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14 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 60Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfToo many digital effects ruin the spell of a tactile world of evil objects scheming your demise. But even a mediocre FD is better than more Jigsaw.
- 58Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanIt's no exaggeration to say that the actors have less personality than the pipes, nail guns, grinding gears, decaying beams, and slowly spreading oil spills that are fused, with a kind of empty-dread technical precision, into Rube Goldberg torture devices.
- 50L.A. WeeklyScott FoundasL.A. WeeklyScott FoundasEllis and screenwriter Eric Bress even go all meta on us with an "Inglourious Basterds"–esque finale set inside a 3D cinema, though their set pieces never quite muster the giddy brio of "Final Destination 1" and "3" auteur James Wong at his best.
- Though this latest entry has an OK sense of humor, moves swiftly enough and sports an effective opening sequence of racetrack destruction that puts its Fusion 3-D technology to good use, it mostly comes off as a particularly flimsy excuse to string together a bunch of gory killings.
- 40EmpireEmpireThe novelty factor stops and starts at the 3-D specs: this is a horror movie on tracks, not going anyplace new. Still, there’s some inventive grue-splashing as always.
- 30VarietyVarietyWith an array of gory mayhem only marginally enhanced by 3-D and a plot as developed as a text message, The Final Destination may finally sound the death knell for New Line's near-immortal horror franchise.
- 30The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe new gimmick here is that all the flying body parts and absurd impalements come in 3D. And that's about as inspired as anything gets in this edition. Story and character get chucked to the sidelines as the arena has room for only death scenes.
- 30The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThere used to be entertainment in the dodging and wit in the scripts; now there’s 3-D.
- 25New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottNew Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottThe characters aren't fully formed enough to care about, the humor is baseball-bat dull, and the story - such as it is - is never treated as anything more than a half-hearted means to get the audiences from one spectacular snuffing to the next.
- 25The A.V. ClubTasha RobinsonThe A.V. ClubTasha RobinsonThe whole movie is just one increasingly dull roll downhill. The same could be said for this once-fresh franchise.