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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Stuart R

It feels like they tried the least with this one. It’s got the weakest characters, weakest deaths, weakest effects yet, with no pacing and the lowest amount of effort required to tell a Final Destination story. 🍀

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

03/01/25

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Hayden C

Makes me want to tear out my eyes. The CGI was awful and I felt the kills were very underwhelming except maybe the pool kill. Also they repeated the same story over again and it started feeling pretty boring. I am pretty glad that this is the only Final Destination movie with Tony Todd. Also they tried to bring nostalgia with the car kill from the original and I think they failed at it.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/28/25

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Derrick K

It's mainly the terrible cgi for me.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/18/25

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Justin T

This is my least favourite of the franchise because it adds nothing new (except the 3D) and I didn’t like the animated premonitions. The deaths are the most forgettable of the series except for the escalator death. Having another big disaster at the end rather than some story feels lazy but then again the disasters are always fun to watch. It’s still a fun film and the 3D makes it more entertaining so it gets an extra point for that. It’s a short movie but still somehow feels repetitive compared to the other films in the series. The characters and casting is the most forgettable and generic of the series. But all of that doesn’t stop it being a fun film.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/10/25

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Julian S

Another FINAL DESTINATION installment, another batch of poorly written, disposable characters—but if you’re tearing through the franchise, it’s just watchable enough to keep you going.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/14/25

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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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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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