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Movie Overview
Cast
• Shantel VanSanten
• Bobby Campo
• Haley Webb
Director
• David R. Ellis
MPAA Rating
R - for strong violent/gruesome accidents, language and a scene of sexuality.
Theatrical Release
Aug 28, 2009 (Wide)
Video/DVD Releases
Jan 05, 2010 (DVD)
The Final Destination (2009)

REVIEWS
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INTERVIEWS
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OFCS Rating: 23% Rotten
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3.5/5
"As a thriller, it's damn effective. It had me sitting anxiously on the edge of my seat, knuckles whitened, not because of a gory death, but because of the suspenseful build up to one."  Cut Print Review  Anders Wotzke

"Provides food for thought about fate and our own mortality as well as exciting scenes for viewers who enjoy seeing blood and guts on screen."  ReelTalk Movie Reviews  Betty Jo Tucker

2/5
"Percentage-wise, it's about 75% blood and 25% boring exposition and lax characterization"  Filmcritic.com  Bill Gibron

D
"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."  BrianOrndorf.com  Brian Orndorf

3/4
"...a fitting follow-up to its trio of like-minded forebears."  Reel Film Reviews  David Nusair

D
"One severed head is worth a thousand words."  Ozus' World Movie Reviews  Dennis Schwartz

2.5/4
"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."  DustinPutman.com  Dustin Putman

D
"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."  Cinematical  Eric D. Snider

2/4
"You figure the alleged final destination would have more to offer audiences..."  Cinema Crazed  Felix Vasquez Jr.

D
"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."  One Guy's Opinion  Frank Swietek

2/4
"would be a genuinely terrible movie (even as far as horror sequels go) except for its mordant sense of humor"  Q Network Film Desk  James Kendrick

"What does it say about us when we go to cinemas to see people die in gruesome, yet inventive ways?"  Sci-Fi Movie Page  James O'Ehley

2/5
"Horror franchise's leap to 3D is gorier than ever."  Common Sense Media  James Rocchi

"Parental Content Review"  Screen It!  Jim Judy

2/5
"click to read the full review"  Movies for the Masses  Joseph Proimakis

2.5/4.0
"The laugh-out-loud funniest comedy of the year (if you happen to be the Grim Reaper)."  MovieCrypt.com  Kevin A. Ranson

1.5/5
"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"  7M Pictures  Kevin Carr

1.5/4
"A quick, cheap cash-in."  Mark Reviews Movies  Mark Dujsik

"It's death porn, pure and simple..."  Flick Filosopher  MaryAnn Johanson

1/5
" "The Final Destination" takes a franchise that was never very good to begin with and somehow fails to come within reaching distance of the abysmally lowered artistic bar set by its predecessors."  eFilmCritic.com  Peter Sobczynski

3/5
"With a plot that's virtually identical to parts 1, 2 and 3, this fourth movie has one new gimmick that makes it worth a look: it's in 3D. And the filmmakers have a lot of fun with it, gleefully revving up the grisly carnage."  Shadows on the Wall  Rich Cline

1/5
"This series has clearly run out of ideas. The deaths are tired."  eFilmCritic.com  Rob Gonsalves

1.5/5
"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."  FEARnet  Scott Weinberg

3/10
"The novelty for this supernatural screamfest is the 3-D, making the concept of impalement, for example, seem to thrust directly into the audience."  SSG Syndicate  Susan Granger

4/10
"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?"  Antagony & Ecstasy  Tim Brayton

1.5/5
"'They saved the best for last' becomes 'death saved the best for 3D'. Sadly, neither of these things is true: this is the worst entry in the series."  DVDTalk.com  Tyler Foster
OFCS Rating: 23% Rotten
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