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08/28/09
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
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.
08/28/09
The latest entry skimps on the series' strongest point, setting up the most obvious calamities.
08/28/09
The fourth installment in the series is certainly one instance of technology elevating (slightly) what could otherwise have passed for straight-to-DVD fare.
08/28/09
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
08/28/09
Death's design finally catches up with itself and brutally kills a once-clever but now sadly predictable horror premise.
08/28/09
Easily one of the lamest horror flicks of the year, and it's an absolute slap in the chops to the fans who made the franchise a hit in the first place.
08/28/09
It's a shame that the filmmakers didn't use a little bit of creativity and inventiveness to come up with characters that we might actually want to see live, even if we would still be entertained when they didn't.
08/28/09
The biggest sin of The Final Destination is its general lack of imagination.
08/28/09
It's not frightening in the least, with only a few amusing moments, a pedal-and-forehead-to-the-metal race track crash opener, and then you just keep time by counting off who survives the initial slaughter, who awaits death when "their turn" comes.
08/28/09
Warner Bros. is demanding a surcharge of viewers for the privilege of seeing the movie in 3D. Actually the company should be paying them for sitting through it at all.
08/28/09
Wafer-thin, The Final Destination is definitely the weakest entry to date - but worth a 3d peep anyway if you enjoy rides like these.
08/28/09
It's death porn, pure and simple...
08/28/09
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
The destination of the title is never in any doubt, but the getting-there is giddily devious and playful. For the fourth outing in a thought-tired series, The Final Destination has some surprising sparks of life to it yet.
08/28/09
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
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
Aside from the addition of 3-D, the newest Final Destination flick has little to offer audiences other than more gleefully depraved scenes of carnage.
08/28/09
FD4 fully embraces its gimmicky format, sending all those great bodily fluids spilling towards your face.
08/28/09
This isn't a franchise, it's an arcade game.
08/28/09
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