The Final Destination (2009)

After a young man's premonition of a deadly race-car crash helps saves the lives of his peers, Death sets out to collect those who evaded their end.

Director:

David R. Ellis

Writers:

Eric Bress, Jeffrey Reddick (characters)

Stars:

Nick Zano, Krista Allen, Andrew Fiscella

2 wins & 2 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Bobby Campo	...	Nick
Shantel VanSanten	...	Lori
Nick Zano	...	Hunt
Haley Webb	...	Janet
Mykelti Williamson	...	George
Krista Allen	...	MILF / Samantha
Andrew Fiscella	...	Mechanic
Justin Welborn	...	Racist
Stephanie Honoré	...	Mechanic's Girlfriend
Lara Grice	...	Racist's Wife
Jackson Walker	...	Cowboy
Phil Austin	...	MILF's Husband
William Aguillard	...	Kid #1
Brendan Aguillard	...	Kid #2
Juan Kincaid	...	Newscaster

Storyline

While watching a car race at McKinley Speedway, Nick O'Bannon has a premonition of a car crash that will result in many casualties, including several people that are in the audience. Nick convinces his girlfriend Lori, along with his friends Hunt and Janet to leave. A security guard named George Lanter, along with a racist named Carter, a mother and her two sons, and several other people follow Nick out. Shortly after they leave, Nick's premonition comes true. When survivors start dying, Nick, his friends, and George must try to find the remaining survivors and save them from Death before it is too late.

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Plot Keywords:

premonition | car crash | collapsing scaffold | tooth knocked out | overflowing bathtub | 

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Taglines:

Death saved... the best for last.

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Genres:

Horror | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for strong violent/gruesome accidents, language and a scene of sexuality

Did You Know?

Trivia

The "Final Destination" series began when Flight 180 crashed in Final Destination (2000). At the race track, the victims are seated in section 180 (as shown on a sign behind them) and later, while viewing video camera footage, the video camera footage briefly shows the number on the screen indicating which seating section the camera records. A bus that is seen passing the café is clearly marked on the roof as number 180.

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Goofs

(at around 31 mins) When Hunt and Janet pay a visit to Nick and Lori to discuss about the possibility to exist a chain of deaths or a specific order, Janet leaves and Hunt follows her. Immediately after he gets up the couch, his shirt allows some belt to be visible in his back. He turns around to say something, and when he leaves, his shirt is actually OK.

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Quotes

Nick: That's the car that's gonna crash. We have to get out of here.
Janet: Thank God, I don't...
Lori: What?
Hunt Wynorski: What? No, no, I've got 500 dollars in that one, and I told you that...
Janet: No one cares about the money we have...
Nick: No, look! We've got to get the fuck out of here! Okay? Something's gonna happen, we are all gonna die! All right? 'Cause there's gonna be a crash!

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Crazy Credits

Opening credits run over a "greatest hits" of the kills in earlier installments, presented as 3D CGI X-rays.

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Alternate Versions

Available in 2D and 3D on both DVD and Blu-ray.

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Connections

Referenced in Scream 4 (2011)

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Soundtracks

Make You Crazy
Written and Performed by Brett Dennen
Courtesy of Dualtone Music Group

User Reviews

It's not actually final...

You can just imagine the suits sitting around their big round table discussing how to churn out another financially beneficial Final Destination movie and get away with it. Big suit number one puts forward that they obviously need more inventive mouse trap like deaths. Big suit number two has the genius notion that 3D is again taking off so why not utilise that option too. And that's pretty much all that it took, with the end result being a movie that is very self aware of its roots, but still plays out as the runt of the Final Destination litter.

Just as the director of the first one, James Wong, was brought back to direct part 3, the makers here bring back the director of part 2, David R. Ellis, to direct part 4! Which ultimately proves to be nothing more than some sort of nepotism like factor because The Final Destination is basically just over 82 minutes of poor acting, bad writing and a series of kills weaved together by the odd 5 minutes of barely relevant characterisations (the exposition as painful as the gory deaths!).

The kills entertain as they pretty much always have throughout the franchise, with the opening disaster sequences (here set at a speedway stadium) continuing one of the series' great traditions. While the opening and closing X-Ray/Skeletal credit sequences are superb and a credit to those involved. Yet it all feels so tired, where in spite of the willingness to upgrade the technology, it's still lazy and has nothing to really justify its very being other than that to make easy money.

The makers of part 5 would have to come up with something special to not turn this franchise from being one that was once bright and inventive, into that of a money train joke. 4/10

Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

28 August 2009 (USA)

Also Known As:

Final Destination 4

Filming Locations:

Springfield Centre Mall, McKinley Pennsylvania, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$40,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$27,408,309, 30 August 2009

Gross USA:

$66,477,700

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$186,167,139

Company Credits

Production Co:

New Line Cinema, Practical Pictures, Parallel Zide

Technical Specs

Runtime:

82 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital DTS SDDS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.39 : 1