Okay so admittedly, the visual effects for Final Destination 5 aren't the most realistic or the most magical. The 'blood' looks more like honey colored with red food coloring. It irks me when the bodies were sliced and diced in the air looking like cartoon characters rather than humans.
And the characters were also set in implausible positions that one has to watch the scene again to believe what they are seeing. It's either kudos to the actors for some badass flexibility or the film's Visual Effects supervisor Ariel Velasco Shaw.
After an antagonizing 5 minutes wait for Candice to fall and die, she snaps into two. Her bones splitting the skin of her leg, her body is bent backwards and her legs are sitting precisely as if orchestrated neatly atop her torso with her spinal cord in pieces.
Let's not forget the Olivia's scene in the Lasik clinic. Olivia's right eyelid is pulled apart by a tweezers-like device leaving half her right eye exposed. Accidents happen, a laser cuts her hand and eye with a clean red line before falling a distance out the window.
The eyeball, which has dislodged from its' eye socket is unbelievably shiny and bloodless even after having been run over by a truck. A tad too graceful for a gruesome death in my opinion.
Nonetheless it's still a fascinating sight to watch. While the unrealism persists for the bulk of the film, the massive use of green screen will not fail your money's worth. Shaw has hiked up the levels of gore though the use of visual effects so much, that regardless of how impossible something is, it still freaks you out to repulsive levels. Don't be surprised if you find yourself curling back in disgust.
So what do you think about the visual effects -go or no go? Leave your thoughts in the comments below!
Perhaps next time when you watch a film and you see something you think is "impossible", you might want to reconsider the probability of green screen. ;-]
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