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August 28, 2009 by
Robert Dougherty

The Final Destination 4 review count is only going up tonight, as Final Destination 4 reviews were embargoed before today. Each Final Destination 4 review was held back before release, making The Final Destination 4 reviews just like that of another horror sequel, Halloween 2. But
Final Destination 4 Reviews Cannot Cheat Death
The Final Destination 4 review count is still barely larger than the body count for this third sequel, especially in 3D. Yet Final Destination 4 reviews aren’t pleased with the latest brush with death, in any dimension.

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.

My Movie Review:

This is the first Final Destination film I ever watched. I didn’t buy into the hype for the last three movies. Also I thought it was a teen flick;and it is. I don’t know why this is the number 1 box office hit at the moment. I thought it was rather lame. I mean the 3D effects were cool, but the plot was just lame. It was a relatively short film. Like an hour and 40 minutes. Not long at all. It’s supposed to be a thriller/horror. I wasn’t scared at all. It was gory in some parts, but I was un-phased. We should have went to see “Time Traveler’s Wife.” But this time we bought into the hype because it’s #1 in the box office and it was in 3D. I should have waited to watch it on cable or DVD. Really it’s not worth all that money. And it’s extra for 3D. I give it 2 stars out of 5. I wasn’t impressed. And I doubt I’ll see any more Final Destination films. It’s really for teens and college students. But then again I don’t think they’d rave about it either. No big name stars. Nobodys. Probably their only 15 minutes of fame. I was bored after the movie. Not scary at all. Save your money and wait for it to come out on DVD or cable. Unless you really want to see the cool 3D effects.

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