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Final Destination, The
EMAILPRINTNew Line Cinema (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 14 critic reviews
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Based on 91 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Horror | Suspense/Thriller
Written by: Eric Bress
Directed by: David R. Ellis
Release Date:
Theatrical: August 28, 2009
Running Time: minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R for strong violent/gruesome accidents, language and a scene of sexuality
Starring Bobby Campo, Shantel VanSanten, Krista Allen, Mykelti Williamson, Haley Webb, Nick Zano, Andrew Fiscella, and Richard T. Jones
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 into the stands, brutally killing his friends and causing the upper deck of the stands to collapse on him. When he comes out of this grisly nightmare, Nick panics, persuading his girlfriend, Lori, and their friends, Janet and Hunt, to leave...escaping seconds before Nick's frightening vision becomes a terrible reality. Thinking they've cheated death, the group has a new lease on life, but unfortunately for Nick and Lori, it is only the beginning. As his premonitions continue and the crash survivors begin to die one-by-one--in increasingly gruesome ways--Nick must figure out how to cheat death once and for all before he, too, reaches his final destination. (Warner Bros.)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Time Out New York Joshua Rothkopf
Too many digital effects ruin the spell of a tactile world of evil objects scheming your demise. But even a mediocre FD is better than more Jigsaw.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
It's no exaggeration to say that the actors have less personality than the pipes, nail guns, grinding gears, decaying beams, and slowly spreading oil spills that are fused, with a kind of empty-dread technical precision, into Rube Goldberg torture devices.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Gary Goldstein
Though this latest entry has an OK sense of humor, moves swiftly enough and sports an effective opening sequence of racetrack destruction that puts its Fusion 3-D technology to good use, it mostly comes off as a particularly flimsy excuse to string together a bunch of gory killings.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Scott Foundas
Ellis and screenwriter Eric Bress even go all meta on us with an "Inglourious Basterds"–esque finale set inside a 3D cinema, though their set pieces never quite muster the giddy brio of "Final Destination 1" and "3" auteur James Wong at his best.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
If you like your gore hardcore, you'll want to head straight for "Halloween II." But if you're happy to ease around a slightly smaller track, look no further.
Read Full Review >Empire Nick de Semlyen
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.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Cliff Doerksen
The Rube Goldberg variations are repetitive and devoid of the visual snap that helped distinguish James Wong’s "Final Destination" (2000).
Read Full Review >The New York Times Jeannette Catsoulis
There used to be entertainment in the dodging and wit in the scripts; now there’s 3-D.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
The new gimmick here is that all the flying body parts and absurd impalements come in 3D. And that's about as inspired as anything gets in this edition. Story and character get chucked to the sidelines as the arena has room for only death scenes.
Read Full Review >Variety Jordan Mintzer
With an array of gory mayhem only marginally enhanced by 3-D and a plot as developed as a text message, The Final Destination may finally sound the death knell for New Line's near-immortal horror franchise.
Read Full Review >New Orleans Times-Picayune Mike Scott
The characters aren't fully formed enough to care about, the humor is baseball-bat dull, and the story - such as it is - is never treated as anything more than a half-hearted means to get the audiences from one spectacular snuffing to the next.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Tasha Robinson
The whole movie is just one increasingly dull roll downhill. The same could be said for this once-fresh franchise.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Wesley Morris
The writers don’t write, the director doesn’t really direct, and the actors don’t exactly act. They wait for the movie’s contraptions to impale them.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
As mesmerizing as watching bread toast. Death, be not proud, indeed.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 4.9 (out of 10) based on 91 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
burguer k gave it a3:
By far the worst movie of the final destination saga. It began well but after i didn't even figured out why it was on 3d...stupid and illogical deaths, bad acting, bad ending.
christian s gave it a5:
I think that this movie wasn't that bad. It may not be Final Destination 2 it's not that bad either. but this movie does have a poor script and Direct to DVD quality actors.
Casey M gave it a0:
One of the worst movies I've seen in years. Not only are all the deaths of the characters highly illogical, they're not even made believably. And don't even get me started about the ending.
Harry B. gave it a0:
Here's the twist at the end: every main character dies.
M. E. gave it a1:
So abysmal I felt compelled to create an account to just warn any poor fool who wanders into this garbage by accident. Don't bother with the 3D as it was seemingly added as an afterthought and was almost entirely unnoticeable. Though my forehead was raw from slapping it every time a ceiling fan (or entire structure for that matter) was just one loose screw from starting an impossibly ridiculous Rube Goldberg device of death, the over the top gory deaths were mildly humorous in execution (pun intended). It goes from bad to worse in the closing scene when the writers apparently ran out of time or had to make another beer run, and decided to wrap this up in the most uninspired way possible. If you ever do see this movie, I'd recommend putting it on in the background while shooting the breeze with a few buddies and muting the bored sounding frat boys and girls to a indistinguishable buzz. Oh and definitely don't pay eight bucks for it.
James B. gave it a10:
This is the worst movie I've seen this year. Yes, I gave it a 10. Why is that? Because it's also the most fun I've had watching a movie this year. This is not art. It is a spectacle. The reviewer who said that it seemed less like a movie and more like Rube Goldberg death scenarios was right. And I couldn't ask for more. Go with a group of friends and laugh from beginning to end. You will not regret it.
Jordan L gave it a0:
This movie totally sucked I was expecting more creative ways of death. Was not worth my ten bucks!
