There are two main things wrong with it: it tries to tie up the loose ends from the first movie but only brings back one of the two survivors and it hasn’t quite figured out Death’s rules, so the film makes up some loopholes about pregnancy and order skipping.
It suffers from a common sequel problem, where the filmmakers are trying to make sure it’s similar enough to the original movie to satisfy the fans while being different enough to stand alone, and the result is kind of a mess. The credits get split a few different ways, with Reddick credited for characters and story while Gruber and Bress are down for writing the story and the screenplay, but whichever way you slice it, that’s three people working on a story that should be pretty simple. Check the credits and you’ll see three writers credited: Jeffrey Reddick, J. So why is it so far down the list overall? Well, mostly because it’s overly complicated. The lift one is nasty, as is the barbed wire one, and the one with the leftover spaghetti is probably one of the best sequences in the entire franchise. Then there are the nightmarishly elaborate kills later in the movie. I still get nervous if I have to drive behind a van transporting logs, or with a ladder on the roof, or basically anything I imagine could come crashing down and through my windshield to murder me. Driving is scary, there are lots of things that can go wrong, and that sequence is the perfect distillation of all the worst possible scenarios. To begin with, there’s that spectacular pile-up premonition scene at the beginning. But it’s got some seriously great sequences in it, and that goes some way towards saving it. It’s overly complicated, and a bit dopey. There’s a sizeable jump in quality between Theand 2, but that still doesn’t mean 2is particularly good. It’s just ass.Īs a final insult, Tony Todd doesn’t feature in this movie, at all.
No one’s going to argue with this, are they? The fourth Final Destination film, which inexplicably lost the “4” from its title, is the nadir of the franchise. Given the lack of survivors to tie one film to the next, it’s kind of surprising that New Line and Warner Bros have managed to make five of these movies, but since they have, let’s try putting them into some kind of order… 5. The Final Destination (2009) Hardly anyone lives to the end of a Final Destinationmovie the ones that do generally have to go to extreme measures, and it’s implied they won’t last long beyond the credits. The Final Destination franchise masks its incredibly bleak message with bright colors and inventive Mousetrap-style killings, but at heart, they’re about how everyone dies one day, and the whole world is out to get you. Its characters don’t get to hope for survival if they can outrun a man with a knife or shoot a zombie square in the head – they’re being hunted by Death itself, and there’s no escape. Final Destination is the most existential horror franchise of them all.
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