Final Destination

By Jeff Niesel

In the opening scene of The Final Destination, Nick (Bobby Campo) is sitting at a racetrack with his girlfriend Lori (Shantel VanSanten) and their two friends, Janet (Haley Webb) and Hunt (Nick Zano). He suddenly has a premonition that something’s about to go terribly wrong and in a flash he sees a car spin out of control and fly into the crowd, setting off a chain of events that leaves numerous people dead, some of them impaled and decapitated. In a panic, he makes his friends leave the venue and they escape to safety in the parking lot. But you can’t cheat death, and Nick soon learns that everyone whose life he saved is going to die a grisly, uncanny death. We see a woman who has her eye blown out by an errant rock hurled her way by a lawn mower. A two truck drags another guy to death. And one poor soul gets crushed up against a fence, his body parts squeezed through the opening holes like bits of sausage. The campy movie makes the best of its special effects, but bad acting and a rote script can’t save this clunker of a film.