flimsy and the effects look pretty cheap.However, the opening bridge scene is spectacular and perhaps the best opening of the series.
Several youths once again discover that "death doesn't like to be cheated" after surviving a deadly bridge collapse accident in this final chapter in the 'Final Destination' franchise.
If anybody has seen any of the other 4 Final Destination films they already know what to expect from this addition: guy has premonition of himself and his buddies dying therefore he persuades them to escape whatever situation is causing the death, this case being a suspension bridge collapse, which in turn means they cheat death, but as we all know, YOU CAN'T CHEAT DEATH TWICE!!!!!
I was expecting a really dumb Final Destination film full of dumb and rushed deaths, but I was extremely surprised at how this movie took it's time to develop almost all the characters before killing them in shocking and sometimes unexpected ways.
To sum it up in one word, I'd probably say that the death sequences felt very "tame" for a Final Destination film.The acting wasn't the best, but the three central characters did a decent enough job to keep you interested despite being a bit one-dimensional.
Great horror films make your root for the good guys, this movie has you cheering for death.
Final Destination 5 is about as much fun as you'll have hearing bad conversations and watching not name actors, and it's well worth the eerie feeling you get afterwords, that as ridiculous as that movie was, maybe death is out to mess with you.
Although offering cool deaths as usual, the acting sucked, no interesting characters this time round and it felt like i was watching a parody of these films at times.
Though I felt this film actually a little more depth to at least some of the characters, and the lead wanting to be a chef was a nice change of pace for a film like this.The deaths do not disappoint, and there were quite a few scenes that built up tension nicely, so I was actually biting my nails in suspense (something I rarely do, folks!).The ending was also a nice variation on how these things end.Of course, like FD2-4 this is not a sequel, but really a remake with different people..
The story itself still the same as the previous Final Destination series, a group of people saved from a tragic accident but what happen later are beyond their imagination : death are chasing them one by one..
Then the producers play a blinder be having an ending I never saw coming in a million years and it's so simple and is a great way to finally wrap up the series which looks like ending with this movie.
There are very few long-running horror franchises where I can happily say that I have enjoyed every single chapter, but that is definitely the case with the wonderfully dumb and delightfully gory Final Destination series; admittedly that's probably because each successive sequel has been almost virtually identical in format to the enjoyable original, setting the stage with a spectacular disaster and allowing death to do the rest, but I have enjoyed them nevertheless.Part 5 certainly doesn't stray far from the formula.
People avoid a major disaster – but they can't cheat death for longThough originally a 3D venture, which is obvious thanks to that annoying "in your face" camera angle, and sometimes shoddy looking special effects, this the first of the movies to hold my interest throughout.Granted, it's over-the-top and corny to a degree, but the characters are a bit stronger as well as the suspense.
By now, we the viewers should all know the formula: kid has a premonition of a horrible accident, warns others about the impending doom, seconds later said tragedy does actually happen, and then the survivors start dying in horrible Rube Goldberg-style accidents manufactured by Death itself."Final Destination 5," directed earlier this year by Steven Quale, is no different from its predecessors.
We believe in some of the characters and attempts are made for real acting performances and dramatics.But let's not kid ourselves here: they're all on Death's hit list, so let's not get too attached to everybody.Although "Final Destination 5" (supposedly) brings this series to a close, I wouldn't really count on it: as long as there are teenagers (or if you prefer, "young people") out there, there will always be a market for Death to come and slaughter the lot of them in increasingly shocking and gruesome ways.8/10.
Again, lots of nicely talented young actors and actresses, and people here did a great job with their roles and bringing their characters out on the screen."Final Destination 5" is well worth a watch, if for nothing else, then for the death scenes alone..
4 or The Final Destination was an attempt to be more gory than the others but other than that had nothing to keep me interested, similar to how the Saw movies became.5 surprised me as actually being quite good, it managed to get the suspense of the series back whilst making it a total gore fest.
The good thing about 5 is that it actually stopped taking itself seriously and many of the deaths were fairly comic and in my opinion once you get to the 4th sequel you probably shouldn't continue to take it seriously as you will end up repeating the other movies yet again.There were some memorable moments and many of the characters were likable with less clichés and stereotypes.
The only thing that will never change in any of these final destination movies is that death can't be cheated.
The ending of this movie was excellent, it shows how the whole final destination series sparks from the beginning.
The film is what I would call and what others may believe to be the best sequel in the Final Destination series.
There's even a little montage at the end, of creative death scenes from the previous four movies, like a compilation.
final destination 5 is a very good movie witch is hard 2 believe because usually the 5th movie in a series starts to go down hill but and i thought this movie would be crap i am a big fan of the first 3 but when i saw the 4th i was so disappointed and thought the series was over than came this movie and what can i say it surpassed my expectations it was truly a good time from the deaths witch are by far the goriest of the series to the good acting witch is hard to find in a movie like this but the thing that was awesome was the use of 3D witch made every death scene cooler it really made a difference and another really big improvement was the script and the direction the script was basic but it did have a few nice surprises in it ex specially the end .
Also Jacqueline MacInnes Wood was awesome she stood out above everyone and was the most believable of all characters.Final Destination 5 was arguably the best movie in the series.
The original 'FINAL DESTINATION' (like with most popular long running slasher franchises) was actually a really good and well made film.
Like with similar franchises the original sequel really upped the ante and gore and it was a pretty satisfying installment as well (with probably the best all around death scenes of the series).
This time around Mr. Quale attempts to bring something to a franchise that I believe seems to supply absolutely nothing.Now the first Final Destination movie was actually a pretty good horror movie with a decent plot line.
I've only seen the first and the fourth Final Destination movies before this one, but from those I got a pretty good idea of what might be going on in the other two (main character sees accident, some people survive, they all die one by one), so I didn't bother watching those.
However, the film was disappointing – but in a good way!In the other movies the characters had to save someone to break the pattern of death in order to survive.
FD5 was better then the comedic FD4 but like i say nothing new just random teen actors we never seen before nor heard from being killed off 1 by 1 by the Grim Reaper itself the only reason why I think any of these movies are OK is because of how creative the death scenes can be.
Had they at least maybe tried to use some practical effects I think the deaths would have had more impact that just looking like a cartoon.All in all this movie does have some entertaining moments and the ending, except for the final two minutes, is done really well.