Mini Review and Spoiler: The Final Destination (2009) a.k.a. Final Destination 4

Spoiler alert! Don’t read if you somehow care about but don’t know what happens in this film.

The Final Destination is stupid! I mean really, really stupid. In fact, I’m a little upset at myself for deciding to watch it even though I had been warned not to. Yes, it is full of action, but it’s just one pointless death scene after another. It did have some really nice looking explosions; BUT, did we really need another film that’s been done three times before? At this point, the action isn’t enough to keep me interested in this film. Part of my beef with the film is that I feel like it accomplished absolutely nothing other than wasting my time. Everyone still dies no matter what they do. Every single person! Even the main character (Nick O’Bannon), who was having these so called premonitions, died. Supposedly, Death was playing a trick on these guys. It was leading the remaining survivors to their “real death” through these premonitions. I personally think that Death didn’t want to look stupid and inept at not being able to finish a job, so that’s what he told his friends…What’s the point of all this?

Now, I can see where this film could be fun to watch in 3-D in the theater if you take your brain out and let it run around for a while. It looked like it had a lot of debris, blood and guts, and explosions coming at you; however, I missed that train a long time ago, and I was stuck watching it on my little television with no 3D, so the stupidity wasn’t covered up by the 3-D effects. It also might be better with a big group of friends, but I won’t be the one to find out because I’m not watching this one ever again.

Time Until Action Starts: ~ 6 minutes

Baddies: Death/Fate! Boo on you writers! Come up with something different!

Best Line: Are you kidding? There weren’t any good lines, let alone a ‘best’ one!

Best Kill: There was no “Best Kill,” but there were a ton of ridiculously stupid kills, so I’ll have to change this category to Most Ridiculously Stupid Kill. Should it be when Hunt (Nick Zanno) got ALL of his innards sucked out through his butt by a pool drain? Or should it be when the mechanic (Andrew Fiscella) got hit by a CO2 tank so hard his body went through a chain linked fence like play dough being pushed through a spaghetti maker. Really!?! I know it probably looked cool in 3D, but last time I checked, humans had bones in their body.

Best Explosion: A long drawn out, ridonkulous chain of events happen so that several barrels full of gasoline behind a movie screen explode right as there is an explosion in the fake movie. The flames come through the screen killing everyone in the audience and exploding out into the lobby.

Action Rating: 3 The-people-making-this-film-didn’t-give-a-crap-so-why-should-I, out of 5.

This is the Action Flick Chick, and you’ve just been kicked in the ass!