EVEN if you’ve only seen one of the previous four Final Destination films, you’ll already know one thing – you can’t cheat Death. In the latest instalment, our hero Sam (Nicholas D’Agosto)works in the office of a paper manufacturer.
He’s been tasked with organising a staff awayday for colleagues, who include on-off girlfriend Molly, best friends Peter and Nathan, sleazy Isaac and Olivia. All is well until the bus they’re travelling on gets stuck in traffic on a suspension bridge. Sam has a premonition of impending doom and, as cracks begin to appear in the road, hurries his friends off the bus and to safety.
But Death doesn’t like to be cheated . . .
Ultimately, Final Destination 5 is, barring Tony Todd’s performance as the camp coroner, a badly acted, terribly scripted film, inhabited by unlikeable characters. To say that, however, is to miss the point.
Approached for what it is – a series of over-the- top, gruesome death scenes pieced together by an implausible plot – it might be the best Final Destination yet.
