Rotten Tomatoes Logo Do you want to see ‘The Final Destination’?

The Final Destination (2009)

tomatometer

30

Average Rating: 4.3/10
Reviews Counted: 94
Fresh: 28 | Rotten: 66

With little of the ingenuity of previous installments, The Final Destination is predictable, disposable horror fare.

0

Average Rating: 2.9/10
Critic Reviews: 9
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 9

With little of the ingenuity of previous installments, The Final Destination is predictable, disposable horror fare.

audience

52

liked it
Average Rating: 3.2/5
User Ratings: 538,783

My Rating

Movie Info

The Final Destination series gets a kick-start with this fourth outing, headed up by the production team behind the second film -- director David R. Ellis and writer Eric Bress. The New Line franchise will be presented for the first time in 3-D with this installment focusing on a teenager that dodges a trip to the grave at a racetrack, only to find that death has a way of equaling the playing field after the fact. Shantel VanSanten, Bobby Campo, and Hayley Webb star in the sequel. ~ Jeremy

R, 1 hr. 22 min.

Action & Adventure, Horror

Eric Bress

Jan 5, 2010

$66.4M

Warner Bros. Pictures

Cast

All Critics (94) | Top Critics (9) | Fresh (28) | Rotten (67) | DVD (5)

Since not even 3-D can put your eyes out, our only hope is that this time, the title is a promise and not a tease.

September 1, 2009 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comments (2)
New York Times
Top Critic IconTop Critic

[A] silly and predictable fourth installment in the lucrative thriller series about pretty young people attempting to cheat death.

September 1, 2009 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | Comment
Los Angeles Times
Top Critic IconTop Critic

With the exception of Williamson, the actors are as disposable as their characters, and there is no story to speak of.

September 1, 2009 Full Review Source: New York Daily News | Comment
New York Daily News
Top Critic IconTop Critic

Death comes in 3D but everything else is tedious.

September 1, 2009 Comment (1)
Hollywood Reporter
Top Critic IconTop Critic

Once again, a group of pretty young things who have escaped the opening disaster proceed to die, one by one, as fate catches up with them.

September 1, 2009 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | Comments (2)
Entertainment Weekly
Top Critic IconTop Critic

Death, Be Not Boring would have been a better title for this fourth installment in the teen splatter franchise.

September 1, 2009 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
Chicago Reader
Top Critic IconTop Critic

Imagine a film that features an endless cavalcade of people being eviscerated in the bloodiest and bone-snappiest of ways, yet which somehow manages to inspire the audience to envy the victims.

October 27, 2010 Full Review Source: Quickflix | Comment (1)

screams 'made for TV'

July 31, 2010 Full Review Source: Old School Reviews | Comment (1)

There's absolutely no reason for The Final Destination to exist other than the only one Hollywood studios really care about: a cynical cash grab. [Blu-ray]

February 15, 2010 Full Review Source: Groucho Reviews | Comment

This one offers up as good special effects as the others, but when they serve so gross a purpose, who cares? (3-D Blu-ray Edition)

January 6, 2010 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

Like too many horror franchises, a premise that was once scary has evolved into something campy and self-aware.

January 5, 2010 Full Review Source: Aisle Seat | Comment
Aisle Seat

...if you've seen one such movie, you've seen them all, and one is too much.

January 1, 2010 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

If The Final Destination is what horror fans want these days, be very, very afraid.

December 30, 2009 Full Review Source: What Would Toto Watch? | Comment
What Would Toto Watch?

Selling bland fatalism to kids, it's the work of crooks.

November 4, 2009 Full Review | Comment

The film showers you with gore while dumping a motor engine in your lap and poking you in the eye with a burnt stick.

October 15, 2009 Full Review Source: Sydney Morning Herald | Comment
Sydney Morning Herald

The characters are crash-test dummies, with dialogue to match. Yet Eric Bress' script is mockingly self-aware, framing the film as the ultimate example of violence as entertainment.

October 15, 2009 Full Review Source: The Age (Australia) | Comment
The Age (Australia)

The final (really?) film in this lifeless franchise about the inevitability of death, which typically comes in the form of some grisly three-dimensional accident.

October 14, 2009 Full Review Source: Screenwize | Comment
Screenwize

The new film has been expertly shot in 3-D, and the extra dimension does punch-up the impact of the franchise's famously intricate set- piece snuffings.

October 14, 2009 Full Review Source: Herald Sun (Australia) | Comment
Herald Sun (Australia)

Where some of the previous installments have been quite clever, the focus here is entirely on angling the camera so that something else can rush at us.

October 13, 2009 Full Review Source: Unknown2 | Comment
Unknown2

A tired imitation of the first film in the series, the 3-D offers little to improve this vacuous and unnecessary sequel.

October 13, 2009 Full Review Source: FILMINK (Australia) | Comment
FILMINK (Australia)

As a thriller, it's damn effective. It had me sitting anxiously on the edge of my seat, knuckles whitened, not because of a gory death, but because of the suspenseful build up to one.

October 12, 2009 Full Review Source: Cut Print Review | Comment
Cut Print Review

What does it say about us when we go to cinemas to see people die in gruesome, yet inventive ways?

October 7, 2009 Comments (3)

...a fitting follow-up to its trio of like-minded forebears.

October 5, 2009 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | Comment
Reel Film Reviews

click to read the full review

September 11, 2009 Full Review Source: Movies for the Masses | Comment
Movies for the Masses
More Critic Reviews

Audience Reviews for The Final Destination

I have watched all the final destinations except the first one! Damn.But I'd say the second one is better than this. First time I found a movie like this (sequel looks better than the beginning one).

May 16, 2010
3niR
Dead Angel

Super Reviewer

Some of the worst CGI I have ever seen. Considering this film was made in 2009, there should be no excuse! There is nothing new here as far as the script goes, just the same ol same (everyone dies in a certain order). ZZZZZZ goodnight.

December 6, 2011
Eric Alvarez

Super Reviewer

The Final Destination Quotes

No quotes approved yet for The Final Destination. Logged in users can submit quotes.

Latest News for The Final Destination

June 30, 2010:
New Title for Fifth Final Destination
New Line has already taken you to your "Final Destination" four times, so what's next? For the next...

June 9, 2010:
New Line Hires a Director for Final Destination 5
Steven Quale, who recently worked as a second unit director on James Cameron's "Avatar," has been...

What's Hot On RT

RT on DVD & Blu-Ray
RT on DVD & Blu-Ray

Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1

<em>Amazing Spider-Man</em>
Amazing Spider-Man

See the all-new action-packed trailer!

The Avengers!
The Avengers!

Five new Marvelous pictures

Total Recall
Total Recall

Unconventional Superheroes

Top Movie Quizzes

LEGO Mania: 2011 Best Picture Nominees
by natalie - 18,514 taken
created 12 months ago
How Much Do You Know About Leonardo DiCaprio?
by natalie - 44,307 taken
created 15 months ago
Pixar Movies!
by jdikwlzviv - 27,077 taken
created 15 months ago
The Wizards of Harry Potter
by jdikwlzviv - 27,589 taken
created 15 months ago

Foreign Titles

  • Final Destination 4 (DE)
  • The Final Destination 3D (UK)
Help | About | Jobs | Newsletter | Critics Submission | API | Licensing | Blog | Developers | Mobile