Final Destination 5 is a 2011 3D horror film written by Eric Heisserer and directed by Steven Quale. It is the fifth installment to the Final Destination film franchise and stars Nicholas D'Agosto, Emma Bell, Miles Fisher, Arlen Escarpeta, David Koechner, and Tony Todd. Todd is the only returning cast member of the series. The world premiere was August 4 2011 at the Fantasia Festival in Montreal, Canada. it was released in Real D 3D and digital IMAX 3D.
The film opens up with co-workers gathering together for a company retreat. Sam Lawton has prepared the breakfast before the bus ride. His best friend, Peter, is awaiting everyone else's arrival for the trip. Molly Harper, Sam's girlfriend arrives and she then breaks up with him, due to his dreams of going to Paris to be an apprentice for his mentor. Meanwhile Peter's girlfriend, Candice, an intern for the company and a gymnast comes along with rival Olivia Castle. Molly is hit on by Isaac Palmer, a co-worker and womanizer. Sam then goes to the construction wing of the building to find his other friend, Nathan Gregory, a supervisor who has a hard time dealing with construction worker, Roy.
Nathan and Sam regroup and head on the bus to their destination. As the bus heads up on the bridge, Sam notices the roads construction is rather suspicious, and he begins to have weird feelings while on the bus.
The bus is stopped by a traffic operator, and then the bridge starts to crack. Sam watches as each of the co-workers dies, excluding Molly, who reaches safety. Sam then comes to, realizing that the incident has yet to occur. He and Molly leave the bus, and Peter, Candice, Olivia, Nathan, Isaac, and Dennis follow. The bridge collapses and Sam rushes all of his friends to safety.
During the company funeral, William Bludworth, a local coroner is present and he warns the group that Death is after them. They all ignore his warnings and move on with their lives. Sam and Molly reconcile later that night.
The next day, Candice is with Peter at her gymnastics practice. While she does work on the balance beam, a nail from a malfunctioning fan falls on the beam, nail side up. Candice then goes to do some vault work, and while she is flipping, another girl on the beam does a routine and she falls on the nail, causing her to knock over a pit full of powder. The powder is blown into the area and Candice loses her sight, and she flips, accidentally letting go, causing her death.
The next day, Isaac goes through the dead co-workers desks and comes across a Chinese massage parlor. He goes there and flirts with many of the women, but is forced into acupuncture by a woman disgusted with his sexist attitude. After the procedure, as Isaac rolls over on his bed, the leg of it caves in sending him on the ground, pushing the needles into his body. He staggeringly gets up, but a bottle of alcohol causes a fire from a candle falling. Isaac avoids the fire, but as he leans against the wall, a shelved Buddha, falls and crushes his head.
Bludworth, who has been present for all of the deaths so far, tells the remaining survivors that there is another way to avoid Death. They would have to kill someone to gain their remaining days on Earth. Meanwhile Agent Jim Block is covering the case of Sam and his friends, but he finds all of the deaths hard to believe.
Olivia goes to get eye surgery the same day, and the doctor straps her head into place. Olivia, fearful, holds a teddy bear, and as the doctor put in tools to keep her eyes open, she rips off an eye from the bear. The doctor leaves the room for a moment, but the machine begins to malfunction, overheating, and the button to begin surgery is dropped as she reaches for it in panic. The laser severely burns her eye and hand, but she manages to escape. As Sam, Molly and the doctor run in to her she trips on the teddy bears eye, and falls through the window onto a parked car, and falls off as her eye rolls away to be run over by a car.
Later Nathan is working in construction and talking to Roy. Suddenly Nathan sees a beam moving closer to him with a hook under it. He urges Roy to move, but accidentally pushes him backwards as the hook falls, which results in Roy being impaled by the hook, through the head. As the group comes together, Peter learns that Nathan accidentally killed Roy, taking his days, skipping him in Death's design.
Meanwhile as Dennis grills them all, a wrench that Roy placed on a machine, is twisted into Dennis's face. Later that night, Sam's mentor allows him to become an apprentice in Paris, along with letting Sam have the restaurant for the night to spend it with Molly. Peter crashes the dinner, and he tells of how he tried to push a woman in front of a truck to steal her life. He admits that he couldn't go through with it, deciding that while he can't take the life of someone who doesn't deserve to die, he can take the life of someone who deserves to live, referencing an earlier conversation about Molly. Peter then attempts to kill Molly, with Sam stopping him.
Molly then takes refuge in the kitchen and Sam fights off Peter before Agent Block is shot by Peter, taking his years. The struggle leads to a gun being placed on the burning stove, but as Peter is about to kill Molly, Sam stabs him in the back with a large skewer. Sam then realizes, that he stole Agent Block's life from Peter.
Two weeks later, Sam and Molly are boarding a plane to Paris. As they are boarding, a group of high schoolers get into a fight. One of them suddenly panics and is taken off the plane. Sam then reads his ticket to be "Flight 180". During take off, Sam overhears that the student claimed to have a vision that the plane was going to explode. The prediction then comes true as the jet engine bursts into flames. Molly is sucked out the side, and cut in half by the wing, as the rest of plane catches fire, burning Sam to death. As the plane goes down in flames, a flame engulfed engine falls several feet below.
Meanwhile, Nathan is at a local bar, mourning Roy's death. There he meets an factory employee who reveals that Roy was meant to die days after his actual death involving the hook, due to an illness he was unaware of. Nathan worries, as the guy walks away claiming, "Life is a bitch" before the flaming engine from Flight 180 crashes through the bar and crushes Nathan to death, as his remains fly towards the screen.
