The film showers you with gore while dumping a motor engine in your lap and poking you in the eye with a burnt stick.
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10/15/09
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.
Genre: Horror/Suspense
US 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
Reviews for The Final Destination
Top CriticThe 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.
10/15/09
Top CriticThe 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.
10/14/09
Top CriticA tired imitation of the first film in the series, the 3-D offers little to improve this vacuous and unnecessary sequel.
10/13/09
Top CriticSelling bland fatalism to kids, it's the work of crooks.
11/04/09
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.
10/14/09
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.
10/13/09
Top CriticWhat does it say about us when we go to cinemas to see people die in gruesome, yet inventive ways?
10/07/09
...a fitting follow-up to its trio of like-minded forebears.
10/05/09
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09/11/09
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
would be a genuinely terrible movie (even as far as horror sequels go) except for its mordant sense of humor
09/07/09
I thought they might call this 'Final Final Destination' to wrap up the franchise.
09/05/09
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?
09/04/09
If you're interested in looking at creative carnage, The Final Destination has just want you want. And in 3D, too.
09/04/09
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.
09/04/09
Despite the added 3-D imagery, elaborate sequences that lead to doomed characters' deaths remain the most interesting thing about this latest Final Destination.
09/04/09
On its fourth go-round, the can-we-cheat-death exercise has become flatter than its characters, and the racist redneck, arrogant jock, buxom but shallow soccer mom, and perky, easy-on-the-eyes girlfriends make for a pretty flat cast.
09/03/09
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
The film is worth every penny of your money to see in theaters but please be aware that the acting and script are both horrendous.
09/02/09
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