The Final Destination

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The Final Destination

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Released Aug 28, 2009

1h 22m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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While enjoying a day at the track, Nick O'Bannon (Bobby Campo) has a horrific premonition of his friends and him all dying in a freak accident involving many racecars. Mere seconds before the vision comes true, he manages to convince them to leave. Although they cheat death then, the survivors each begin to meet a grisly end, and Nick tries to figure a way to escape a similar fate.

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Critics Consensus

With little of the ingenuity of previous installments, The Final Destination is predictable, disposable horror fare.

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Sandra Hall

Sydney Morning Herald

The film showers you with gore while dumping a motor engine in your lap and poking you in the eye with a burnt stick.

Rated: 2/5

Oct 15, 2009

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Jake Wilson

The Age (Australia)

The 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.

Rated: 3/5

Oct 15, 2009

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Sara Michelle Fetters

MovieFreak.com

For me, this has always been a series of films that, other than a couple of inventive kills and one insanely choreographed opening sequence, has always been more or a less a waste of time.

Rated: 1.5/4

Sep 4, 2009

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Megan Williams

Battle Royale With Cheese

The actors all do well enough for the roles they’re given, but the film chooses to focus more on the deaths and frequent premonitions rather than character development, leaving the characters flat and uninteresting.

Nov 17, 2024

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Jason Adams

My New Plaid Pants

Clocking in at under an hour and a half and filled to the brim with devilishly sick set-pieces, and with plenty of viscera slapping you across the face thanks to the gloriously cheesy exploitation of the third dimension

Jan 14, 2022

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Matthew Rozsa

matthewrozsa.com

It reminds us that a "Nazi ain't got no humanity." They -- and Trump supporters like them -- must be depicted as punchlines, not normal people, so America will never tolerate them.

Rated: 0.5/5

Oct 8, 2020

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Jose Luis G

The worst of the franchise. The first death scenario doesn’t even make sense how everything happens in that same spot. Then the other deaths are goofy and unrealistic.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

08/10/25

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Blu B

Worst of the franchise by a wide margin. It's biggest strikes are it is literally the EXACT same movie for the 4th time and just everything is watered down worse than a Jurassic Park sequel or a Roland Emmerich disaster movie. The acting just isn't good at all. Like it's almost shockingly subpar. It feels like no one is trying or is incapable of it. There is no effort made at character at all. Literally half the people I don't even think have names in this that are said. The performances are so wooden, blend in, and I'm literally already forgetting everyone. The music isn't good either. It's generic/forgettable at best and trying to be too extreme and hardcore and modern for it's own good. Everything else is just terrible. The 3D effects/scenes are maybe 1.5 steps above Jaws 3D/Freddy's Dead. They are so out of place, look horrifcally bad, and are laughably bad. A major strike against this. Than it's so jumpy and most of the kills feel pointless and we just go through the same progressions we have through the past trilogy. And nothing is done well at all. It looks so cheap and like a SyFy movie of the week half the time production wise. It's so weird how this franchise has a problem with every other entry being shotty looking. Skip This.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

07/16/25

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Mr.Homebody#18 M

It's not that bad but the CGI is horrendous

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

07/11/25

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Alexander S

The Final Destination lives down to its name by delivering a movie that's more of a dead end than a thrilling conclusion, with acting, CGI, and action sequences that are all equally subpar. Grading: D

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

07/09/25

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Max W

With few memorable moments and a lack of truly gruesome death sequences, The Final Destination offers little innovation over its predecessors, relying almost entirely on its 3D gimmick without delivering much else of substance.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

06/29/25

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Pedro Henrique C

The Final Destination is the worst film in the franchise so far, honestly even though the film is the shortest the story doesn't manage to develop its characters very well and has some terrible CGI.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

06/24/25

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Synopsis

While enjoying a day at the track, Nick O'Bannon (Bobby Campo) has a horrific premonition of his friends and him all dying in a freak accident involving many racecars. Mere seconds before the vision comes true, he manages to convince them to leave. Although they cheat death then, the survivors each begin to meet a grisly end, and Nick tries to figure a way to escape a similar fate.

Director: David R. Ellis
Producer: Craig Perry, Warren Zide
Screenwriter: Eric Bress
Distributor: Warner Bros.
Production Co: Practical Pictures, Parallel Zide
Rating: R (Language|A Scene of Sexuality|Strong Gruesome Accidents|Strong Violent Accidents)
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 28, 2009, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 1, 2011
Box Office (Gross USA): $66.5M
Runtime: 1h 22m

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