The first few are the only ones I originally watched, I gave up as they kept coming. Since the new one is out and looks fairly decent I thought I'd watch them all starting with the first one.
These were groundbreaking movies and so different at the time, who knew they would spawn so many, like Nightmare on Elm Street and Halloween or Friday the 13th before it.
My honest opinion: Only the first two are worth it. The rest are not great. The last and newest one tried to be different but it just didn't work
Final Destination
Came out; 2000
Time; 1 hours 88 Minutes
Watched: Max
Rated: R for violence and terror and for language
IMDB Rating; 6.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
Tomato Meter 49%
Popcorn Meter 68%
Caution; Spoiler Alert
Staring;
Devon Sawa as Alex Browning
Ali Larter as Clear Rivers
Kerr Smith as Carter Horton
Kristen Cloke as Valerie Lewton
Daniel Roebuck as Agent Weine
Roger Guenveur Smith as Agent Schreck
Chad Donella as Tod Waggner
Seann William Scott as Billy Hitchcock
Tony Todd as Bludworth
Amanda Detmer as Terry Chaney
Story Line;
Alex is boarding a plane to France on a school trip, when he suddenly gets a premonition that the plane will explode. Shortly after Alex, a group of students, and his teacher are thrown off the plane, and to their horror, the plane does explode. Alex must now work out Death's plan, as each of the survivors falls victim. Whilst trying to prevent the next death, Alex must also dodge the FBI, who believe that he caused the explosion.
Thoughts:
The OG Film, I remember thinking this was amazing! It was a thriller and semi horror all in one.
This one still stands up as the beginning of something and it's a great movie. A little cheesy but all in all still decent
CAUTION; Spoiler Alert
High
school student Alex Browning (Devon
Sawa) boards Volee Airlines Flight 180, a Boeing
747, with his classmates for their senior trip to Paris from John F.
Kennedy Airport. The trip is for 10 days, with 40 students from the
high school, in springtime and is supposed to be a trip with memories
to last a lifetime. Before take-off, Alex has a premonition. He
visualizes the events with the group boarding the plane, the plane
itself being in a bad condition, Alex switching seats with Christa
and Blake (fellow students), his tray table having a faulty knob, and
after takeoff the plane will facing a mechanical failure, leading to
a mid-air explosion, killing everybody on board. When the events from
his vision begin to occur in reality, he panics until a fight breaks
out between him and his rival Carter Horton (Kerr
Smith), resulting in both of them being removed
from the plane, along with Alex's best friend Tod Waggner (Chad
Donella as Chad E. Donella), Carter's
girlfriend Terry Chaney (Amanda
Detmer), teacher Valerie Lewton (Kristen
Cloke), and students Billy Hitchcock (Seann
William Scott) and Clear Rivers (Ali
Larter). Valerie asks fellow teacher Murnau to get
back onto the flight as she cannot leave the rest of the students
unchaperoned. Clear wasn't forced off the plane but disembarked
voluntarily. None of the other passengers, except Clear, believes
Alex about his vision until the plane explodes on take-off.
The
students who perish are Christa Marsh (Lisa
Marie Caruk), Blake Dreyer (Christine
Chatelain), George Waggner (Brendan
Fehr), and teacher Larry Murnau (Forbes
Angus), among others.
Afterwards, the
survivors are interrogated by two FBI agents, Weine (Daniel
Roebuck)
and Schreck (Roger
Guenveur Smith), who are both suspicious of Alex.
Alex is not able to explain how he knew that the plane was going to
explode after take-off and simply says that he had a vision where he
saw the plane explode. Alex lives with his parents, Barbara (Barbara
Tyson) and Ken (Robert
Wisden).
Carter refuses to acknowledge that
he owes anything to Alex and says that he will live his own life to
the fullest. Thirty-nine days later, after attending a memorial
service for the victims, an unusual chain reaction (a leaky faucet
spills water on the bathroom floor, Tod slips on the slippery floor,
and gets tangled on the clothing line inside the shower) causes Tod
to accidentally be hanged in his shower that night. Mysteriously, the
water retreats into the faucet after Tod is dead. The floor is dry
and clean and there is no apparent cause for the death.
Alex
had received hints about Tod's death that night and rushed to his
home to find that Tod had already died. Clear takes Alex away from
the house, lest he be implicated in his death. Clear says that when
Alex spoke on the plane, she could feel what he felt and hence
followed him out of the plane. Again, that night, she could feel
Alex's panic and hence came to Tod's house.
While his death is
ruled a suicide (over guilt of George's death, who stayed in the
plane), Alex sneaks into the funeral home along with Clear to examine
Tod's corpse. Alex learns that Tod was pulling at the shower cloth
line wire, which means that it wasn't suicide as the police had
concluded. The home's mortician, William Bludworth (Tony
Todd), reveals that the survivors who escaped from
the impending circumstance have disrupted Death's plan, who is now
claiming the lives of those who were meant to die from the accident.
Alex and Clear are discussing their next move when the rest of the
survivors arrive outside the cafe. Carter again confronts Alex and
says that it is because of him that everybody's life has been turned
upside down. Valerie declares her intention to move out of town.
While Terry is furious that Carter picks a fight every time he sees
Alex. She refuses to let the plane crash be the most important event
of her life. She backs up and steps into the street while talking.
Terry is run over and killed by a speeding bus.
After watching
a news report on the cause of the explosion, Alex concludes that
Death is reclaiming the survivors according to the sequence of their
intended demise on the plane. Nonetheless, he is too late to save Ms.
Lewton, whose house explodes after she is impaled by a falling
kitchen knife.
The remaining survivors reunite while driving
through town as Alex explains the situation. Carter, who is next, is
enraged over Terry's loss and stops his car on a train crossing,
attempting to die on his own terms. While the others escape, he
changes his mind at the last minute, but his seat-belt jams. Alex
manages to save him just before the car is smashed by an oncoming
train that knocks shrapnel from the wreckage into the air,
decapitating Billy.
Alex learns that because he intervened in
Carter's death, it skipped to the next person in the sequence. The
next day, while hiding out in a fortified cabin, Alex recalls having
changed seats with two classmates in his premonition and realizes
that Clear is actually next. He rushes to her house to save her while
being pursued by Weine and Schreck, who believe Alex is responsible
for the remaining survivors' deaths. Alex finds Clear trapped inside
her car and surrounded by a loose electrical cable that ignites a
gasoline leak around her car. He grabs the cable, allowing her to
escape from the car just before it explodes.
Six months later,
Alex, Clear, and Carter travel to Paris to celebrate their survival.
While discussing their ordeal, Alex reveals that Death never skipped
him after he saved Clear. Fearing that their struggle is unfinished,
Alex retreats when a bus hurls a parking sign towards a neon sign
that descends towards him. Carter pushes Alex out of the way at the
last second, but the sign swings back down towards Carter and kills
him.
Final Destination 2
Came out; 2003
Time; 1 hours 30 Minutes
Watched: Max
Rated: R for strong violence/gruesome accidents, language, drug content and some nudity
IMDB Rating; 6.7%
Rotten Tomatoes:
Tomato Meter 51%
Popcorn Meter 58%
Caution; Spoiler Alert
Staring;
A.J. Cook as Kimberly Corman
Ali Larter as Clear Rivers
Tony Todd as Mr Bludworth
Michael Landes as Thomas Burke
Davis Paetkau as Evan Lewis
James Kirk as Tim Carpenter
Lynda Boyd as Nora Carpenter
Keegan Connor Tracy as Kat
Jonathan Cherry as Rory
Terrence T.C. Carson as Eugene Dix
Justina Machado as Isabella Hudson
Sarah Carter as Shaina
Alejandro Rae as Dano
Shaun Sipos as Frankie
Story Line;
Whilst heading onto the highway, Kimberly Corman has a vision of a huge car accident. Bringing the traffic to a halt, Kimberly is horrified when the accident actually happens. Kimberly links the occurrence with a similar event that occurred one year ago, on the same date that she had her premonition: the Flight 180 disaster. After speaking with Clear Rivers, the only remaining survivor of the Flight 180 disaster, Kimberly discovers that Death's pattern has been disturbed, meaning everyone who was originally supposed to die will now be killed in separate freak accidents. Kimberly and the remaining survivors must work with Clear to try and stop Death from repeating its process
Thoughts:
This is the one that made us all afraid of the highway. The generation of us who watched this has always allowed a wide birth for log trucks and never stay directly behind one.
This was also decent and still stands up
CAUTION; Spoiler Alert
It
begins with a TV newsman talking about Flight 180 and its survivors
and who got killed. Only one person survived, Clear Rivers (Ali
Larter).
Then
we meet Kimberly (A.J.
Cook),
who is going on a road trip with her friends.
They
start their trip. She is driving with her one girlfriend and two
stoners in the back. Her dad calls her and tells her that her
transmission fluid is low and to get it checked. She says OK and
hangs up. Her friend tells her not to stop the car, though, when the
warning light comes on. While driving, Kim sees a bus full of rowdy
football players, a jocky-looking guy, a cyclist, a mom and her son,
a truck with logs, a guy drinking in a truck, a stoner, and a cop.
Then, when the cop spills his coffee, the truck's cargo falls off.
One of the logs goes through his window. The stoner's car flips over
the cops, the cyclist falls off and is rammed by his motorcycle, the
mom and son blow up, and the stoner gets hit by a truck. Kim's car
flips and she thinks all is OK until she sees the jocky-looking guys
car on fire. It gets hit by the other truck, which comes for her car
until she wakes up out of a dream.
She
pulls over, stopping some people. The cyclist (Eugene (Terrence
'T.C.' Carson)),
mom and son (Tim (James
Kirk)
and Nora (Lynda
Boyd)),
a pregnant mom (Isabella Justina
Machado),
the jock aka lottery winner (Evan (David
Paetkau)),
the stoner (Rory (Jonathan
Cherry)),
a rich girl (Kat (Keegan
Connor Tracy)),
and the cop (Thomas (Michael
Landes)).
He stops and asks Kim why she is blocking traffic. She says that she
saw an accident. He doesn't believe her until the truck passes by.
The cars start blowing up. Kim freaks out, Thomas runs to his cop car
to alert the other cops and runs back to save Kim from an oncoming
truck, which hits her car, killing her friends. She cries and is
taken back to the cop station with the others.
They
all talk about how coincidental it is that Kim saw it just like Alex
did in the first film. (The highway was Highway 180). Eugene tells
everyone about it, and how everyone died. Thomas notes that one
lived, Clear Rivers. They all talk about how they are going to die,
and then leave. Kim's dad arrives and takes her home. She talks to
her dad about her mom and all the death stuff.
First,
we see Evan, who was a lucky lottery winner and is getting a bunch of
messages from women over his money. His microwave blows out as his
hand gets stuck in the garbage disposal, after trying to get his
ring. He gets out of his apartment right before all of these things
start blowing up. He climbs down a fire-escape ladder, which won't
come down, so he forcefully jumps on it, making it fall. He lands on
his feet but then slips on some food. The ladder comes down within
inches of his head, but after a few gasps, it goes through his
eye.
We
see Thomas looking up articles about the Flight 180 incident. He
comes upon Alex Browning, the survivor from the first movie, who
apparently, while with Clear, was killed by a falling brick. Then we
see the other survivors from the car incident, watching the news. Kim
sees it and goes to her room. She looks at all her pictures of her
friends, looks up Clear Rivers, and goes to the mental institution
where Clear is. She talks to Clear, who tells her that she should
just save herself and that all her friends will just die. She feels
kind of guilty after Kimberly storms out. She goes home and finds
Thomas there. They talk until Kim sees a reflection of pigeons, which
scares her. She turns around and sees nothing there. Kimberly deduces
that Nora and Tim are going to be attacked by pigeons. We then see
Clear in her cell, where she has a sudden change of heart,
considering leaving the hospital.
Tim
and his mom, Nora, are at the dentist. Tim goes inside. The doctor is
about to put a needle in his mouth when a bird hits the window. The
dentist says he can't do that with all the distractions, so he gives
Tim laughing gas instead. Back in the main room, a fish tank has just
begun leaking near a half-pulled-out plug. As he is drilling, the
dentist hears the glass break and leaves Tim with his mouth open.
While Nora and the dentist are trying to get rid of the bird, the
plug blows up the circuits. The gas tank turns up all the way. A
dangling plastic fish from the ceiling falls into Tim's mouth, who
almost chokes until the dentist's aid takes it out. They leave after
Tim almost dies. Tim walks near a construction site next to the
hospital, while standing under a giant piece of glass.
Some
birds come and break the wire, causing it to fall and crush Tim's
skull.
Nora
cries over the incident. Kim arrives and tries to take Nora away, but
Thomas stops her. She says that Nora is next. Then Clear arrives. She
takes them to the morgue, where they meet the mortician, William
Bludworth (Tony
Todd).
He tells Kim that the only way to stop death is to create new life.
She doesn't understand, but this comes to importance later. While at
a gas station, Kim has a weird vision, that she is driving a van and
it crashes into a river. Thomas then realizes that new life could
mean pregnancy. There had been a pregnant lady Isabella stopped
before the incident. Thomas sends out an APB on the white van
Isabella was driving.
All
of the survivors gather at Thomas' apartment. They all talk about
who's next, Nora knows it's herself. Kim gives them all cell phones,
saying that if Kim sees something, she will call them. Eugene doesn't
believe this stuff, so he picks up his jacket, starting for the door.
A ball rolls out into a mousetrap. It flings up and knocks down a
boat, almost killing Clear. She tells everyone to be careful.
Somewhere close by, a cop finds Isabella, the pregnant lady, in the
white van, and arrests her for stealing the van, jokingly set up by
Thomas.
Nora
leaves with Eugene in an elevator. They are with another old man, a
guy with a basket full of prosthetic arms. Some of the arms had
hands, others had hooks. Back at Thomas', while Rory is securing the
potentially deadly things, he knocks down a bunch of stuff. He looks
at the ground and sees a shadow of a body and some hooks. Thomas
calls Nora, who drops her cell, getting her ponytail caught in the
hooks, and tells her that hooks are going to kill her. She doesn't
understand until the hooks trap her hair in the cart. The old man
tries to get her free, but the elevator opens and she runs out, only
to get her head caught between the doors. The elevator tries to go up
and Nora is being choked by the elevator doors, the top of the
elevator entrance-way, and the floor of the elevator. Kat and
Kimberly lift her, but the elevator rises causing her to become
decapitated. Eugene is scared and crazily goes back to Thomas'. He
threatens everyone with a gun and puts it to his head, shooting six
times, with nothing coming out. He breaks down and cries, while
Thomas inspects the gun. It is fully loaded. Clear says it wasn't his
turn.
They
leave the apartment. The next scene shows the cop that pulled over
Isabella putting her in the jail cell. As they start arguing,
Isabella's water breaks. The cop panics and they leave in her van.
Back to the others, they are driving. This is where the first movie
comes into play. They talk about near-death experiences. Eugene
explains that he was a teacher, and he was sent to another school.
The teacher that took his place died two days later. Kat says that
she was on a bus when it killed a girl in the same town Clear was
from. It was Terry from the first movie, and the teacher was the one
who died in her house. Then Rory says he was in Paris, on acid and
all this stuff, when he saw a guy get killed by a falling sign.
Thomas says that there had been a train wreck (Seann William Scott's
head and Kerr Smith's car from the first film) and that he had been
sent to that, while his partner died, where Thomas was supposed to
go. Kim just saw on TV that some kid tried to strangle himself in a
bathtub. They are all connected to the Flight 180 survivors.
As
the cop and Isabella are speeding down the road, Kat's tire pops and
they almost hit Isabella's van. The car goes out of control, and
crashes. A log goes through the side, pinning Kat to her seat, and a
sharp pole through the back of her headrest. She almost hits it.
Eugene has some kind of liver problem and can't breathe. Some farmers
arrive and Kim tells them to call 911. He goes to the hospital. A
camera crew arrives, only to hit a rock, breaking their gas tank,
causing it to leak. Rory hands Kim his wallet and his keys and asks
her to get rid of his porno and drugs, "...anything that would
break my mom's heart." Rory then saves the farmer's son (Noel
Fisher)
from a speeding car. Firemen are using jaws of life to cut off Kat's
door. Kat asks the firemen not to do it so loud, the fireman tells
her "OK, I'll just put it on quiet mode." Kat replies "That
would be good." The jaws force the airbag to come out, pinning
Kat's head against the sharp pole, killing her. The cigarette she was
smoking blows into the puddle of gas from the news truck. A tree
falls down as Thomas is coming toward Rory. Thomas moves out of the
way and lies down. The news truck blows up. A barbed wire cord held
by two logs blows away, very gruesomely cutting Rory into several
pieces. The farmer lets them take his truck. They leave. Then
suddenly Kim starts choking and has a vision of being in the
hospital. And a doctor, Dr. Ellen Kalarjian (Enid-Raye
Adams),
supposedly choking Isabella. She tells Thomas and Clear what she saw.
Then we see Eugene, who is alright until the vents close. A cord
connecting to the gas loosens, releasing it everywhere and cutting
off Eugene's air supply, and the plug is almost disconnected. They
arrive. Clear goes to find Eugene and Thomas and Kim go to
Isabella.
The
baby appears to be choking. Thomas and Kim hear the intercom calling
Dr. Kalarjian to Isabella's room. They stop Kalarjian and enter the
room. Isabella's baby is fine. Eugene's air comes back from the
emergency battery. They are all celebrating until Kim has another
vision. She sees Isabella at the wreck. But not dead. She wasn't
supposed to die in the accident. And then she remembers further and
sees bloody hands. Clear then rushes towards Eugene's room. The vents
are closed, and the gas is still in the room. The plug disconnects
sparking a fire that blows up the room, killing Clear and Eugene.
Kimberly reaches toward Clear's body, which isn't fully burnt. Thomas
pulls her away. She then deduces that the visions are about her. She
looks at a wall and sees a newspaper clip, entitled "New Life
for Drowning Victim." Kim then sees a white van pull up. She
understands what she must do and enters the van, driving into the
lake. Thomas follows her and tries to get her out. Everything turns
dark as Kimberly sees flashbacks of the characters. She then awakens
to see the vision she saw earlier, with Dr. Kalarjian trying to
revive her. Thomas is at her side and welcomes her back to
life.
Thomas
and Kim are invited to the farmer's house; the one farmer who called
the ambulance for Eugene. They are eating at a barbecue in the
backyard. The son goes to check on the food. The father explains that
before Rory died, he pulled the farmer's son out of the way of an
oncoming truck. Thomas realizes what will happen, and in the
background, we see the barbecue blow up, with the son also. The arm
lands in the mom's plate and she screams.
Final Destination 3
Came out; 2006
Time; 1 hours 33 Minutes
Watched: Max
Rated: R for strong horror violence/gore, language and some nudity
IMDB Rating; 5.9%
Rotten Tomatoes:
Tomato Meter 44%
Popcorn Meter 57%
Caution; Spoiler Alert
Staring;
Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Wendy Christensen
Ryan Merriman as Kevin Fischer
Kris Lemche as Ian McKiney
Alexz Johnson as Erin
Sam Easton as Frankie Cheeks
Jesse Moss as Jason Wise
Gina Holden as Carrie Dreyer
Texas Battle as Lewis Romero
Chelan Simmons as Ashley Freund
Yan-Kay Crystal Lowe as Ashlyn Halperin
Story Line;
When Wendy Christensen has a vision of an accident on a rollercoaster that results in her and her friends' deaths, she instantly begins to panic and gets off the ride, causing some of her friends to get off as well. The remaining friends, including Wendy's boyfriend, are stuck on the roller coaster and involved in an accident. With Death waiting around the corner, Wendy and Kevin Fischer must try and work out Death's plan before they and the remaining survivors end up dead
Thoughts:
This wasn't my favorite one. I remember seeing this in the movie theater. The sound effects with the camera are just off and the acting is super cheesy in this one.
The roller coaster is definitely freaky, and it could actually happen, although there's safety measures in place to make sure it doesn't.
CAUTION; Spoiler Alert
The
film begins with opening credits on Monday nightlife 21 March 2005 at
19:55 Vancouver Time, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada by Wendy
Christensen (Mary
Elizabeth Winstead),
an obsessive-compulsive driven high school graduate from McKinley
High, photographing her friends on a ride called the "High
Dive". Shortly after she takes their picture, she notices the
letter "V" missing from the ride name but thinks nothing of
it. As the beginning of the movie progresses, we're introduced to
several characters, including Wendy's boyfriend Jason Wise (Jesse
Moss), her
best friend Carrie Dreyer (Gina
Holden),
and her boyfriend Kevin Fischer (Ryan
Merriman),
as well as several other characters; the jock Lewis Romero (Texas
Battle),
the valley-girlesque Ashley Freund and Ashlyn Halperin (Chelan
Simmons and Yan-Kay
Crystal Lowe),
the social outcasts Ian McKinley and Erin Ulmer (Kris
Lemche and Alexz
Johnson),
as well as Wendy's attitude-laden sister Julie (Amanda
Crew) and
the troublesome alumnus Frankie Cheeks (Sam
Easton).
Before the premonition, the hydraulic pump beneath Lewis Romero's
seat begins to leak when a roller coaster attendant secures his seat
restraint. The premonition begins when Wendy Christensen has sat
toward the back of the roller coaster and pulls her digital camera
out to snap a photo. The moment the camera takes the picture, a
roller coaster attendant waves his hand in front of her, ruining the
photo. He points to a sign explaining that no cameras or loose
articles can remain on the ride. Kevin suggests that he put her
camera in a pocket inside his jacket. A few rows ahead, Frankie
Cheeks overhears the attendant and conceals his video camera inside
his jacket. Kevin becomes excited for the ride until he withdraws his
hand from the handlebar in front of him after getting his fingers
stuck in sticky gum left by a previous passenger. The attendants give
the OK to start the ride, and the roller coaster begins its ascension
to the top of the initial drop. As the ride progresses, the leaking
hydraulic line rattles and loosens. While going through a loop,
Frankie yells at Ashley Freund and Ashlyn Halperin to flash him.
Annoyed, Ashlyn slaps the camera out of Frankie's hand, which
magically catches onto and wraps around the tracks at the bottom of
the loop. The coaster runs over the camera, which loosens a wheel on
the left side of the front cart, and severs the hydraulic line, and
unlocks all of the safety restraints, threatening the lives of all of
the passengers. As the roller coaster continues along the tracks, the
front left wheel pops off, showering sparks onto the passengers. As
the passengers scream in terror, they attempt to remain in their
seats while the coaster runs through corkscrews, hills, and sharp
turns. More pieces from the coaster train break off. As the coaster
hops over a hill and makes a sharp turn, the force causes carts one
through three to separate from carts four through six. The front
three carts fly off the tracks, killing Carrie Dreyer, Jason Wise,
Ashley, Ashlyn, Frankie, and five others. Lewis is thrown out of his
seat but manages to hang onto the coaster for dear life as it travels
through more corkscrews. He loses his grip and is flung toward the
back of the coaster where he is narrowly saved by Kevin Fischer. As
Kevin catches Lewis, his seat restraint breaks away. Kevin manages to
hang onto Lewis before a metal covering from the cart in which Lewis
sat breaks away and smashes into him, sending him flying into a steel
support beam, snapping his spine in half and causing a part of the
support beam to jut out over a portion of the roller coaster tracks.
The piece of metal that hit Lewis smashes onto another portion of the
roller coaster tracks, causing the tracks to become uneven. The
roller coaster continues to bunny hop toward another large loop,
where, as it ascends toward the top of the loop, it begins to slow to
a stop due to the train's missing wheel grinding against the tracks.
The coaster becomes stuck upside down at the top of the loop. Erin
Ulmer and Ian McKinley fall from their seats but are able to hang on
to their restraints. Shortly after, they lose their grip, and Ian
falls to his death, followed by Erin. Two unseen characters later
revealed to be Perry Malinowski and Julie Christensen, fall out of
their seats to their deaths as well. Kevin and Wendy attempt to get
the coaster out of the loop by rocking it backward. They succeed, but
in the process, Kevin gets his coat stuck on a broken piece of his
missing seat restraint as the coaster goes backward. The piece of
support beam that juts out over the tracks from when Lewis was killed
slices through Kevin's torso, cutting him in half. Wendy screams in
horror and cries before the coaster hits the dislodged portion of the
track. The train scorpion-tails backward as it is ripped off the
tracks and falls to the ground. Wendy is thrown out of her seat as
the coaster falls, and she is killed when she lands on another
portion of the tracks below. It is then revealed that the derailment
was a vision of Wendy's, and the roller coaster is still at its
station. She panics and the roller coaster attendants release the
seat restraints only in carts four through six, allowing several of
the students off before a large fight ensues. Ashley and Ashlyn get
off the ride, followed by Frankie who is videotaping them. Jason
attempts to leave the coaster, but can't get the attention of the
ride operator due to the fight. The remaining passengers begin to
chant "Hey! Ho! Let's go!", prompting the ride operator to
start the ride. As a security guard leads Wendy and the other
students toward the exit of the ride, Wendy notices Jason and Carrie
are still in the roller coaster. Panicked, she runs back to the ride
platform and tells the attendants to stop the ride his screams "Stop
it! No! Stop it! Stop it! Please! Please, the tracks are broken.
Stop! Stop! Please! Jason!", but is forced outside of the ride
exit. As Wendy and Kevin are escorted away on security guard word
Voice tell "Hey, just relax, OK Please Ease up, man. She's all
right. OK Just let her settle down. She can settle down at home Now
listen what is your home phone number OK, we're gonna call your
mother. Everything will be taken care of......" from the ride,
the roller coaster crashes, killing Jason, Carrie, along with five
others. Wendy starts crying "Jason!"
Several
weeks later, Wendy is at the school and is confronted by Kevin,
concerned about her and the loss of Jason and Carrie. Wendy insists
on being left alone. Ashley and Ashlyn invite her to a tanning
session, and she takes their phone number. As she makes her way to
her car, Kevin explains that this has happened before, with flight
180 and the seven people who got off and mysteriously died. Wendy
drives off as thunder booms overhead.
Ashley
and Ashlyn head over to their favorite tanning salon, hoping to
bronze up for the graduation. They both have Slurpees, and the owner
insists they throw them away, as he heads off to complete a phone
call. Ashley merely pretends to throw her drink away, and they both
head to the tanning room, where they proceed to disrobe. Ashley sets
her drink right above a cooling unit of the tanning beds. She also
reaches for a CD, leaning on a shelf and slightly loosening it on the
side. The owner heads out the door, with only a tube of lotion
holding it open. However, the lotion squirts out, and the door closes
shut and locks.
Meanwhile,
Wendy is looking over the photos she took the night of the accident,
after promising Julie to loan the camera to her. Julie lends her a
bracelet left behind as a family heirloom. It's then she notices a
photo of Jason with a foreshadowing of the coaster behind him as it
is about to hit his head, and gets an eerie feeling as the light bulb
dims in and out. She then looks at the picture of Ashley and Ashlyn,
which appears to be over-saturated, reminiscent of flames. She finds
Ashley's number and proceeds to dial.
Back
at the tanning salon, Ashley's Slurpee has begun to leave a water
residue, which leaks into the cooling unit and forces the temperature
to rise slightly. As the girls seem to notice this, a cooling fan
causes a coat rack to fall over and knock over a plant, causing the
plant to fall onto the shelf and collapse. The panel from the shelf
slides right between the handles of both beds, locking Ashley and
Ashlyn in as the temperature rapidly rises. Both girls wince and
scream in agony as the bulbs begin overheating and eventually
breaking, causing their skin to bubble, and soon a fire breaks out,
setting both beds ablaze. The owner tries to get in, but the back
door is locked, and he also locked the front. The girls are burned
alive in the blazing tanning beds.
The
next scene is at Vancouver English Roman Catholic Cemetery funeral,
where Ian begins questioning the preacher's comments about the
equality of death and is led off by Lewis and Kevin. Afterward, Kevin
finds Wendy kneeling at Jason's grave (Age: 18, Born: Monday 23
February 1987, Died: Monday 30 May 2005, Status: Deceased), and she
begins to show him pictures that depict what's going to happen
beforehand, including a picture showing a plane's shadow about to
crash into the World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York City.
Suddenly, a strange wind blows over both of them, and Kevin tells
Wendy he's going to get her some food.
The
two go to a local drive-thru restaurant, unaware that Frankie is
ahead of them in his sports coupe. On the way, the two almost hit a
truck in their vehicle, forcing the driver to jump aside. They get to
the drive-thru of the restaurant, noticing a vehicle is pulling in
behind them and also to the side, blocking Wendy's exit. The sign
also shows the word "control" glitching out, and soon the
radio kicks on, playing "Turn Around, Look at Me" by the
Lettermen. Suddenly, Wendy and Kevin notice a driverless truck coming
their way. They can't escape the vehicle, and they unknowingly honk
at Frankie to move aside, only to have him flip them off. The couple
behind them move their car, and they smash the windshield and jump
out of the vehicle before the runaway truck hits it. The vehicles
collide, forcing Kevin's car to eject its engine out of the front. It
slides along the back of Frankie's car, and the fan cuts right into
the back of his head, killing him. Wendy and Kevin go to check who
the dead person was, and a "jolt" moment occurs when the
fan spins one last time, splattering Frankie's brains all over the
wall.
After a
talk with the coroner, Kevin and Wendy begin to calculate Death's
design and who was sitting where on the roller coaster. They look
over the photos and decide to pay Lewis a visit while he's in the
middle of a workout. Lewis dismisses their claims and proceeds with
his workout, even as Wendy points out to Kevin that his photo shows a
Sultan caricature with swords, a weight dropping on his head, and a
crying bear in the picture. (There's a tall bear statue and a sign
with loose swords in the weight room). Lewis begins to work out with
the other team members around him, causing the swords above his
weight machine to rattle loose. Suddenly, one of Lewis' teammates
accidentally jars a tooth out of the bear's mouth, forcing a weight
lifter to drop his weights. Lewis stops for a moment, and the swords
come down, missing him and instead cutting off a cable on the machine
he's working on, unbeknownst to Wendy, Kevin and Lewis. Lewis takes
this moment of apparent victory over Death and lifts the weights one
more time, only to have the two weights on top smash his head to
bits.
After a
conversation about the bizarre occurrences, Wendy and Kevin make
their way to a hardware store where Ian and Erin work. Ian is seen
shooting at pigeons with a nail gun, then sets it down. He then makes
light of the events that are occurring and makes fun with Wendy and
Kevin. However, soon some accidents are set into motion and a
forklift begins moving and knocking objects around, and it forces it
to start lifting on a wall loaded with objects, including sharpened
stakes and pieces of flat plywood. As Ian theorizes about Death's
design, Wendy notices the stakes, and Kevin saves him as various
items begin falling down. The plywood boards soon start stacking on
top of each other, and a piece of wood flies off and penetrates a bag
of sawdust, blinding Erin. She ends up falling backward and lands
with the back of her head against a nail gun, and nine rounds end up
getting fired through her head and hand, killing her. Wendy, Kevin,
and Ian stare in horror.
After
a visit to the police station and the disbelief that follows, Wendy
and Kevin split up, with Ian unnoticeably looking at Wendy from his
truck. Wendy ends up falling asleep at her house, and Julie comes
along to take the lucky bracelet back, for good luck. Upon leaving,
Wendy wakes up and realizes that Julie and her friend Perry sneaked
into the ride as well, upon identifying the bracelet in a photograph.
She calls Kevin and informs him that his photo looks like something
glaring, with bright lights. It's then that Kevin informs her that
he's overlooking security at a colonial fair, complete with
fireworks, and Wendy starts heading out the door to the fair. Soon,
the song she heard at the drive-thru begins playing again, and she
notices a vehicle following her. She almost hits a wolf in the middle
of the road but continues to the fair.
Kevin
notices Julie and her friends Perry (Maggie
Ma) and
Amber (Ecstasia
Sanders)
at the fair and tries to talk to her, but she runs off after being
annoyed by him. Meanwhile, an actor at the fair leaves his lighting
stick in front of a cannon, knocking it sideways and forcing a
cannonball to run along and knock one of the firework trailer cars
off balance. Wendy shows up, suspecting Kevin might be struck by
fireworks. As the show at the fair starts, and fireworks begin to go
off, a couple of teenagers set off some firecrackers, startling a
nearby horse. The horse begins running through the crowd, dragging a
wooden stake behind him. Julie ends up getting the rope tied around
her neck and almost gets impaled on a rake that the horse jumps over.
Kevin, however, manages to cut her loose. It's then that Wendy asks
the frantic Julie who was sitting next to her on the roller coaster,
and she glances at Perry. As Perry realizes this and begins standing
up, the horse, still startled, pulls a flagpole off a trailer, which
launches itself into Perry's back, killing her.
After
a close call with Kevin where he is nearly killed by a blazing gas
leak, Julie and Wendy begin to drag him off, only to run into Ian,
who thinks that he is the cause of Wendy's death (indicated by a
shirt she was wearing, bearing his last name, which is also the name
of their school). He confronts them as a firework cart begins
wobbling and aims the fireworks right at them. The three duck as the
fireworks go off, which entirely avoids Ian. Thinking he's safe and
that Wendy is next, a loosened crane of a cherry picker that was
struck by fireworks launches the McKinley sign downwards which cuts
Ian in half. His corpse appears to be flipping off the three, and the
screen fades to white.
Five
months later, on Monday 21 November 2005 as "FIVE MONTHS LATER",
Wendy is shown to be in another town, starting a new life with her
friends. She is on board a subway train along with them and starts to
notice advertisements of the locations the previous deaths occurred,
as well as the "Turn Around, Look at Me" song being sung by
a patron. She then gets uncomfortable and tries to exit the train,
but is stopped by Julie, who also boards the train. As she does, a
group of football fans drops an unfinished candy bar, which misses a
trash can and falls onto the tracks, where a rat begins eating it As
the doors close, Wendy can't help but notice that the train's number
is "081", which, in the reflection of a mirror she is
looking at, reads "180", the ominous number in the
franchise. She is unnerved but sits down to talk to Julie. As they
speak, she notices Kevin riding on the train as well and goes over to
ask why he's there. As he begins talking, she notices something is
wrong as the lights begin to dim. Meanwhile, the rat chews on the
candy bar, but gets too close to electricity and fries itself,
causing the tracks to switch over. The train then goes haywire, and
everyone panics as it flies off the tracks. Julie is obliterated by
the train's wheel, and Kevin is thrown against a cracked window and
is unable to move as it slowly begins to grow weaker. The window
finally breaks and Kevin is jettisoned outside, screaming as he is
violently ground between the train and the tunnel wall. Wendy clings
onto a pole, screaming, until the train crashes and she is thrown
outside. Wendy sees that everyone is dead around her, and she crawls,
seeing her leg is severely injured. Wendy begins crying and soon
afterwards another train approaches her at full speed. She begins
screaming word voice tell "No!" and just as the train is
about to hit her it is revealed to be another premonition she had
while talking to Kevin - but this time, the premonition has taken
place mere seconds before the accident which it depicted. "I was
gonna look you up afterward, but You OK Is something' wrong."
Wendy alarms Kevin and Julie about the train as Kevin grabs the
emergency brake along with Julie and Wendy tries to pry the door
open. Wendy's closing words "The train. Oh, shit. Not again. We
gotta get out It's not working. Somebody stop the train!" The
lights begin to flash and the screen cuts to black. Only heard is the
crashing of the subway train and the movie ends, with closing credits
roll with metal horror mystery ghost musician Tommy Lee providing a
cover of The O'Jays 1972 song "Love Train" plays, followed
by a closing musical including an instrumental of "Final
Destination Main Theme" by Shirley
Walker. At
the end of the credits, you will hear the horror mystery ghost
(William Bludworth (Tony
Todd))
laugh.
The Final Destination
Came out; 2009
Time; 1 hours 22 Minutes
Watched: Max
Rated: R for strong violent/gruesome accidents, language and a scene of sexuality
IMDB Rating; 5.1%
Rotten Tomatoes:
Tomato Meter 28%
Popcorn Meter 35%
Caution; Spoiler Alert
Staring;
Nick Zano as Hunt
Krista Allen as MILF
Bobby Campo as Nick
Shantel VanSanten as Lori
Haley Webb as Janet
Mykelti Williamson as George
Justin Welborn as Racist
Story Line;
While watching a car race at McKinley Speedway, Nick O'Bannon has a premonition of a car crash that will result in many casualties, including several people that are in the audience. Nick convinces his girlfriend Lori, along with his friends Hunt and Janet to leave. A security guard named George Lanter, along with a racist named Carter, a mother and her two sons, and several other people follow Nick out. Shortly after they leave, Nick's premonition comes true. When survivors start dying, Nick, his friends, and George must try to find the remaining survivors and save them from Death before it is too late.
Thoughts:
It's like they just threw something together. The racetrack scene was about the best part of this movie, and that's the opening scene
The acting isn't great and even Bubba couldn't save this one
CAUTION; Spoiler Alert
Ten
years after the explosion of Flight 180, while at a racetrack Nick
O'Bannon has a horrific premonition in which a bizarre sequence of
events causes multiple race cars to crash at the McKinley Speedway
racetrack, sending flaming debris into the stands, brutally killing
his friends and causing the upper deck of the stands to collapse on
him. When he comes out of this grisly nightmare Nick panics,
persuading his girlfriend, Lori, and their friends, Janet and Hunt,
to leave... escaping seconds before Nick's frightening vision becomes
a terrible reality. Thinking they've cheated death, the group has a
new lease on life, but unfortunately for Nick and Lori, it is only
the beginning. As his premonitions continue and the race crash
survivors begin to die one-by-one--in increasingly gruesome
ways--Nick must figure out how to cheat death once and for all before
he, too, reaches his final destination. After escaping, Nadia Monroy
(Stephanie Honoré) scolds the group for their actions, when suddenly
a tire flies out of the stadium and violently obliterates her head
and her left arm while the others look on in horror.
Not
long after a memorial for those who were lost, Carter attempts to
burn a cross on George's front lawn because he blames George for
stopping him from going back into the burning stadium to save his
wife, Cynthia. His plan backfires and he is set on fire and violently
dragged down the street by his tow truck. He is then blown up by the
gas tanks in his car, and his blown off head lands next to George,
who came out to see what is happening. The next day, Samantha is
killed when a man on a lawn mower rides over a rock thrown in its
path by her sons, sending it flying through her eye. When Nick and
Lori hear of the deaths they learn about the three previous disasters
and realize that Death is back once again.
While
Janet and Hunt refuse to believe them, Nick convinces George and Lori
to help him conquer Death's plan. Andy is next, who is unfortunately
diced when a carbon dioxide tank throws him against a chain-link
fence. Hunt and Janet are next, as they died at the same time in the
premonition. Nick rushes to save Hunt at the pool, while Lori and
George rush to save Janet at a car wash. They succeed in saving
Janet, but Nick fails to save Hunt, as his intestines are violently
sucked out into the pool drain.
George
considers suicide due to causing the death of his wife and child but
is unable to kill himself. This leads the survivors to believe that
saving Janet has defeated Death. Nick decides to take Lori on a
holiday trip. Janet and Lori decide to go shopping and see a movie
before they leave. But Nick learns that it isn't over because there
was another survivor, Jonathan Grove (Jackson Walker) who was dug out
of the race track rubble recently.
While
in the mall and the theatre, Lori begins to see omens warning her
that the danger is not over. Nick warns George about this, and they
go to the hospital where Jonathan is located, but Jonathan is crushed
by an overfilled bathtub over a collapsed ceiling. Outside the
hospital, George is hit by an ambulance, leaving it up to Nick to
save the girls. Nick arrives and pulls Lori from the cinema just
before it explodes from a fire above, while Janet is impaled by some
a piece of shrapnel. Another explosion causes Lori to be crushed by
an escalator's gears. It is then revealed that the whole thing was
another premonition. Nick fails to save George, but does save Lori
and Janet by extinguishing the fire that would have caused the
initial explosion.
Weeks
later, the trio, thinking they have conquered Death's plan, celebrate
surviving in a cafe. Nick notices a loose leg on a scaffold outside
the cafe, and he tells a construction worker to fix it up. Once
inside, he drifts off into thought after seeing omens around him and
theorizes that his premonition of the mall disaster and the signs
that came along with it were mere red herrings meant to lead the
three where they needed to be to die. Just as Nick realizes this, the
scaffold falls, and in order to avoid it, a truck swerves, and
crashes through the cafe window (the film changes to X-ray vision),
crushing Janet, decapitating Lori, and causing Nick to fly and hit
the wall, thus breaking his jaw, killing the last survivors of
McKinley Speedway disaster.
Final Destination 5
Came out; 2011
Time; 1 hours 32 Minutes
Watched: Max
Rated: R for strong violent/gruesome accidents and some language
IMDB Rating; 5.9%
Rotten Tomatoes:
Tomato Meter 64%
Popcorn Meter 53%
Caution; Spoiler Alert
Staring;
Nicholas D'Agosto as Sam
Emma Bell as Molly
Arlen Escarpeta as Nathan
Miles Fisher as Peter Friedkin
Ellen Wroe as Candice Hooper
Jacqueline MacInnes Wood as Olivia Castle
P.J. Byrne as Isaac
David Koechner as Dennis
Courtney B Vance as Agent Block
Tony Todd as Bludworth
Story Line;
While on a business retreat, Sam has a premonition that he, his co-workers, boss, and several other people will die in a horrific bridge collapse. When his premonition ends, he tries to make everyone get off the bus. Only some of his co-workers, along with his boss, leave. Shortly after, the bridge collapses. Everyone thinks that they are safe until the survivors start dying. It is now up to Sam to try to find a way to prevent anyone else from dying before it is too late
Thoughts:
I have seen this one before, I didn't know until I started watching it again. The kills in this one, starting with the last one starting getting weird. It's nonense and they didn't start out like that
The story line is the same “Cheated Death” and now it comes for you
I do like the ending of this one is the beginning of the first movie
CAUTION; Spoiler Alert
The
film opens up with a bunch of workers who are gathering together for
a company retreat. Sam Lawton (Nicholas
D'Agosto)
has prepared breakfast for everyone before the bus ride. Sam is a
fellow office worker and short-order cook. His best friend, Peter
(Miles
Fisher),
is awaiting everyone else's arrival for the trip. Molly Harper (Emma
Bell),
Sam's girlfriend, arrives, and she then breaks up with him due to his
dreams of going to Paris to be an apprentice for his mentor. Sam is
hurt by Molly's decision. Meanwhile, Peter's girlfriend Candice
(Ellen
Wroe), an
intern for the company and a gymnast, comes along with her rival
Olivia Castle (Jacqueline
MacInnes Wood),
a clad-dressed office girl. Molly is being hit on by Isaac Palmer
(P.J.
Byrne), a
co-worker and womanizer. Sam then goes to the construction wing of
the building to find his other friend, Nathan Sears (Arlen
Escarpeta),
a supervisor who has a hard time dealing with construction worker Roy
(Brent
Stait).
Nathan and Sam regroup and head on the bus to their destination.
As
the bus heads up on the bridge, Sam notices the road's construction
is rather suspicious, and he begins to have weird feelings while on
the bus. A traffic operator stops the bus, and then the bridge starts
to crack. The workers get off the bus. The group gets off first.
Candice is trapped when chunks of the road fall into the lake below.
She hangs onto the railing of the bridge far off to the side, but the
railing detaches, sending her to fall and impale herself on the sail
of a nearby boat. The group panics as the bridge gets worse by the
second. Isaac, who was taking a call in the bus's bathroom, is still
on the bus, and the bus is sent crashing into the lake, sending Isaac
to the windshield to be crushed and drowned on impact. A crack in the
middle of the bridge kills many people. Only a pair of support beams
is the way to get to the other side to safety. Sam helps Molly over,
and she makes it across. Sam tries to help Olivia, but she has lost
her glasses and falls into the water. Olivia, still alive, tries to
swim, but a car comes falling down, crushing her. Nathan tries to
reach Sam, but the wires supporting the bridge detach, and one flies
across the path, killing him. The company boss, Dennis (David
Koechner),
is sent over the edge of the bridge, but as he hangs on, a tank of
hot tar spills and burns Dennis's flesh off, sending him to fall into
the lake with the rest of the debris. Peter catches the sustained
part of the rail of the bridge, and Sam does the same. Molly panics
as she watches the two. The truck beside her has a metal slider that
is holding several construction rods. The slider falls and the rods
impale Peter through his face, and he falls to the cement foundation
of the bridge, killing him. The slider continues to fall forward,
slicing Sam in half.
When
Sam comes to, he sees he is still alive, and he gets Molly off the
bus. Peter, Candice, Olivia, Nathan, Isaac, and Dennis follow. The
bridge begins to collapse, and Sam rushes all of his friends to
safety. The group looks surprised and confused as to how Sam knew the
accident was going to happen. During the company funeral, William
Bludworth (Tony
Todd), a
local coroner, is present, and he warns the group that Death is after
them. They all ignore his warnings and move on with their lives. Sam
and Molly reconcile later that night.
The
next day, Candice is with Peter at her gymnastics practice, and he
cheers her on. Candice does some work on the balance beam, and a
screw from a malfunctioning A/C falls on the beam, sharp side up.
Candice has many close calls with the screw, but it never injures
her. Candice then goes to do some vault work. She is flipping while a
fan set up by one of the coaches is turned on. Another girl on the
beam (Canadian Olympian Brittany
Rogers)
does a routine, and she lands on the screw impaling her foot and
knocking over a pit full of powder. The powder is blown into the
area, and Candice loses her sight, and she flips, accidentally
letting go, landing on her neck, causing her spine and knee to pop
through her skin. Sam consoles a depressed Peter.
The
next day, the group is all together at their workplace and they all
start drinking to relax. Isaac is going through dead co-workers'
desks, and he comes across a gift card for a Chinese massage parlor.
Isaac arrives, flirting with many of the women, but is taken care of
by an old Chinese woman who speaks English but simply refuses to
speak to Isaac. She later does acupuncture on him, and leaves him in
a room where the walls are soundproof. As Isaac rolls over on his
bed, the leg of it caves in, sending him to the ground, pushing the
needles into his body. He staggeringly gets up, but a bottle of
alcohol causes a fire from a candle falling after Isaac's phone
vibrates and knocks over the candle. Isaac avoids the contained fire,
but as he waits against the wall, a shelved Buddha falls and crushes
his head. Bludworth, who has been present for all of the deaths so
far, is there and tells the remaining survivors that there is another
way to avoid Death. They would have to kill someone to gain their
remaining days on Earth. Peter revels in the idea to where it makes
him crazy. Agent Jim Block (Courtney
B. Vance)
is covering the case of Sam and his friends, but he finds all of the
deaths hard to believe.
Olivia
goes to get eye surgery the same day, and the doctor straps her head
into place. Olivia, fearful, holds a teddy bear, and as the doctor
puts in tools to keep her eyes open, she rips off an eye from the
bear. Olivia is told by the doctor to wait, but the glass of water
Olivia placed on the water-cooler earlier drops down on the outlet,
causing a short-circuit and laser machine malfunction, overheating.
As Olivia reaches for the remote control in panic, it drops on the
floor, and the button to begin surgery is pressed. The laser slices
her eye open. The laser goes off a few more times, and it burns
through her hand and scars her face. She then escapes the machine.
Sam and Molly, and the doctor run in to see a scared Olivia, and she
trips on the teddy bear's eye. She falls through the window onto a
parked car, and falls off as her eye rolls away to be run over by a
car.
Nathan is
in the construction area, and he is talking to Roy, an angry employee
of his. Nathan immediately sees a beam move closer to him with a hook
under it. Nathan urges Roy to move, but he accidentally pushes him
backwards as the hook falls, and Roy is stopped from landing on the
spikes below. Nathan then sees Roy has been impaled by the hook
through the head. As the group comes together, Peter finds that
Nathan accidentally killed Roy, taking his days, skipping him in
Death's design. Meanwhile, as Dennis grills them all, a wrench that
Roy placed on a machine is twisted into Dennis's face, the long
way.
Later
that night, in Le Miro 81, the cafe Sam cooks for, his mentor lets
him become an apprentice in Paris. He also lets Sam have the
restaurant for the night, after closing, to spend it with Molly.
Peter crashes the dinner, and he tells a story of how he tried to
push a woman in front of a truck to steal her life. Peter admits he
couldn't do such an act, and he then ponders Candice's death and how
she didn't deserve to die, yet Molly supposedly survived Sam's
vision. Peter then tries to kill Molly. Molly takes refuge in the
kitchen, and Sam fights off Peter before Agent Block is shot by
Peter, taking his years. The struggle leads to a gun being placed on
the burning stove, but as Peter is about to kill Molly, Sam stabs him
in the back with a large skewer. Then Sam ponders whether that means
he now has the Agent Block's years.
Two
weeks later, Sam and Molly are boarding a plane to Paris, and she
asks for the window seat. As they are boarding, a group of high
schoolers fight, as a kid is kicked off with several students and a
teacher. During take off, Sam overhears that the kid claimed to have
a vision that the plane was going to explode. Sam freaks out as he
looks at his plane ticket, which reads "Flight 180." The
plane begins to explode as the kid, revealed as Alex Browning,
predicted. Molly is sucked out the side, and is cut in half by the
wing as the rest of plane catches fire, burning Sam to death. As the
plane goes down in flames, a flame-engulfed engine falls. Nathan is
at a local bar, and he is talking to a guy who reveals that Roy would
have died in the next few days after his actual death involving the
hook anyway, because he was ill. Nathan is worried as the guy walks
away saying "Life is a bitch." Then the flaming landing
gear from Flight 180 crashes through the bar and crushes Nathan to
death, ultimately revealing the film to be a prequel to the events of
the original Final Destination.
Final Destination Bloodlines
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Came out; 2025
Time; 1 hours 50 Minutes
Watched: Max
Rated: R for strong violent/gruesome accidents and some language
IMDB Rating; 6.8%
Rotten Tomatoes:
Tomato Meter 93%
Popcorn Meter 87%
Caution; Spoiler Alert
Staring;
Kaitlyn Santa Juana as Stefani Reyes
Teo Briones as Charlie Reyes
Rya Kihlstedt as Darlene Campbell
Richard Harmon as Erik
Owen Patrick-Joyner as Bobby
Anna Lore as Julia
Alex Zahara as Uncle Howard
April Telek as Aunt Belinda
Tinpo Lee as Marty Reyes
Tony Todd as Bludworth
Story Line;
A teenage girl has recurring nightmares of a tower collapse in the 1960s. She discovers that these nightmares are a premonition she inherited from her grandmother. The grandmother predicted the collapse of the building and saved a group of people from death. Decades later, the granddaughter begins to have visions of her family members dying. She realizes that there is a sequence and must fight to prevent Death from reclaiming her family's bloodline
Thoughts:
This was terrible. The beginning sequences and the way it ties together with the end is good, but the entire middle is a hot piece of garbage.
The deaths just got worse and not better. The first two movies worked because the death scenes weren't “Head explodes with pressure” type, it was more realistic.
CAUTION; Spoiler Alert
In
1968, Iris Campbell and her fiancé Paul attend the opening ceremony
of the Skyview, a high-rise restaurant tower. At the dance party,
Iris has a premonition of a chandelier's shard cracking the glass
floor beneath the guests while a gas leak explodes, collapsing the
tower and killing everyone.
In
the present, college student Stefani Reyes suffers from recurring
nightmares about the collapse. Realizing that the nightmares are
linked to her maternal grandmother, Iris, she returns home seeking
answers and is greeted by her father, Marty, and her estranged
brother, Charlie. The siblings visit their uncle Howard, aunt Brenda,
and cousins Erik, Julia, and Bobby. When Stefani asks Howard about
Iris, he explains that Iris subjected him and Stefani's mother
Darlene to an overprotective upbringing, then became reclusive,
causing Darlene to abandon the family. Brenda helps Stefani find
letters from Iris, leading her to a fortified cabin where Iris now
lives.
Terminally
ill, Iris tells Stefani she disrupted Death's design by preventing
the tower's collapse, saving the lives of everyone there that night.
As a result, Death began killing the survivors in the order they
would've died at the Skyview, along with their descendants who were
never meant to exist. Paul later died in an accident, prompting Iris
to document Death's omens in a book and live in isolation to prevent
it from going after her family. Though Stefani is skeptical, Iris
leaves the cabin to give her the book and allows herself to be
impaled by a weather vane to prove her claims.
After
Iris's funeral, Darlene returns, but Stefani resents her for being
absent ever since she was a child. Stefani reads Iris' book and sees
a reference to someone Iris knew named JB, who found someone that
defeated Death. During a family barbecue, a chain reaction causes
Howard to be killed by a lawn mower. Stefani creates a diagram of all
the families that were born because of her grandmother Iris and tries
to explain death's design to her family. But they refuse to believe
her thinking she is crazy and that Iris's death was just a horrific
accident.
That
night, another chain reaction causes a fire at Erik's tattoo shop,
but he survives due to his leather clothing. Stefani and Charlie meet
Erik on the road to protect him from street hazards, but instead
witness Julia being accidentally thrown into a garbage truck and is
unable to save her from being crushed to death by the garbage truck's
compactor. The family finally realizes that Death is coming for them
in order of age, starting with Howard's branch of the family before
moving onto Darlene's. Marty and Brenda are spared, as they are not
blood relatives, and Erik is spared due to being the result of
Brenda's affair.
Darlene
suggests visiting JB at a hospital, who turns out to be William
Bludworth. Present at the Skyview as a child and the last to die in
the premonition, he reveals that he spent most of his life exchanging
ideas with Iris to learn Death's rules. He explains two ways to
defeat Death: taking another life and gain their remaining time or
dying and being revived, citing Kimberly Corman as a successful
example. Retiring from his job as the mortician, Bludworth leaves the
hospital, expecting to succumb to his own illness after Iris's
bloodline dies, and wishes the family luck before departing.
Erik
convinces Bobby to employ Bludworth's second strategy, where he feeds
Bobby a snack containing nuts, which he is allergic to, so he could
be subsequently revived. The plan backfires when a malfunctioning MRI
machine rips Erik's piercings out, pulls him in, and impales him with
a wheelchair. Another chain reaction causes a coil from a vending
machine to be launched and drilled into Bobby's head. Despite Erik
seemingly being safe, Stefani reasons that his intervention trying to
help Bobby put him on the list too. Stefani, Charlie and Darlene
decide to drive to Iris's fortified cabin, intending to hide from
Death. The RV crashes, and Stefani's seat belt jams. The cabin
explodes after a chain reaction, sending the RV into the water as
Stefani begins to drown. Darlene saves Charlie and pleads with him to
rescue Stefani before a lamp post bisects her. Charlie breaks the
seat belt and successfully resuscitates Stefani with CPR.
A
week later, while preparing for prom, the father of Charlie's date
tells the siblings that Stefani's heart never stopped, meaning she
was unconscious not dead when Charlie revived her. As a result, they
both realize that death is still coming for them, a chain reaction
causes a nearby train to derail, which the two manage to barely
evade. They believe that they managed to cheat death again, but they
learn too late that the chain reaction isn't over and are
subsequently killed by falling logs and the screen fades to black.
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