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The Final Destination (3D) is just awful.  How awful is “just awful?”  I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone, even if they were seeing it for free in an air conditioned theater while it’s 100 degrees outside, and the filmmakers themselves were there to personally give each moviegoer an hour long massage… with a happy ending (which is pretty close to how I saw it… minus the happy ending).

Being the 4th film in a franchise that basically exists to find unique and contrived ways to kill people, the premise has been entirely squeezed dry by the last 3 films.  If you take what’s left of this somewhat beating heart of a concept, let it bake in the sun for 10 years, then go stale, then grind that remainder into a dry and lifeless pulp, that’s the kind of stuff that’s loosely sprinkled onto a hollow shell of a story that makes up this horrible movie going experience.  In addition to all of that, the film throws on a pair 3D glasses and is completely directed around objects unnecessarily flying at the audiences face, in order to garner the lowest common denominator of thrills.

The Final Destination has absolutely nothing going for it.  The characters are completely uninteresting and lifeless.  I went through the entire film without ever knowing or eventually caring what the lead character’s name is.  Ultimately you’ll just end up saying to yourself, “The guy with the brown hair has to save the girl with the blonde hair from dying… I think…”  That’s seriously the level of attachment these ‘characters’ generate.  And the worst thing of all is that there’s absolutely no subtlety or surprise with the film.

*SPOILER ALERT*

Literally every death that takes place in the movie, is referenced in the trailer.  And if not, it’s basically spelled out for you before it happens.

Please do not go see this movie.  It is a sad world that we live in when amazing horror films like Drag Me to Hell, will make less at the box office than this terrible dump of film making.  I hope for everyone’s sake that this is the end for the Final Destination franchise.

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ADDITION: The half star rating that I gave to this film, is only due to the opening credit sequence, which was interesting to watch, and by far the only well done thing about the film.