The fifth and allegedly final entry in this increasingly dull and nonsensical franchise moves the story forwards nine years to the grandmother's funeral and a now-late-teen Dalton off to college and Patrick Wilson (who also directs the film) divorced and his relationship with his son broken. After an excruciatingly blandly-scripted first half-hour, things start to liven up with a spooky and claustrophobic MRI-scanner sequence but then reverts back to silly set pieces that fail to scare and a relentlessly laboured use of the door metaphor as the secrets of the family's past are slowly uncovered and the sealed-by-hypnosis trauma of the trips to The Further returns. Sinclair Daniel livens up proceedings as Dalton's sparky room-mate Chris, but with the family-unit-in-jeopardy element reduced and only a couple of very brief appearances by the redoubtable Lin Shaye, this thin and tedious finale to the series has little of interest to offer.
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