The Final Destination

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1144884/

2009- watched via comcast on demand

So here we have the 4th installment of the Final Destination series. I believe I have watched the other 3 at one point or another. I also feel like one of those was a good movie. Most likely the first in the series. That must be why I keep subjecting my wife to such mediocre crap. And I really thing mediocre best describes this series. They obviously have some budget to work with and get some decent effects out of it but as usual the acting and story are just mediocre. Here in the 4th installment the storyline pretty much reads the same as the other 3 from what I can remember. Group of folks survive catastrophe due to some kind of future vision and rest of the movie is spent trying to avoid elaborate almost Rube Goldberg'esk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg_machine sequences that inevitability lead to doom. There are 2 notable things about this film. The first is it's run time, it's fairly short which always makes me happy. Something about investing 3 hours watching crap drives me nuts. 2 hours? No problem. Anyhow the second item of note is the first 10 minutes. This like the others in the series is when the big event that sets everything else in motion occurs. In the case of the forth it's a nascar race. I believe the prior instalments involved a plane and a roller coaster and something I can't recall. So this nascar race is what makes this movie worth a watch. The whole affair is so over the top with gore that it's really hysterical. Beyond that best to stop watching or suffer my wife's fate...