It lacks the wow factor of the opening disasters in some of the other movies, and just feels a bit uninspired.
The opening scene at the McKinley Speedway track pretty much sets the tone. No one’s going to argue with this, are they? The fourth Final Destination film, which inexplicably lost the “4” from its title, is the nadir of the franchise. Given the lack of survivors to tie one film to the next, it’s kind of surprising that New Line and Warner Bros have managed to make five of these movies, but since they have, let’s try putting them into some kind of order… 5. The Final Destination (2009) Hardly anyone lives to the end of a Final Destinationmovie the ones that do generally have to go to extreme measures, and it’s implied they won’t last long beyond the credits. The Final Destination franchise masks its incredibly bleak message with bright colors and inventive Mousetrap-style killings, but at heart, they’re about how everyone dies one day, and the whole world is out to get you. Its characters don’t get to hope for survival if they can outrun a man with a knife or shoot a zombie square in the head – they’re being hunted by Death itself, and there’s no escape. Final Destination is the most existential horror franchise of them all.
