Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on September 2011

I actually liked the first few Final Destination flicks. If you don’t know, the decade-old franchise has to do with one person having a precognitive experience that saves several stereotypical friends from horrible deaths, only to have Death (thy name is Rube Goldberg) pick them off later in elaborate, gleefully gory ways. But recent FD flicks have been coasting in cheap-thrills land. This time the theme is skewering, and it is revealed that you can trade fates and life spans with another person by murdering them. Nice. Nifty snake-biting-its-tail ending bit that cleverly relates to the first movie.