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Fresh:24
Rotten:60
Average Rating:4.3/10
Consensus: With little of the ingenuity of previous installments, The Final Destination is predictable, disposable horror fare.
Rated: R [See Full Rating]
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Theatrical Release:Aug 28, 2009 Wide
Box Office: $66,436,248
Synopsis: On what should have been a fun-filled day at the races, Nick O’Bannon has a horrific premonition in which a bizarre sequence of events causes multiple race cars to crash, sending flaming debris... [More]
Starring: Shantel VanSanten, Bobby Campo, Haley Webb, Nick Zano
Director: David R. Ellis
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The newest incarnation of Final Destination is really just 80 minutes of watching people die in variously ridiculous and implausible ways. It seems as if the filmmakers had more interest in constructing Rube Goldbergesque death traps than character
The biggest sin of The Final Destination is its general lack of imagination.
The title... suggests some kind of reboot, or a new twist on the old idea. Sadly, it's not. It's pretty much just Final Destination 4 with nothing more to say on the subject.
You never saw so much ducking and weaving, or heard such gasps of happy horror, outside a funfair.
James Cameron and the folks at Pixar may disagree, but this is what 3D was made for: To make audiences scream and duck as Death hurls lethal objects from the screen.
Witty, ingenious, horrible entertainment.
If you're interested in looking at creative carnage, The Final Destination has just want you want. And in 3D, too.
Why watch people die discreetly with a small amount of CGI blood when you can cue up the DVD of the second film and watch that kid get squashed like an overripe grape?
a series of missed opportunities and imitative filmmaking. If you want to see it, it's barely worth springing the extra cash for the 3D ticket
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.
Top CriticWith a plot that's virtually identical to parts 1, 2 and 3, this fourth movie has one new gimmick that makes it worth a look: it's in 3D. And the filmmakers have a lot of fun with it, gleefully revving up the grisly carnage.
The fourth installment in the series is certainly one instance of technology elevating (slightly) what could otherwise have passed for straight-to-DVD fare.
I thought they might call this 'Final Final Destination' to wrap up the franchise.
Does anyone in Hollywood know what "final" means? Enough already!
FD4 fully embraces its gimmicky format, sending all those great bodily fluids spilling towards your face.
The novelty factor stops and starts at the 3-D specs: this is a horror movie on tracks, not going anyplace new. Still, there’s some inventive grue-splashing as always.
Death, Be Not Boring would have been a better title for this fourth installment in the teen splatter franchise.
Top CriticDeath's design finally catches up with itself and brutally kills a once-clever but now sadly predictable horror premise.
A quick, cheap cash-in.
The latest entry skimps on the series' strongest point, setting up the most obvious calamities.
October 14, 2009:
The Mysterious Success of The Final Destination 
How has "The Final Destination" ended up on the verge of breaking $100 million in worldwide grosses? To hear Toby Emmerich tell it, it's all about the 3-D, baby. More...
September 07, 2009:
Box Office Guru Wrapup: Final Destination Stays On Top
While the summer movie season started with a bang with the sharp claws of a mutant super hero, it ended quietly over the four-day Labor Day holiday session with the 3D horror... More...
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