The Final Destination 3D

Death Lives a Fourth Time to Ply His Trade

EXPLOITING equally the pleasures of shock and familiarity, slasher movies are so rule-bound as to be ritualistic. There is a psychotic killer on the loose. There is a cast of pretty young things, picked off one by one. And there is, after a protracted and bloody struggle, a lone, almost inevitably female survivor — the Final Girl, in the memorable formulation of the film theorist Carol J. Clover — who usually plays a part in the killer’s demise.
The “Final Destination” series takes this simple blueprint beyond simplicity. [...]

di Dennis Lim, articolo completo (6608 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 21 Agosto 2009