prologue

I’ll begin with the opening credits, which are properly amazing. Great use of 3D, and a great use of shattering glass, they really were very impressive - probably the best 3D credits I’ve seen yet, which admittedly isn’t a very long list but still, it’s very good.”

There's a twist here that you most likely won't see coming, but that they've brilliantly hinted at throughout the film. It'll give any Final Destination fan a real kick, as will the opening credit sequence, which basically gives you a rundown of every murder implement ever used in all the previous films. This is definitely one of the more fan friendly iterations of the series.”

This was spectacular. The first time I saw it in the cinema, I was in complete awe. I had a progressively larger smile plastering itself across my face. It was stunning. It was such a thrill to witness all these familiar and almost nostalgic items crashing into slabs of glass, flying into my face (as how could I not see it in 3D?). Then during the other times I watched it at the cinema, my love for it increased. Plus, the backing track (aka Main Theme) is just… undoubtedly Godly.”

From the opening credits to the final kill this film displays a great use of 3-D.”

Right from the opening credits, seemingly innocuous items and broken glass came flying into my lap. It was a sure sign that I was going to enjoy the movie. And from then on, it didn't disappoint.”

Final Destination 5 is one of those movies you absolutely, positively have to see in 3D to truly appreciate the full effect. The movie starts off with 5 minutes of in your face visuals during the opening credits. Objects involved in the deaths of previous characters is thrown at you in slow motion while they shatter glass. The opening credits set the pace for the film with the over the top visuals that you can only appreciate in 3D.”

It’s also important to note that it is absolutely essential to see this film in 3D. The opening credits sequence makes one of the best uses of 3D that I have ever experienced, and it is an absolute blast.”

Before we even get to that, Final Destination 5 kicks off the bloody fun with a rocking opening credits sequence, reminiscent of The Final Destination in terms of the 3D twist it puts on past franchise deaths, but also kicking off the film’s successful attempt at outshining the series’ sole dud. And from there, it only gets better.”

If you absolutely MUST see Final Destination 5 see it in 3D. The opening title sequence alone is a festival to watch. Horror movies and 3D technology were made for one another, and Final Destination 5 takes every advantage of that art form.”

Final Destination 5 was shot in 3D and rarely has a film in 2011 utilized the technique so effectively... From the film’s opening credits, audiences are put on alert that the ways in which the characters die will literally be coming right at you.”

Final Destination 5 has been so well thought out by the studio that even the opening credits are a pleasure to watch, the names of cast and crew punctuated by a kaleidoscope of images made all the more penetrating by 3D technology.”

Before anything else, I would like to commend the filmmakers for one of the best opening credits I’ve seen. It was such a pleasure in my eyes; It utilized 3D in a way that it is not annoying: 3D art in its finest.”

This film’s opening sequence is undeniably spectacular.”

The opening credits have so much coming at you that it startles. If you have seen the first four films then you will find most of the weapons of death used in those flicks popping into view.”

Quale uses 3D almost shockingly well. From the opening titles - one of the single best sequences of any film all year - to the climactic disaster, he creates a vivid, clear and completely immersive experience that highlights the skills he learned on Avatar and lives up to the quality 3D experience promised by Cameron.”

He hurls a whole bunch of 3-dimensional objects at his audience during the opening credits: big slabs of lumber, broken glass, knives, and…wait, was that a ceiling fan? Doesn’t matter. The whole trick is a creepy, albeit fun preview of the grisly stuff that awaits the vanilla characters inhabiting this sequel.”

Seriously, the movie itself is already amazing, but the opening credits alone are just f*****g awesome! ”

Final Destination 5 is like comfort food for the horror fan. It’s loud, oftentimes obnoxious (the film’s opening credits sequence is nearly three minutes of various instruments of death being tossed through a sheet of glass towards the camera) and, most importantly - it’s a lot of fun. So take that stick out of your ass (the filmmakers need it to impale some poor teenager) and enjoy the latest in a series that realized a long time ago being shallow is only acceptable for pretty high school girls and violence-heavy horror movies.”

...3D factors in significantly throughout. While it's dialed back during dialogue scenes, it cranks way up during the death sequences. The opening and closing credits also make pronounced use of the technology, and even the biggest 3D bashers (this reporter included) will be hard-pressed to hate too much on the execution here.”

Its opening title sequence has a swagger which wouldn’t look out of place fronting a Bond movie.”

...the spectacularly weird and cool opening credits sequence, in which all of the series' best instruments of destruction fly out of the screen. They shatter plate-glass walls to the sounds of an eerie but catchy techno score, and the whole thing is presented in choppy, almost washed-out montages - as if simultaneously one-upping and improving upon the beginning of the early Friday the 13th films.”

A good title sequence sets the mood, because we can’t have Robert Osborn at the beginning of everything, a shame, but a good title sequence is the next best thing. FD5 has a gaudy, bloody, smashy opening that does its damn job, does the trick, and is the most 3-Diry thingy thing ever. It’s comically 3Diry. Beats you in the head with 3D gimmickry, in a good gaudy circus way. Take a vacation title sequence, you earned it.”

I really liked the opening titles. The flying shards of glass were so amazin in three dee for shur.”

From the opening credits where a series of bodies and blunt objects crash through the screen in slow motion, to the suspension bridge set piece and the many other brutal and brilliant deaths the 3D increases the enjoyment, providing plenty of pop out impalements and visceral thrills. Unlike The Final Destination where the 3D felt like an afterthought, here it is integrated and intelligent - used as much for shocks and jumps as it is to add depth and draw you into the doomed drama unfolding before you.”

The studio made a very wise decision to film the entire movie in 3D rather than converting it after the fact as the opening title sequence alone is amazing with tons of glass and other objects floating in front of you in a menacing fashion.”

Given Quale's pedigree, it stands to reason that the 3-D in Final Destination 5 was done really well... The effects in the opening credit sequence alone were better than the 3-D that we've seen in some full-length movies.”

FD5 shows a lot of ingenuity. The recurring theme this time will be skewering and lots of it... We get a tip-off in the opening credits, which use 3-D to thrust things at the audience. Before we have seen so much as a human face on the screen, we have been assaulted by skewers, knives, rods, stakes and shards of glass.”

Final Destination 3D are beyond smashing titles - they're a stunning use of 3D technology.  The fragility of glass metaphors life and the impersonal gravity of everyday objects inevitability doom.  Time slowed and sped, it's 4th dimensional architecture moving forwards and backwards an opera of opulent light twinkling on countless drifting transparent shards, it's a physics study in optical dimension - it's magnificent.”

The opening credit sequence of Final Destination 5 is fantastic.  There’s blood flying at you, there’s skulls, there’s broken glass… the audience has got their money’s worth for the 3D horror gimmicks straight away.  It’s great fun and looks like it would’ve been quite costly.”

Heisserer and Quale do a great job of setting up the premise without too much fluff getting in the way... Even the title credits show off the extra dimension and got the crowd eager for the action to begin.”

The opening sequence was done by Kyle Cooper who is an amazing title sequence creator and in fact was responsible for the original titles for the movie Se7en.  I told Kyle up front, 'Look, nobody’s done a really good 3D title sequence.  I want you to do what you did for the titles in Se7en for that genre, to do the equivalent of in 3D for a 3D movie'...At the same time Brian Tyler did an amazing main score with that complimented the images and those two things I think told the audience right away, ‘strap your seatbelts in, this is gonna be a fun ride.'”

With the opening title sequence, we wanted to say to everybody that we’re taking this movie seriously.  It’s not what you would expect given the last couple of movies in the franchise.  We are sort of coming back home and we hope that audiences will appreciate it.”

The audience at the premiere was energized and raring to go as the opening credits appeared. It was probably one of the most entertaining audiences I have seen a movie with in a long time.”

Final Destination 5 opens on a high: The opening credit sequence is a heady 3-D phantasmagoria, a swirly, trippy sequence of glass shards, knives, poles, iron rods, and various other implements of death flying at the audience.”

Final Destination 5 starts off with a barrage of 3-D (yes, it’s in 3-D) glass, metal rods and skulls (among other deathly signifiers) flying at the audience over an ominous opening credits sequence.”

Even from the film's ingenious and original opening credits, we have shards of glass, knives, bodies, and blood flying at us in amazing sharpness.”

There are various repetitions in the movie but the start is totally epic. The movie opens with a lengthy opening-credits sequence featuring random CGI objects (skulls, bloody nails, flaming windowpanes, an exploding microwave, a burning corpse, and much, much more) crashing through CGI glass and flying at viewers’ eyes in 3-D slow-motion.”

There are also two 'who cares?' type things that I flat out loved... One is the opening credits, set to a kick-ass theme by Brian Tyler as we we watch the key objects from every death in the series (a log, a mannequin arm, etc) fly toward us, smashing glass and the credits themselves in an insanely excessive (read: awesome) manner. They're really long, but worth every second, and I think may be the thing that makes me finally man up and buy a 3DTV - I don't want to watch this sequence in 2D, ever.”

The opening credits will really get you in the mood as everything bar the kitchen sink is thrown at you - from iron rods to fans and rotisserie forks - all crashing through plates of glass sending giant 3D shards into your lap.”

But believe me FD 5 is simply the best thing in 3-D ever!!  The opening credits alone are worth the ticket price...Honestly the opening credits are freakin' amazing and some of the best 3-D I've ever seen.  And yet it got better as finally, after many years, I saw a movie where the 3-D blew me away.”

...the film has an amazing twist that unlike other franchises actually works and is quite effective. Hell, even the 3D was amazing (especially that opening credit sequence).”

Final Destination 5 slops around in the red stuff like a fat kid in a mud puddle. Even the opening credits, which is basically just five minutes of shit comin’ at you, most of the time on fire (I swear, there was a barbed wired log on fire slamming in your face for no reason whatsoever) goes for the cheap in your face thrill that was the reason 3D films were made in the first place... I understand the appeal of films like Final Destination 5 and recommend you go see it this weekend.”

In addition to playing with the audiences' expectations, this film also makes great use of the 3D. The opening credits alone feature such a variety of items (all callbacks to the previous films) flying at the screen with broken glass that one could wonder if that's all there is to it.”

In fact, the opening credits of Final Destination 5 are more fun than every single 3D movie I've seen in the past two years combined, (and that includes Piranha 3D).”

So even though The Final Destination was in 3D, this film takes it to a whole new level right from the opening credits. You had people jumping and screaming throughout the film. I haven’t been in a theater in a long time when the audience reacted the way that they did for this.”

The opening title sequence alone is so incredibly badass that I could have sat in the theater and watched it on a loop for two hours straight. I'm sure the 2D version looks great as well, but to me Final Destination 5 is the kind of movie you need to see in 3D in order to get the full experience.”

Final Destination 5 kicks off the bloody fun with a rocking opening credits sequence, reminiscent of The Final Destination in terms of the 3D twist it puts on past franchise deaths...”

inal 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.”

Also effective are the literally smashing opening credits, with a deluge of broken glass shards and assorted lethal objects flung toward the audience.”

...the film’s 3D effects are some of the most gripping and shocking ever to be seen. The opening credit sequence is over shattered glass, as the instruments that caused the death of previous Final Destination characters fly through the screen: hooks, wires, knives, planes and fans. The ending features splattered human remains attacking the screen. Forget Final Destination 4, My Bloody Valentine and Saw: The Final Chapter. The visuals in Final Destination 5 outdo them all.”

To begin with, the makers of Final Destination 5 want to impress upon you the advantages of seeing the film in 3D. The opening titles feature a series of large objects hurled through plate glass directly at the screen - lumber, fire extinguishers, iron poles - as if to tell us 'last chance for 3D glasses!' The sequence runs on to an absurd length, dispelling illusions that this film will be about anything besides flying objects and the nasty things they can do to people. Just as we begin to enjoy the credits as free-standing abstract art, the actual movie begins.”

What the movie will do is make you squirm in your seat, right from the opening credits thanks to fantastic special effects. 3D does little justice to most movies these days; you pay more to see a less colourful and darker version of the regular 2D version. But Final Destination 5 is pure 3D gold and well worth the extra money where 3D technology goes.”

If by some chance you have yet to be introduced to the Final Destination franchise, this is the go-to opening for all the installments. Funny thing this time around, is that the opening credits actually set the tone for something monumental to happen.”

In addition to playing with the audiences' expectations, this film also makes great use of the 3D. The opening credits alone feature such a variety of items (all callbacks to the previous films) flying at the screen with broken glass that one could wonder if that's all there is to it.”

Director Stephen Quayle and Writer Eric Heisserer have a lot of fun with the 3D technology (great opening credits) and dreaming up the goriest deaths imaginable.”

And please see this in 3D as it is used to great effect. They spend the whole opening credits throwing whatever they could find lying around the house through the screen just to show you how serious they are about using it.”

Final Destination 5 is the best 3D movie I've seen, I mean even the opening credits are in 3D - REAL 3D. It's epic!”

It's honestly no insult to say that the best thing about FD5 is its credits - they may be the most gloriously overboard examples of such ever committed to film. Opening titles throw multiple hazardous objects at your face in a shower of 3-D broken glass, while the end credits showcase a montage of the franchise's greatest deaths enhanced with additional 3-D gore and scored to AC/DC.”

The addition of 3D and the use of 3D cameras truly pushes this film up to 11. The opening credits even set you up for what’s in store where different forms of death; knives/fire/water LITERALLY fly at you and break thru the 'glass' of the screen.”