{"id":16868,"date":"2024-10-17T20:00:49","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T00:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=16868"},"modified":"2024-10-16T17:57:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T21:57:48","slug":"final-destination-5-2011-steven-quale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/16868","title":{"rendered":"Final Destination 5 (2011, Steven Quale)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Funny from the start, “Practical Pictures presents” and then a titles montage of very non-practical effects. Opening death-escape setpiece is a company (called Presage, lol) retreat aboard a bus on a collapsing bridge, and based on the first death (Intern Candace impaled on a sailboat mast Flesh For Frankenstein<\/em> style) I assume this was shot in 3D like the last one<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Premonition Boy is Sam – he’s a lousy salesman at the company moonlighting as a promising restaurant cook. Law & Order<\/em> veteran Courtney Vance can’t prove the kid caused the bridge collapse, decides to keep tabs on things, but is in the wrong movie and can’t keep up. And then off we go: gymnast Candance flips into a catastrophe crunch and all her bones explode in front of boyfriend Peter, then horrible PJ Byrne (of a Mary Lynn Rajskub Charles Manson movie) gets his head smooshed by a Buddha during acupuncture, and Tony Todd tells the rest of them they’re doomed.<\/p>\n

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Hotgirl Who Is Useless Without Her Glasses opts for lasik, oh no, gets her eye burned out AND falls out the window. It’s always more than one thing – they go through hell, not a simple lawnmower rock to the head. Newbie factory supervisor Arlen (of a Friday the 13th<\/em> remake) “kills” disgruntled union man Brent (The Damned Thing<\/a><\/em>), possibly saving his own ass, as the kids are re-figuring out the death-plot everyone figured out in previous movies. Then shithead boss Koechner (Run Ronnie Run<\/em>, Piranha 3DD<\/em>) catches a simple wrench to the head, ok.<\/p>\n

When your job is to watch people mock you on video:<\/em>
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When your horror movie is anti-union:<\/em>
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Peter with the dead girlfriend decides to kill everyone, they thwart his plan at Sam’s restaurant kitchen (a place full of intriguingly dangerous implements), the cop gets in the way and dies, and now the weird death-logic they’ve devised (or invented) means the final couple (Sam is TV’s Harvey Dent, Emma of Frozen<\/a><\/em>) gets to live natural lives and move to Paris together – but the movie is a sneak prequel as they board the flight with the kids from part one<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Quale worked on Titanic<\/em> and The Abyss<\/em>, the writer did some ill-advised remakes then hit the big time with Arrival<\/a><\/em>, and I’m all caught up on Final Destinations until (potentially) next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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