Final Destination 5 3D- Not only one of the best 3D movies I have witnessed so far, but also one of the top films I have seen this summer. Not because it is all that genius, it's actually quite dumb. It's because the producers and filmmaker understood their intentions so well that for the first time since the original, it delivers what the audience has wanted from the series. Also, it's wicked fun in a theater full of gasp and ughs. The cast is fine, I mean, Nicholas D'Agosto (Fired Up, Rocket Science) does well with what he's given, not that any of the performances are oscar material. The real genius is in the way people are killed. Even though you know the person is going to die (which is the reason many see the films in the franchise), you have no idea how, which makes it all the more glamorous when the movie outlandishly destroys your expectations. The gymnastic sequence was wild and certainly had me on the edge of my seat which is quite a good task. There is just something about the nail on the balance beam that hits everybody's nerves in the theater. On the ending, I can't say more than that it pretty much made it the best film in the series (although the payoff to this one requires viewing the first one), leaving the message that not only can you hardly cheat death on a tradeoff level, but that death is always around the corner, whether you are escaping it or just a small part of a bigger picture that is yet unfolded. I know it's cryptic, but so is death, and so is this film. The film gives off the fact that even escaping death doesn't mean that death won't come knocking again (especially if you are a good looking actor). Deemed, worth the $3.50 I had to pay to get 3D glasses (free movie tuesday doesn't cover 3D glasses and all the other films were sold out).
30 Minutes or Less- This film is retarded on any level outside of an entertaining one, so it's a good thing it has a lot of entertainment value. Jesse Eisenberg and Comedian Aziz Ansari are a average pair, if not just as flawed as their characters are written, and the film really rides off of their work together. Sure, Danny McBride and other Comedian Nick Swardson do good work together as well, but at the core, they really are only the support on this bridge (ironically the falling structure in 'Final Destination 5'). McBride and Swardson act like the wild monkeys they mask as (also seems odd that this should come up in the second week of 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes') and Eisenberg and Ansari mask as their own alter egos, bank robbers. The robbery sequence is easily the funniest bit in the movie, providing both some comedic moments amongst a should-be tense moment, and also an interesting fact about bank money trickery. The biggest problem with the film really is the climax, which raps up all too quickly and ambiguously and without further explanation. This is light, fun, and fast paced, but overall would make just as good of a rental than as a theater viewing.
- Jeff Bassin
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