Final Destination 4 Reviews Cannot Cheat Death
Like its predecessors, The Final Destination starts with a teen getting a flash forward about him and his friends dying in a horrible accident - then getting targeted by Death itself after they survive their destined demises. The big difference in this fourth film is that the cheated death takes place at a NASCAR race, and that the remainder of the elaborate deaths are in 3D.
To end summer, Final Destination 4 opens in the same weekend as Halloween 2. In the end, The Final Destination 4 reviews are only slightly worse than Halloween 2, at least early on. But lousy Final Destination reviews are no surprise, even though the series has tried to be different from other slasher films.
When the franchise began 10 years ago, it was like a predecessor to the Saw movies, in that the Final Destination franchise had overly-elaborate, gory, Rube Goldberg-like methods of death. The difference was that the killer was Death, not a masked maniac or a dying, moralizing psychopath.
Presenting such elaborate deaths, in even more gory fashion, in the 3D format looked like a good idea for the fourth installment. But each Final Destination 4 review isn't all that impressed with the gruesome deaths in 3D, or in 2D.
Only 20 Final Destination 4 reviews are in Rotten Tomatoes thus far, with only three positive and 17 negative, for a 3.5 rating out of 10. This puts the Final Destination 4 review rating about six percentage points behind Halloween 2, which has a 21% positive review count.
It may seem weird that two horror sequels are out to close the summer, instead of being put in October. But since the actual Halloween holiday belongs to Saw every year, slightly less stomach-churning fare like Final Destination 4 and Halloween 2 is left to get some preliminary stabs in with the remaining summer audience.
Sources
Rotten Tomatoes- "The Final Destination" www.rottentomatoes.com/m/final_destination_final_death_trip_3D/
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Post a CommentRetarded MOVIE! Same dumb jock friend with the same nerdy guy. Same dumb extras that always try to fight the guy that saved them. SAME! SAME! SAME! I turned the rented movie off after the 1st 15 minutes!
Woah...a little too heavy on the SEO there, buddy.
this movie is AWFULL!!! do not see it. i was soo offended when they showed the sex scene. come on realy, do you have to show that much nudity. there was no point in that. the first 3 where better. so not worth renting or seeing for free even. i am so disgusted. i feel bad for letting my brothers see it w me. ne way DONT WATCH THIS MOVIE!!!!!!!
it was an okay movie. it wasn't the greatest in thw world. i agree with the critics 2 was better than them all. to much dig affects and even though it was bad i did lik the part when the 1 guys guts had got sucked out! but the guts were digital nd y wuld ur heart still be beating if it no longers has a bodi 2 support or blood 2 give 2 ur bodi....duh
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This movie was aweful. I was expecting so much, but it was more like "look, im a 3d movie, applaud me" instead of just being a good solid horror flick. Too bad. I rarely go to the movies anymore since i have very young kids, but when i do it sucks when its a flop. Oh well maybe next time....
This was the absolute worst out of the series. I 100% agree with the comment below me. They did focus way too much on the gore and there really wasn't even a great plot. And there were way too many computer animations. The 3D just masked how aweful the movie was.
Final Destination 4 sucks!!!!! It was horrible. The other 3 were great, this one must've had a different director or something. It wasnt the actors fault, they did they're job, it was the script that sucked. They focused too much on gore and guts, instead of just making an interesting death scene. Plus too many computer animations. .. The movie was just horrible, what a shame with all of the hype.
Just got home from the movie and I wasn't too impressed. The screen was entirely too dark with the 3-D glasses on. The 3-D effects weren't that great, the quality was much better when not using the glasses.
I thought the 3D move was an awesome choice! Go see it, u'll be pleasantly surprised!