The Final Destination
Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: August 28, 2009 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
30
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 14 Critic Reviews
Positive:
0
Mixed:
6
Negative:
8
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30
VarietyJordan 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
25
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike 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
25
The A.V. ClubTasha Robinson
The whole movie is just one increasingly dull roll downhill. The same could be said for this once-fresh franchise. Read full review
50
L.A. WeeklyScott 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
60
Time OutJoshua 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
30
The Hollywood ReporterKirk 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
40
EmpireNick 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
58
Entertainment WeeklyOwen 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
50
Los Angeles TimesGary 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
30
The New York TimesJeannette Catsoulis
There used to be entertainment in the dodging and wit in the scripts; now there’s 3-D. Read full review
12
Boston GlobeWesley 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
30
Chicago ReaderCliff 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
50
New York Daily NewsElizabeth 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
11
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
As mesmerizing as watching bread toast. Death, be not proud, indeed. Read full review
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