Of course it’s not that simple as each death is a study in physics and serendipity that leaves the audience laughing, cheering or oohing at the grossness and gore.

Final Destination 5 starts was an incredible title sequence that is somewhere between art house and a performance art installation display. It is absolutely spellbinding if you are a fan of 3D like myself. We are then introduced to group of disparate office workers as they are about to head off on a team building exercise. Each of the characters has their own personality traits and is played in a different way by their respective performers. The character bits that I enjoyed the most were the one line zingers and quirkiness. Others don’t play their roles as entertainingly.

The story then moves quite quickly from here and we follow the team’s bus as it is becomes stuck in traffic on a large suspension bridge. Predictably disaster strikes, mayhem and some of the most hilariously over the top death scenes follow. If you have ever been to a press screening, you know that it is a bit like a poker game and all the audience/players are po-faced as they cast their critical eye over the directors naked work - the only sound in the cinema is usually the rustle of clothing as they slowly remove their knives from their inner jacket pockets and the short low ringing as they then sharpen them in preparation of their forthcoming reviews.

The Final Destination 5 screening did not follow this pattern though, as their was lots of chuckling, giggling, oohing and ahhing as well cheers with each over the top death scenes.

Pretty soon I was feeling like a kid watching the rare 3D releases that came up one in a while in the 80s (El tesoro de las cuatro coronas aka Treasure of the Four Crowns, Comin' at Ya!, Jaws 3D, Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone 3D)

They were usually really bad as the plot and acting were really just vehicles to get from one 3D effect to another - but had such a high entertainment value that I loved every minute of it. Just to clarify I am not implying that Final Destination 5 is as bad as those films I’m just saying that I was as entertained by it, as much as those films of my youth.