The original concept of Final Destination in 2000 was something new in the teen horror sub genre that started with Scream in 1996. The premise was simple enough: a high school kid on a plane has a premonition about the plane’s fiery fate and all the people who exit the plane are then marked for death. Something something, you can’t cheat death.

Almost a decade after that first movie came out, this fourth film in the franchise keeps doing the same crap and it’s not any better. But see, this one is called “THE Final Destination” and that, ladies and gentlemen, is what really matters. Oh, and it was in 3D, too. Oooooooooooooooh.

The deadly event in this one is a NASCAR-type race that goes horribly wrong and kills most of the spectators. Our main character, Nick, has the premonition and makes a big scene that saves him, his friends, and a few other people who manage to leave the area in time.

They survived, but then the Rube Goldberg bad luck death sequences start up to kill them one-by-one. Nick figures out that the people are dying in sequence based on how they would have died in his original premonition.

The rest of the movie is Nick and his friends trying to track down whoever should be next in an attempt to warn them and stop death from getting to them. SPOILER ALERT: they fail every time and end up basically going to watch each horrific death.

The death sequences are very elaborate, but it really doesn’t have much of an impact with the recycled concept. They try to make the impending deaths frightening by building up suspense with all the little shots of showing something falling apart that will potentially kill someone. Really, a more appropriate title for this series should have been “Freak Accidents” rather than trying to make it all mystical like there is some unseen grim reaper pulling the strings.

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