Some scares, some humour and some fun to be had from the 3D. A multiplex movie that does what it says on the tin.
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08/29/09
The Final Destination (2009)
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Reviews Counted:84
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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Reviews for The Final Destination
Business as usual courtesy of ever-more outlandish ways for people to die.
08/29/09
The latest entry skimps on the series' strongest point, setting up the most obvious calamities.
08/28/09
It amounts to a kind of formulaic silliness, where horrific things only really happen to unreal people.
08/29/09
A tired imitation of the first film in the series, the 3-D offers little to improve this vacuous and unnecessary sequel.
10/13/09
The film-makers' inventiveness with each death is at once camp and heartless; every scene is so heavily loaded with the potential for violent calamity that after a while one's cynical laugh turns to a weary "whatever..."
08/29/09
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
08/28/09
This movie is exactly what gives horror films a bad name and why studios don't screen them for critics. I don't even care if you're a fan of this series, DON'T SEE THIS MOVIE!!! WASTE OF MONEY AND TIME!
08/29/09
Percentage-wise, it's about 75% blood and 25% boring exposition and lax characterization
08/27/09
Reheats the package of fate and premonition with snoozy panache. Thought the title all but demands finality to the franchise, something tells me the "Final" at play here is more wicked irony than a welcome promise.
09/02/09
Little did I know that the 3D would merely be another way to disguise the tremendous lack of effort that went into things like writing, acting, or directing.
08/28/09
It's exactly like Final Destination 1, 2 and 3, but in 3D. Unfortunately, three-dimensional images do little more than show up the one-dimensional characters.
08/29/09
Death, Be Not Boring would have been a better title for this fourth installment in the teen splatter franchise.
09/01/09
One severed head is worth a thousand words.
09/02/09
Death's design finally catches up with itself and brutally kills a once-clever but now sadly predictable horror premise.
08/28/09
With the exception of Williamson, the actors are as disposable as their characters, and there is no story to speak of.
09/01/09
The problems of this fourth (hopefully last) episode are not the overly familiar premise or stock characters but that use of 3-D adds little fun and the yarn doesn't take full advantage of the dangers inherent in its unique locale, car racing disaster.
08/28/09
You might just as well stay home and watch one of the other three, where at least there will be some devilish wit and ironic humor in evidence.
09/10/09
The biggest sin of The Final Destination is its general lack of imagination.
08/28/09
You figure the alleged final destination would have more to offer audiences...
09/02/09
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