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Final Destination 5 is the Surprisingly Improved Sequel to 4, and boy does it show. A horrific premonition, creative and realistic deaths, the concept of "Taking another's life for yours", and one of the biggest whammies that changes the nature of the movie by the end.
- The North Bay bridge collapse scene. No Artistic License in this disaster at all, unlike the Devil's Flight accident or the speedway catastrophe. One minute, the bridge you are on is sturdy, but the next, it's all coming apart. Even scarier when you realize that bridge collapses like that can occur in real life. Some of the deaths are NOT pretty as well.
- Candice falls off the bridge and gets impaled by a sailboat's mast, spilling her guts.
- Isaac either dies from blunt force trauma when the bus hits the water or drowning. Either possibility is not a pleasant one.
- Olivia falls off the bridge in an attempt to get to the other (safe) side but emerges from the water unharmed. Then a car falls off and crushes her.
- Dennis falls off the edge, but manages to grab a set of bars and avoid falling. However, a tanker is then thrown over, and he is doused in scorching hot tar before falling. To make matters worse, he doesn't fall off because he reflexively let go, but his fingers slide out of his skin.
- Peter gets impaled by multiple metal bars from a construction car and on the way down, he hits one of the supporters of the bridge.
- Sam gets bisected by a metal sheet from the same truck.
- Candice Hooper's death. The screw which was on the gymnastics beam was bad enough. It looked like she was going to slice her Achilles tendon open or something. The actual death takes it up to eleven: her broken and bloodied body twitches several times, along with her femur sticking out of her leg.
- One YouTube user decided to create a video where they played music from the Nintendo Mii Channel over the screw scene
- despite the calm music, most people agreed that it only made the scene even more uncomfortable to watch. - That scene is even scarier for people who have, at one point or another, had Agony of the Feet. It's clearly not what would kill someone, but just being reminded of that pain is enough to make one wince.
- In the same scene, when water is dripping on an electric cable, the cable has a socket in it that looks disturbingly skull-like.
- The sheer tension of the entire thing, just waiting for something to go horribly wrong with the several problems in the scene, but seemingly none of them happening or being narrowly avoided multiple times before the accident itself. Will it be the fan blades spontaneously going haywire? The exposed cable coated in water? Maybe that screw in the gymnastics bar coming loose? Or maybe someone will just be a bit too clumsy on the landing...
- One YouTube user decided to create a video where they played music from the Nintendo Mii Channel over the screw scene
- The LASIK surgery scene. Holy crap. Even if LASIK doesn't work that way, which should be comforting, but really isn't.
- The whole concept of "Taking another's life for yours": if you're on Death's list, you can kill a person who wasn't even on Death's list, be it on purpose or by mistake, they take your spot on the list and you get their lifespan and you're home free. Sounds fair and well, but then conflict comes in, do you have what it takes to kill a completely innocent person who wasn't even on Death's list, just so you can live longer? It gets worse as you realize that even if you do kill a person, you don't know how long they were even gonna be alive! For all you know, the person can either live for a long time before dying or suddenly die the next day, week, maybe even next hour. The countdown to your impending death doesn't help things either.
- And, to make it worse, you still count as Death balancing the book. Your victim might have had a natural death planned for them, but you won't. And you won't be able to get agency over it by taking your own life because Death will stop that too. It will be some horrible, graphic, convoluted accident that you won't see coming. If you are lucky, it will at least be quick, but that's sadly unlikely.
- Even then, Death will get you even if you do keep killing people - eventually you'll be labeled as a "Serial Killer" (probably by one of Death's "servants") who will arrest you and put you in prison, so that you can't keep killing people... which means your biological clock will eventually run out and Death will get you.
- And, to make it worse, you still count as Death balancing the book. Your victim might have had a natural death planned for them, but you won't. And you won't be able to get agency over it by taking your own life because Death will stop that too. It will be some horrible, graphic, convoluted accident that you won't see coming. If you are lucky, it will at least be quick, but that's sadly unlikely.
- Isaac getting impaled on acupuncture needles, almost burning to death, and having his head crushed by a Buddha statue... Just... Damn. Sure, the bloke in question was a complete Jerkass and being incredibly racist to the receptionist but damn was that harsh.
- What is with that noise when that wrench gets launched into Dennis' eyes?
- His fate in the premonition isn't very great either, he gets boiling tar poured over him. You can hear his muffled screams of agony as he slips out of his skin to fall to his death which would be a Mercy Kill at that point.
- The way Sam and Molly are killed during the Flight 180 plane explosion. Molly gets thrown out a hole torn in the cabin and bisected by the plane's fin while Sam is visually roasted alone. The scene is even slowed down to show the fire engulfing him as he screams in pain. Yeesh.
- Sam's death is even creepier when you notice that it is almost shot exactly like Alex's death in the original film's premonition.
- And Molly's bisection is cruelly similar to Sam's death in his own vision, meaning Sam got to watch the woman he loved die in the same horrible way he'd personally experienced via premonition.
- Peter's twisted chain of reasoning as he builds up to his attack on Molly is chilling, not just because of the danger, but also because of how coldly he's rationalizing the premeditated murder of his only surviving friends.
