Release Date – 8/28/09
Nick and his buddies are at a racing event when DISASTER happens. A huge fiery crash takes out half the crowd, killing Nick and all his friends. All of a sudden Nick snaps back into reality and he’s still watching the race. Everything from his vision starts happening so he begs his friends to leave before the crash happens. He saves their life and they all cheat death. Then the survivors start mysteriously dying one by one in freak accidents. Sound familiar? Maybe because every Final Destination movie is the same thing. There are definitely some comical death scenes but this movie is otherwise just the same ol’ garbage.
The movie is mostly comprised of no name actors. Bobby Campo plays Nick who sees visions throughout the entire movie. He only gets bits and pieces of how each person is going to die but no faces to make it definite. So he decides the only way to stop the chain of deaths is to break it and save someone AGAIN. Nick Zano plays Hunt, the cliché horror movie douchebag. All he cares about is being a jerk to people and getting laid. The same character was just in the Friday the 13th remake. Every horror movie should have one of these guys because he’s such a douche that you want to see him get what’s coming to him. The chicks, Haley Webb and Shantel VanSanten, are pretty boring which is a big negative for a horror flick. They hit the nail on the head with the jerk character but didn’t amp up the sex with the girls. Major no-no. The only other main character is Mykelti Williamson (Con-Air, Forrest Gump) as a security guard at the race who is also saved by Nick’s vision. For being the only known face, he’s built up the worst and we don’t learn much about him.
The movie is a joke. The entire film is all about badly constructed devices killing people. Death is all about unscrewing screws and collapsing concrete, not to mention making electronic devices malfunction. Death sure is a jokester when it comes to killing people. And I can’t even count how many times they think they broke the chain and were wrong. Every other scene is about them thinking it’s all over and then someone else dies. And sometimes they didn’t even acknowledge when a friend died. This is just a poorly written movie. Eric Bress was the writer and David R. Ellis was the director of Final Destination 2 and they returned for this fourth installment. I don’t know what interested Ellis in the project because it’s pretty much the same exact movie that Bress wrote for the 2nd one six years ago except now in 3D. Hopefully this really is THE Final Destination.
IMDB – 6/10
Rotten Tomatoes – 31%
Movie Wiseguys – 4.5/10
