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Final Destination 5

FINAL DESTINATION 5 directed by Steven Quale, written by Eric Heisserer, with Nicholas D’Agosto, Emma Bell, Jacqueline MacInnes Wood and Tony Todd. A Warner Bros. release. 95 minutes. Opens Friday (August 12). See listing Rating: NNN


After the underwhelming third and fourth instalments, the Final Destination series returns to goofball form, making the franchise’s elaborate deathtraps fun again.

This time it’s the survivors of a disastrous bridge collapse who discover that Death doesn’t like being cheated, and are thus trapped one by one in ridiculous, Rube Goldbergian mechanisms involving loose screws, leaky air conditioners, unsupervised factory equipment and – in the film’s biggest set piece – an over-amped surgical laser.

Unique among horror films, the FD movies play equally well as comedies, building each sequence with careful set-ups and crowd-pleasing punchlines – and encouraging the audience to actively root for the deaths of everyone on screen.

Director Steven Quale invests the production with a little more wit than usual. You’re gonna want to keep an eye on the production design.

normw@nowtoronto.com

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