Starring: Bobby Campo, Shantel VanSant, Haley Webb, Nick Zano
Director: David R. Ellis(Final Destination 2, Snakes on a Plane)
Release Date: August 28, 2009
Running Time: 1 hr 22 min
Budget: $40 million
Average Critics’ Choice: 30%
“…some inventive grue-splashing as always.” Nick de Semlyen, Empire
“…is just one increasingly dull roll downhill.” Tasha Robinson, The Onion (A.V. Club)
This fourth entry in the once original series is predictable and pointless, yet it manages to be an entertaining bad movie. After Nick (Campo) and his friends think they’ve cheated death after they survive a horrific racetrack accident (thanks to his unexplained but convenient premonition), the survivors begin to die meticulously detailed deaths one by one. The premise is interesting, but The Final Destination’s flaw is that it doesn’t bother adding any complexity such as telling us anything about the characters. They’re just used as invaluable pawns, and the movie’s just an excuse to showcase fetishized close-ups of deadly objects and to use 3-D to make the deaths even more disgusting and in-your-face.
