The Final Destination (2009)

All Critics (96) | Top Critics (13) | Fresh (28) | Rotten (68) | 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 | Comments (2)

Jeannette Catsoulis

New York Times

Top 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

Gary Goldstein

Los Angeles Times

Top 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

Elizabeth Weitzman

New York Daily News

Top Critic

Even a mediocre FD is better than more Jigsaw.

September 1, 2009 Full Review | Comments (3)

Joshua Rothkopf

Time Out New York

Top Critic

Death comes in 3D but everything else is tedious.

September 1, 2009 | Comment (1)

Kirk Honeycutt

Hollywood Reporter

Top 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 | Comments (3)

Owen Gleiberman

Entertainment Weekly

Top Critic

The Final Destination is a catastrophe in and of itself.

February 15, 2013 Full Review

Steve Newton

Georgia Straight

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 | Comment (1)

Simon Miraudo

Quickflix

screams 'made for TV'

July 31, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)

John A. Nesbit

Old School Reviews

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

Peter Canavese

Groucho Reviews

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

John J. Puccio

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

Mike McGranaghan

Aisle Seat

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

January 1, 2010 Full Review

John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

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

December 30, 2009 Full Review

Christian Toto

What Would Toto Watch?

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

November 4, 2009 Full Review

Mark Palermo

Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

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

Sandra Hall

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

Jake Wilson

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

Simon Weaving

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

Leigh Paatsch

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

Giles Hardie

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

Anthony O'Connor

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

Anders Wotzke

Moviedex

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

October 7, 2009 | Comments (4)

James O'Ehley

Sci-Fi Movie Page

• 1. Nick O'Bannon: Would it kill you to be a little sensitive?
  – Submitted by Dan E (32 days ago)
• 1. Hunt: Are you shitting me?! That's the whole reason I came for these stupid redneck things. No offense.
  – Submitted by Matthew D (7 months ago)
• 1. Nick O'Bannon: What if we didn't change anything?
  2. Janet: What are you talking about?
  3. Nick O'Bannon: What if it's us being here, right now, was the plan from the beginning?
  – Submitted by Matthew D (7 months ago)
• 1. MILF/Samantha: I've got my eye on you two.
  – Submitted by Matthew D (7 months ago)
• 1. Theater Manager: Please everyone remain calm! Everything is going to be okay.
  – Submitted by Jordan E (11 months ago)
• 1. Nick O'Bannon: Would it kill you to be sensitive?
  – Submitted by Jaime A (11 months ago)

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