Review of The Final Destination (2009) by Ronnie G — 21 Mar 2013
It has a great concept that really could have been scary, but it takes on the wrong tone and suffers from being underdeveloped. It winds up being a brain-dead movie aimed at teens, which is a total lost opportunity.
It gets off to a strong start where a premonition creates a wrinkle in death's design by a group of people get off a plane before it blows up. An effective and darkly ironic sense of fate comes into play where death will correct no matter what you do to avoid it.
You soon know what will happen but you do not know how, and that is unnerving. Sadly, the good setup is only amounts to one senseless kill scene after another. The fundamental flaw of the movie is that the viewer is emotionally detached from nearly all of these characters, so that you will enjoy the process of them dying off on at a time.
If you do not care about any of the characters it is hard to care about anything that happens in the movie. Another misstep was how the death scenes are over the top and too farfetched to take seriously.
They unfortunately come off as darkly humorous rather than frightening. This movie is misguided and a really good concept is squandered and it results in a mediocre series of kill scenes.
This review of The Final Destination (2009) was written by Ronnie G on 21 Mar 2013.
The Final Destination has generally received mixed reviews.
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