The Final Destination (2009)

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To me, this movie is perfection.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

While it was not a great or perfect film (particularly in the dialogue, ending and some of the acting), the first 'Final Destination' was entertaining and effective (especially with its terrific opening plane sequence and the creative deaths) with a fascinating idea done well.The bigger and bolder 'Final Destination 2' had its flaws but was just as good and perhaps the best of the four sequels. 'Final Destination 3' is just as big and bold, as well as gorier, and is also as good. The fourth instalment 'The Final Destination' is the worst of the series, and highly suggestive of the gimmick's novelty wearing off and running out of ideas. The second and third films were hardly original, but had scenes and deaths that were scary and fun and looked like they were made on a professional level.Neither can be said for 'The Final Destination'. Only the suspenseful car wash scene and the pretty ingenious opening credits work. All the other scary scenes/deaths are cheaply rendered, anaemic in atmosphere and bring more unintentional humour than tension or suspense. The gratuitously stomach-churning gore content cheapens them further. The film looks cheap too, especially in the special effects which are laughably amateurish and the less than slick editing. David R. Ellis returns from the second film and what made his direction work there doesn't come through here.It is hard to connect with the content when the characterisation, writing and acting are not up to par. With the sole exception of that for Mykelti Williamson, whose role is not big, none of the characters are developed well and are even more shallow, bland and annoying than in the previous three films. Apart from Williamson and Krista Allen, the acting is poor. Bobby Campo, lacking charisma, and Shantel VanSanten and Haley Webb forgetting to emote are the dishonourable mentions.The previous 'Final Destination' films had some black or ironic humour and some tension, 'The Final Destination' has neither, which makes the dull down-time between the deaths, silliness and contrivances far less forgivable, on top of the lack of character development and scares. The film is also too short and too rushed in places, the opening scene did nothing for me and the ending is the most illogical and stupidest of the series.Only saving graces are two decent performances (Williamson and Allen), two good scenes (the car wash and opening credits) and the eerie music score. The 3D is pretty good too if pointless.Everything else however contributes towards a disappointing mess of a film. 3/10 Bethany Cox

I cannot understand how people thought this an even halfway decent movie. All the deaths were the most ridiculous, implausible sequences imaginable. I was expecting to see that this travesty was crapped out by The Asylum. I guess it was just written, produced, directed by and special effects done by graduates from The Asylum instead.The "special effects" looked like something out of the 90s, the acting was so wooden it could keep the world's entire paper supplies going for the next decade, the "action" sequences were laughable. It was about as suspenseful as watching a dead blade of grass growing.Don't bother watching it.

The trend for modern 3D horror flicks continues with THE FINAL DESTINATION, the fourth in the series and the first to use 3D. I'd previously experienced 3D in the cinema with the MY BLOODY VALENTINE remake, so I had some idea what to expect: not much of a story or acting, but lots of grisly, eye-popping gore effects and stuff flying out of the screen. On the strength of that, THE FINAL DESTINATION delivers – in spades.This one's really a different beast from those which have come before. The set-up is the same, the scenarios very familiar by now, so the filmmakers decide to just go ahead and have some fun with the premise (you get the idea when you see the credits, which pay homage to all of the deaths in the previous films). The opening accident sequence is very well done, a lot better than the roller-coaster accident in the last film, and up there with the road accident in the second instalment, which Ellis also directed.However, the characters are even sketchier than before, with barely anyone getting more of a look-in. Ironically, the characters are two-dimensional even if the special effects are 3D. Bobby Campo is a fairly likable protagonist – probably my favourite of the series, in fact – but the filmmakers chose to focus on the deaths this time around, meaning there are far more extended death sequences and less time to develop the supporting cast. Mykelti Williamson stands out as the security guard helping to figure out what's going on, but he's the only one.Which leads me to the special effects: this film is all about them. Just as was the case with VALENTINE, there's absolutely no reason to watch this in 2D: the whole point of the film lies in the 3D effects. And they're excellent. Stuff seems to be constantly flying out of the screen – ashes, fire, nails, tyres, poles, body parts, you name it – and I was often blinking and ducking as the film successfully fooled my eyes into thinking it was all real. The death sequences are more elaborate than before, and also more suspenseful. There's a stand-out elevator scene, a good self-referencing bit within a 3D cinema, and a tricky interlude in a hairdresser's. The filmmakers have also upped the gore quotient big time, to the levels seen in the SAW sequels: there are guts, intestines, livers, eyeballs, and all manner of squished special effects along with buckets of blood being splashed across the screen. Tame this ain't: it's the goriest of the franchise yet and not for lily-livered viewers. In any case, you know what you're getting with this movie: lots of effects, lots of gross-outs, nothing much else.

Spoiler Alert!!! The story is basically the first 3 but the this time it's a lot lamer in the kills and very unrealistic. This sequel is pretty much a cash grab idea that adds nothing new to the story. I'm sorry if you enjoyed this but it really doesn't add anything new to deaths personality and instead only focuses on the gore rather than having an actual story. The original Final destination at least had an interesting and scary idea in which death is unavoidable with realistic kills. I think that this one shouldn't really be seen by anybody who are truly fans of the first three. It is only about the core and has very boring characters that mean nothing at all. I didn't even care if any single one of them died, isn't that sad? At least in the first 3 you could understand the character's point of views as with this one you aren't rooting for anybody because they are all boring. The deaths aren't even fun they are very boring and dull. The only death that I liked was Samantha's because it seemed realistic enough. Overall, It's lucky I can only rate it a one if I could I'd give it a .5 out of 10.