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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Joshua Rothkopf

Time Out

Rated: 3/5

Nov 17, 2011

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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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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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James B

It is a bit disrespectful to the previous films and is meant to be chronologically the last film but it is let down by bad CGI.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

12/14/24

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cinema f

“How will you die?” I love NASCAR but woah. I forget how gory these films are. 5/5 stars.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

11/26/24

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Char T

This series of films again, finding more ways to amp up the gore and thrill!

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

10/27/24

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Kimmi C

I REALLY struggled with this one. The acting was pretty awful everyone seemed to have no emotions either, the CGI/Digital Editing is horrendous, I'd imagine it was more focused on the 3D side of things, it let the whole film down. It also seems completely out of sync of the previous 3. The whole feel of it is completely different. It felt rather rushed, not much storyline between the death scenes either. Just found it cringy to be honest, how it ever got released is beyond me. It's a shame because the whole franchise is very well known. The worst thing, was that I paid to see this as it isn't free on anything. Lol.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

10/22/24

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Gianvito A

Way better than the previous one

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

10/18/24

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Christian V

This is some sort of the stupid déjà vu We’re all characters dies, and never change a bit about surviving this movie. It was so badly that I don’t like it!

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

10/06/24

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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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