I wasn't going to give it a chance after the last installment of the franchise, but I'm glad I did. The deaths aren't so far out there that there is no way in hell there could ever be the correct circumstances for them to take place as in past installments. I generally like the characters well except the douche who feels his girlfriend shouldn't have died and everyone else should have. There's always one.
Anywho, FD5 follows the same premise as the rest of them . Some one has a vision that death is about to get them and they freak out. A group of people follow them to safety only to be picked off one by one to settle death's list. Tony Todd does his job again of providing the key to survival and progress the mania. Although once you see the ending of the movie his "I've seen this before" speech half way through is an "ah ha" moment. Fair warning I will spoil the ending later. You've been warned.
Sam has a vision that the bridge his bus is on is going to collapse. He freaks out gets himself and a group of others to safety just in time to watch the bus and the bridge fall into the lake below. Now the fun starts. I'm not going to go through all of the deaths just a couple.
The first death takes place at a gym where Candice is practicing her gymnastics. Shit goes down and she ends up folded in half on the gym floor. There's a line about the first death after it happens that made me laugh. Olivia says she wonders how it doesn't happen all the time. I've thought that same thing many a time during the Olympics.
The 3rd death is Olivia's and it freaked me out. I wear glasses and would like to get Lasik. However after seeing the laser blind her I'm rethinking that decision. That poor teddy bear got his eye ripped off in the process. Poor teddy.
Now Tony Todd comes back as the how to survive death guy. He's wearing a coroner's jacket this time around and in past movies he was a funeral home mortician. I looked around at the various Wiki's and other info and everything said he was still a funeral home mortician but that coroner's jacket and medical examiner's van threw me off. Oh well. Nice to see him back after not being in the last movie.
Over all it is the same old same old for the franchise. Not as far out as the last movie which is good. I still can't drive behind a log truck on the highway thanks to these movies. The end of this movie is what makes it different and a nice change to the series.
Now here's where I'm going to spoil the ending. Go away now if you don't want to know. But come back for another installment of my musings later!!!
Ending Spoilers ahead!!!
So the whole movie Sam is talking about going to Paris to take this apprenticeship. Paris, Paris, Paris, it's mentioned 18 thousand times throughout the movie. We never see any type of newspaper or date anywhere, but we do see a pic of Olivia on the roller coaster from the 3rd movie. I'm mad at myself as a props master for not catching on to the lack of smart phones and the phones that we did see being so out of date. This whole movie is a prequel! Sam and his girlfriend survive (she was going to live anyway) only to end up on Flight 180 to Paris. We actually see Devon Sawa freak out and get removed from the plane. And then they die. It was a nice way to round out the series. If they continue to make any more sequels I'll still watch them but I can't imagine where'd they go from here other than to explain Tony Todd's background and how he knows so much.
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