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The Final Destination

Play trailer 2:01 Poster for The Final Destination R Released Aug 28, 2009 1h 22m Horror Mystery & Thriller Play Trailer Watchlist
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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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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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review Read all reviews

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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 Full Review Mr.Homebody#18 M It's not that bad but the CGI is horrendous Rated 3 out of 5 stars 07/11/25 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review Shaun R These films are pretty much all the same, and I’m not sure how much more original any sequel in the franchise can be. They are however entertaining, and the deaths are enough to keep a horror fan happy. Due to the concept of the films, I am not sure if these films will ever stop being made. For the sake of 90 minutes of nonsense, I say bring them on. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 06/22/25 Full Review Read all reviews
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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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