The Final Destination is an OK movie I guess. Maybe I just like gorey over the top death too much though. Actually that's probably the case, I think every movie I've said I liked so far was over the top, violent and gorey, or both. Also I liked the music used in the opening and end credits. I'm a sucker for music ok? Leave me alone. Also spoilers, obviously.
The movie gets kind of same-y towards the end and they rush through one guys death just to get it over with. Not that big a deal I guess. Even though I like over the top shit, especially over the top gorey death, the deaths in this movie were so far out there it was mostly just ridiculous. Maybe that's how all the movies are, I don't know. I mistakenly watched the fourth Final Destination and not the first. At least I checked Wikipedia to see how many there are and noticed my mistake, now you all can't call me a moron for thinking this was the first movie.
I will give the deaths credit, there were only two I was able to actually call. One I called as a joke though because of the setting so make of that what you want I guess. They were at least out there enough I didn't guess a man was going to die via compressed air canister to the chest and a fence. But it happened. Which makes it really hard for me to decide if I don't like the deaths just because of how out there some of them were, or If I do because, y'know, death.
Since on one hand, I like over the top gore. There's plenty of gore here, but on the other, none of this was plausible in the slightest and kind of took me out of the immersion, I guess? Fuck if I know. I just kind of both liked didn't like the fact it felt like most of these deaths were being set up by some unseen person on purpose. Again maybe the other movies are like that, I have no clue, this is what happens when you watch movies out of fucking order.
I really didn't like the main guy's acting though. He seemed really wooden the whole time. Like he never really emoted or anything, he just kind of said everything in the same general tone and gave no fucks about everything going on. The other black haired chick wasn't much better but at least we barely see her. I liked the generic douche bag rich(?) character though, he said he only went to races to see crashes, and I relate.
Anyway our movie follows that group of four dick heads, I don't care about their names, as they try to escape death and fail miserably. The universe really wants them dead. But maybe if it wanted them dead so bad it shouldn't have given the wooden board, I mean, our protagonist a fucking premonition of the race track crash.
Slowly one by one our protagonist and his stupid friends, plus some other people are picked off by the universe in ridiculous ways. The racist guy gets dragged down the street on fire by his own tow truck. While he deserved to die, he had good taste in music. Also his death was entertaining.
Some entitled mom bitch gets a rock to the eye while at a hair salon. I hoped it would have been the scissors, and that's what I was guessing, but the rock works too. One of our main characters friends gets his intestines ripped out his ass via a pool drain, and that was a death I called.
Before the other chick can die though her friends manage to save her. Yippe. They think they've broken the chain of deaths, especially cause the security guard guy can't die no matter how hard they try, and they move on with life. Everything is fine. Until you have literally the most unsafe fucking construction site inside a mall in the history of unsafe construction sites in a mall.
Also some rando managed to live for five seconds but he gets crushed by a bath tub don't worry.
Our wooden board of a hero gets another premonition about how his girlfriend and the other chick are going to die by that horribly unsafe construction site. So he valiantly goes to save them after barely batting an eye at the security guard getting plowed through by a truck. Y'know at this point you think they'd just bubble wrap everything. Every sharp pointy object, every car, bus and truck. E v e r y t h i n g.
As our hero tries to save his friends, he gets nailed to a fucking wall by a nail gun. I'm not sure if there are nails actually long enough to go straight through someones forearm, but instead of looking it up, I'm just going to say I don't care and assume that there are. Anyway he saves his friends, and I guess also the whole mall just in the nick of time.
That now leaves me with the question of, did his ass just start another horrifying chain of the universe wanting to annihilate some poor suckers because someone decided he didn't want to die today. Plenty of people would have died in that movie theater explosion. He just hurt more people than he helped. The wooden board is the Antichrist.
Anyway, as they all celebrate living, for uh, some reason, a fucking truck plows through the window of the coffee shop they're in Spider-Man 2 style. I fucking called that one too. As a joke. I called it as a joke and I was right. But they all die and the end. the Universe got what it wanted.
I really don't know why they were celebrating at the end, it's like they forgot the chain clearly didn't break when they saved whats her face. Maybe they weren't celebrating, the movie was ending so I kind of started writing this at that point.
The movie was Ok I guess though. I probably wouldn't rewatch it anytime soon and it definitely wouldn't get onto a list of movies I really like. But it was decent. I wasn't bored at least.