The Final Destination (R)
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This is the fourth movie in the "Final Destination" franchise. It came out in 2009, but I didn't see it until 2025. I feel like I'm being slightly generous with my rating. I mean, it's not really a bad movie, it just doesn't bring anything new to the table, aside from the cast. (This is the first time in the franchise that not one actor was familiar to me.) It just seems like a pointless exercise in showing us gruesome new ways for people to die, which doesn't really differentiate it from any of the other movies. I kind of feel like if this were the first movie in the franchise, it might have been a bit better for having nothing else to really compare it to. But it still wouldn't have been as good as the actual first movie was (and that's not even my favorite movie in the franchise). I suppose I should mention it was a 3D movie, but I only saw it in 2D (though there were a few things in the movie that I guess I thought looked like they were supposed to be 3D).

Anyway, it starts with a group of friends watching a car race. They include Nick, his girlfriend Lori, and their friends Hunt and Janet. (I didn't really like Hunt, but at least he wasn't the worst character in the movie. Because there was also a blatantly racist asshole.) Nick has a premonition of a major accident on the racetrack that hurls debris from destroyed cars into the stands, killing lots of people, including Nick and his friends. When his vision is over, he forces his friends to leave, and a few other people get out, too. Of course, this means Death will end up coming for the survivors in various other ways, throughout the movie. Lori believes Nick about his premonition, but Hunt and Janet not so much. At one point, Nick and Lori meet a security guy from the racetrack, George. He calls what they have to say crazy, but inexplicably agrees to show them security footage from the race, trying to identify the order in which people died. George soon sees enough deaths of survivors to convince him they're right about what's happening, and continues trying to help them save people. Throughout the movie, Nick continues to have visions of survivors being killed, before it happens.

I won't reveal how it all ends, but there aren't really any major surprises in the movie. If all you want is to see lots of people die in complicated ways, then the movie is fine. But there's not really anything more to it than that. So, you know, movies in the franchise have a tendency to feel repetetive, and this one is a prime example of that.