2011 1:31 Jason David Frank action fantasy Via TUBI
A soldier finds himself thrust into the heart of an ancient war between mankind and dragons. Prophesied as the next Dragon Warrior, our hero must fight through an army of creatures to reach his target; the mother of all dragons.
first words in the movie Hello Ranger (thank goodness I didn’t have a sip of my beverage… it would have been all over the screen)
The fight scenes are NOT up to Jason’s Level. I don’t know if the other actors were just that with no Martial arts experience or barely if even novice . The Cinematography was bad as far as the fight scenes. And I’d swear some of the fights were slow BECAUSE JDF was leading them (trying to remind/show’ them what’s next. Really crappy FX
All the green of the forest was very bright
Not sure what sort of age range the movie was for, as there’s no Rating, For me it was way too simple for adults but didn’t feel like it was made for kids either.
The Dragon looked more like a Lochness monster with wings.
I’m Glad JDF didn’t write or direct it as I feel bad as is having to give a bad review and the movie (or anything of his) an F!
Title: FInal Destination Franchise
Series: Final Destination
Genre: Horror
Publisher: RATED: R
Release Date: 2000- 2011
Format: Movie
Pages: 1 hr 30+ mins
group of students try to cheat death after an initial one of them has a premonition
I decided to not only do a review of Final Destination 2 but to do so for the Overall Final Destination Franchise as the movies intertwine in ways.
Final Destination and Final Destination 2 (or as I call it Destination Death), I think were the best horror movies of the early 2000s, Frankly for the fact they were able to creep us out and make some to most of us paranoid or at least hyper alert. I think they still are, in their own way especially if it’s the first time you have seen them (though it would have been better if you were able to in the theater, I think that’s how or why a lot of us got that hyper alertness. They are definitely the superior to other horror movies around the time and definitely so to those that came next in the series.
On another note why they were so awesome some (one in particular in the 5th movie is the most (add your own adjective) deaths. I must say one of my Top 3 favorites if its not ty or the franchises #1death comes in the 5th movie.
I loved this when it was first out. You left the theater being very alert, maybe more like paranoid. One year I was going away to Toronto on the plane & it was playing on one of the movie channels or I popped it in the dvd player. Well bad idea. This was the fouth time i was going to Toronto and for the first time there was turbulance! I basically scared myself and almost started to freak out on the plane.
The second horror series that I know of Tony Todd aka Candy-man being in. I don’t know which character creeps me out more.. Though I haven’t watched candy-man in ages, I think it’s more the bees in the mouth than anything. But he is freaking creepy as hell in this and always get a chill when he’s on screen!
Final Destination 2
while re-watching to do a Top 5 Favorite Deaths & Lead ups still gave me the goosebumps (it could have been the chill in the NY air. This one follows a group that was on their way for a road trip and the driver has a premonition and then see it run in real time. Again they have to figure out the order of how each would have died in the accident. There’s some fake outs to make you jittery; flinch and some of the actual deaths that well… you watch and see. Frankly giving a full review of any of these movies would ruin it for others not only in plot, twists and other ways but I don’t want to chance ruining that ‘paranoid’ feeling after seeing them.
added Creepiness fact:
1. freaked me out a bit.. the girls name is Kim (I did hear right, right?)
2. Where she goes to Stonybrook in White plains.. That city is not far from where I live
I think it’s great how each one of the sequals while in a way all similar with a ‘routine’ outline of:
Premonition
the event happening
figuring out what order everyone dies in
‘cheating’ death (or do they really)
Then they all have someting in common as a group, and so not to give anything away, they could have been a friend, family member, kicked off the trip and so on.
Final Destination 3
I like each of the different plots the first being the Plane, then the 2nd with the road trip and although the 3rd didn’t make you hyper alert like the first 2 did. However being its central figure is the Rollercoaster, and though I never went on one, but my friends almost fell out of one as the safety bar didn’t lock in.
The Final Destination
They are all connected in some way to each other as a whole! I don’t remember much of this one being as I haven’t watched it in years, but my dvd copy is the ‘create your own movie’ edition.
THE Final Destination– This was the one that was at a race track, and was a great idea for 3-d. With the 3rd movie (and frankly the first 2) I haven’t watched any of the movies in years. (since 2006 I think aside from what ever came out in the theater after) Watching these as a marathon, I think might be a bit much especially since the 3rd movie on just didn’t have the magic the original 2 did. I wil say though the 3rd I liked better than this one as this one the build up (lead up “domino effect’ before the deaths were not what they were inthe previous movies, and the deaths happen too fast to me. They didn’t have much shock factor to me except for maybe 1 or 2 of them. Also some of the CGI was cruddy and I don’t mean the 3D cheesiness of this one. I mean when the arena is crumbling & big blocks fall the effects are not clean and smooth. Yes this one is good in the way that the deaths are more likely to happen in the real world even if some of these may have been a bit exaggerated. I remember hearing in the news
about young boy getting stuck in the pool on the filter or whatever it’s called. I was thinking that because of this maybe if I am not already desensitized to it, then maybe (and I will have to check on this) there were new writers and (or) the director(s) changed.
Haven’t seen it yet? (any of them at all? WOW! Well I suggest a marathon. Binge watch it or watch one each day of the week. When you are done come back to vote in the poll and check out the Top 10 Final Destination Deaths by Kristen Ashley from IHorror
Final Destination 5
The TRUE final Destination!
This one has to do with some company cathering going on a Bus trip which ends up on a bridge undergoing construction (Which out Old Tappan Zee brige until recently when they finally decided to just build a new one. (Why can’t our cities counties etc throw up a kickstarter campain instead of always making the tolls and taxes higher?) anyway so now every time I go on the bridge (it’s still the old one) I’m just ready to pop out the door and run (even jump into the Hudson River if I have to!)
This one has 3d cheesiness in it but the series comes full circle. In a way that it hurts my head, but if I tell you it ruins the twist
This time the rules seem to have changed! The only way you get your life back is to kill someone, and you get their remaining time. So no more save so and so and it skips to next person. But that their remaining life part… is a total Bitch! To a character or 2! But a little funny as well, in a morbid way.
As for the ending well that is the twist and I’d say it’s pretty big as I didn’t see it coming when I first saw it. I thought it was cool how they wrapped up the series. Although now that I think of it, that last one is more than just one twist!
The Best Death was the Gymnastics meet, there’s so many domino effects the suspense kills me everytime!
The Funniest- Dennis (Final One)
Haven’t seen it yet? (any of them at all? WOW! Well I suggest a marathon binge watch it or watch one each day of the week. When you are done come back to vote in the poll and check out the Top 10 Final Destination Deaths by Kristen Ashley from IHorror
My Favorite Top 5 Deaths & Lead up (to a death) or as I call it the Domino Effect :
Domino Effect) (1 from each most likely though I’m going to have to re-watch a couple for my fave from those)
(They are in the order of the movie they were in)
#1 Domino Effect & Death The teacher
#2 Domino= The Pile Up Individual Either the dentist or the Neurotic girl Death= the stoner dude + the Bonus
#3 Domino= Coaster or Ian & GF Death= TIE
*Frank @ Fast food chain or
Lewis @ Training Camp + What i call the Triple Double at the end
#4 Domino= wow I can’t decide which, The Hair salon or the movie theater. Death= The Mechanic
The ending but would have been cooler if they had not changed the scene to the way they did the credits. That disappointed me and ruined the whole movie for me.
#5 Domino= Death= the gymnastics actually made me feel sick
Best non-death scene = Eugene (the guy on Motorcycle) in the cop’s apartment
The ending of the 5th one is great as well but I don’t want to ruin it
Frankly if you don’t watch all of them, Ii’d say just watch the first 2. They are the ones when you left the theater you had that heightened paranoid alertness.
If there’s ever a time they do a reboot I have their answer with the next ‘destination’ (and always wondered Why they didn’t do )a 6th with A Ship (like a cruise). Maybe they can even do the cliched his sort of thing happens every so many years. Or when a certain amount of people cheat death. I got it…
FINAL DESTINATION 666: Cruise to Hell or Hell sets sail
They’re destination is somewhere near the Bermuda Triangle, when a storm hits and they are knocked off course and into the Triangle.Let’s go with 13 passengers survive but of course at least 2-3 (Either Survivors or when whatever accident happens (or almost happens) on the ship. people end up in the water And yes I want one to be a brutal shark attack, another would have to do with the legend of previous craft going missing, and the 3rd Trying to come up with that one.
Now our 13 survivors, however they make it, we don’t just have individual deaths. Some are, some couples others a group. If you are going to do a remake, reboot or whatever you DON’T mess wit the original, you keep the ‘chemistry’ (Trip, premonition, cheat death, and of course then everyone starts getting killed) BUT you HAVE to beat the death count, Up the gore, and just be over the top as these days remakes/reboots some seem to be sequels.
Psychology students visiting a prison for the criminally insane for some extga credit. A code orange goes off for an intake and Ally, (one of the students) is attacked for peeking when no eye contact, was part of protocol for safety.
The prisoner escapes and slashes everyone that gets in his way to get to Ally (I think was her name).
There’s a spooky ambiance to me. I swear I feel like something is going to jump out and try to scare me. WHY can’t this sort of thing exist in actual horror movies? it feels like a slasher flick (well in a sense I guess it is, but not in the Freddy and Jason way I mean.) but even their movies (well except for maybe the first Nightmare) couldn’t even build up the fear or some paranoia for the audience.
Not sure if I’d say it was good aside from the feels. One of the cops I thought was Henry Cavill at first (a quick look at the guy) though when you get a good look definitely not but almost equally as handsome.
I guess its worth a watch, I do still remember some scenes but not enough of them to explain.
After Chris’ mother steals and sells his coke, and puts her son in a dangerous debt, father and son plot to have her offed for her insurance money.
They hire killer Joe, who turns out to be in law enforcement and does this on the side of his job!
They use the daughter as collateral to tide joe over until the job is done and can give him the money. Of course there’s a big bump in their plan that does not bode well for them.
I will give this 2nd poster props as it is one twisted ‘trailer park murder story’ but apparently not twisted enough to leave an impression on me. I guess I would think most might appreciate this, but I hate when movies feel longer than they are. I prefer movies to hold my attention and with this one it waned. there’s also scenes that go on too long in my point of view, that I started to play games on my kindle or getting other things done.
one follows a group that was on their way for a road trip and the driver has a premonition and then see it run in real time. Again they have to figure out the order of how each would have died in the accident. There’s some fake outs to make you jittery; flinch and some of the actual deaths that well… you watch and see. Frankly giving a full review of any of these movies would ruin it for others not only in plot, twists and other ways but I don’t want to chance ruining that ‘paranoid’ feeling after seeing them.
The TRUE final Destination!
Multiscreen MoTVision 