The 3-D effect been applied. It adds a bit of extra fun to what is otherwise a routine repeat of the formula.
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09/01/09
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: 15 [See Full Rating]
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Theatrical Release:28-08-2009
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
The fourth film in this occult-horror franchise differs from its predecessors in being shot in superb 3D, which is employed to gory effect.
09/01/09
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.
08/29/09
Top CriticThe film’s 15 certificate is surprisingly generous. But this is harmless, inventive fun, a rollercoaster ride on the 3D bandwagon, before the wheels fall off.
08/29/09
Top CriticSome scares, some humour and some fun to be had from the 3D. A multiplex movie that does what it says on the tin.
08/29/09
Top CriticThat this fourth instalment brings no fresh ideas to the mix is not a problem; the added dimension is more than enough to reinvigorate interest in this enduringly and deservedly popular series.
08/29/09
Top CriticWitty, ingenious, horrible entertainment.
08/29/09
Top CriticThis series used to be a guilty pleasure, but I think Death may have delighted us long enough.
08/29/09
Top CriticAlthough it lacks ambition and is comically daft, as pure popcorn cinema goes this splatter-fest is delivers exactly what it should: tension, mayhem and an unhealthy body count.
08/29/09
The introduction of 3-D freshens this up somewhat, but the film suffers from the same problems as its predecessors - fate dictates the outcome, and knowing who's going to die cuts out much of the tension.
08/29/09
You know exactly what to expect: a blood-and-guts joyride with Death In Excess. And the wonderfully in-yer-face 3D will knock your block off.
08/29/09
It's exactly like Final Destination 1, 2 and 3, but in 3D. Unfortunately, three-dimensional images do little more than show up the one-dimensional characters.
08/29/09
The one-dimensional acting and dialogue has been taken to even more laughable levels. But that matters little as the invisible grim reaper is the star of the film.
08/29/09
Top CriticYou never saw so much ducking and weaving, or heard such gasps of happy horror, outside a funfair.
08/29/09
The film-makers' inventiveness with each death is at once camp and heartless; every scene is so heavily loaded with the potential for violent calamity that after a while one's cynical laugh turns to a weary "whatever..."
08/29/09
Business as usual courtesy of ever-more outlandish ways for people to die.
08/29/09
It amounts to a kind of formulaic silliness, where horrific things only really happen to unreal people.
08/29/09
Entertaining fourquel, heightened by smart direction and the best 3D effects since My Bloody Valentine.
08/29/09
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.
08/29/09
Selling bland fatalism to kids, it's the work of crooks.
11/04/09
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