Movie Review: The Final Destination

HORROR; MA, 1hr 22min
STARRING: Bobby Campo, Shantel VanSanten, Nick Zano, Haley Webb

Having really no need to establish what's what with this fourth repeat of the
formula, director David R. Ellis's The Final Destination (please!) goes directly to work
on graphic 3-D doom. After a few trite lines of dialogue, racing cars are crashing and burning, a speedway stadium is collapsing, people are dying horribly mutilated deaths — and it's all poor Nick's (Campo) premonition.

Nick, his buddies (VanSanten, Zano and Webb) and assorted lucky ones flee the scene just before the actual disaster strikes, but Destinites know what's coming next: gory ends will befall the lot of them regardless, glimpsed in premonitory flashes by a freaked-out Nick.

When the sole rationale of a movie is the gross and circumstantially complex elimination of its poorly delineated characters, the impact pans out at a midpoint between numbing and nauseating with some queasy suspense thrown in. At least you know what you're up for from the start, which wouldn't be such a terrible thing if the thing weren't so terrible in the first place.
Andiee's Rating: *