The Final Destination

"Rest in pieces."

2009 1h 22m EN

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A horrifying premonition saves a young man and his friends from death during a racetrack accident but terrible fates await them nonetheless.

“Rest in pieces.”

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Cast

Bobby Campo
Nick
Shantel VanSanten
Lori
Nick Zano
Hunt
Haley Webb
Janet
Mykelti Williamson
George
Krista Allen
MILF / Samantha
Andrew Fiscella
Mechanic
Justin Welborn
Racist

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: David R. Ellis
Writers: Eric Bress
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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RUNTIME

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82 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.

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MONEY

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Made its money back 4.7× over at the box office.

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ERA

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Released 17 years ago.

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CINEMA

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Part of the "Final Destination Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by David R. Ellis, shot by Glen MacPherson. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Brian Tyler. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Mark Stevens shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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8 / 8

CAST

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Bobby Campo and Shantel VanSanten and Nick Zano carry the top of the cast.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

David R. Ellis directs. Glen MacPherson behind the camera. Brian Tyler scores. Mark Stevens cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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182 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
2Made its money back 4.7× over at the box office.
3Released 17 years ago.
4Part of the "Final Destination Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
5Directed by David R. Ellis, shot by Glen MacPherson. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Original score by Brian Tyler. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Editor Mark Stevens shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
8Bobby Campo and Shantel VanSanten and Nick Zano carry the top of the cast.
9Marketing tagline: "Rest in pieces.".
10IMDB entry: tt1144884 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
11Classified under 13 themes, including "dying and death", "plan", "car race", "gore".
12Released under 10 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Glen MacPherson
Original score: Brian Tyler
Editing: Mark Stevens
Production design: Jaymes Hinkle
Costume design: Claire Breaux
Makeup / hair: Remi Savva
VFX supervisor: Philippe Theroux
Sound: Bob Beemer
Stunt coordinator: Casey O'Neill
Runtime: 82 min · 1h 22m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $40,000,000
Box office: $187,384,627
Return: 468% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: The Final Destination (2009)

Part of

Final Destination Collection

Final Destination is a series of horror films centered on the themes of fatalism, predestination, and precognition, in relation to death.

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David R. Ellis

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Leigh Bowden2012-07-29
I had low expectations when I entered the theater to see the 5th installment of the FD series, because the 4th movie was such a disappointment. But after watching it, I was surprised. First off,this movie was way,( and I mean), way better then the last two movies were. It was darker and had a lot of elements from the first movie, which I loved. I don't want to give away too much, but I do want to say that the last scene of the movie will leave you speechless. It had me thinking, "OMG, that was AMAZING how they came up with that twist." One last thing I loved about this movie was that it was well planned out and thought of, unlike the forth movie which was a joke and in my opinion, shouldn't have never been made. The deaths weren't rushed as opposed to the deaths in the forth movie, and it gave more screen time to introduce us to the characters. Note: I will say that there is one death scene in the movie that I didn't see coming, besides the ending. I recommend you see this movie. It might have the same theme as the first four movies, but unlike the first four, it's on a much higher scale.
John Chard2015-08-02
★ 4/10
It's not actually final... You can just imagine the suits sitting around their big round table discussing how to churn out another financially beneficial Final Destination movie and get away with it. Big suit number one puts forward that they obviously need more inventive mouse trap like deaths. Big suit number two has the genius notion that 3D is again taking off so why not utilise that option too. And that's pretty much all that it took, with the end result being a movie that is very self aware of its roots, but still plays out as the runt of the Final Destination litter. Just as the director of the first one, James Wong, was brought back to direct part 3, the makers here bring back the director of part 2, David R. Ellis, to direct part 4! Which ultimately proves to be nothing more than some sort of nepotism like factor because The Final Destination is basically just over 82 minutes of poor acting, bad writing and a series of kills weaved together by the odd 5 minutes of barely relevant characterisations (the exposition as painful as the gory deaths!). The kills entertain as they pretty much always have throughout the franchise, with the opening disaster sequences (here set at a speedway stadium) continuing one of the series' great traditions. While the opening and closing X-Ray/Skeletal credit sequences are superb and a credit to those involved. Yet it all feels so tired, where in spite of the willingness to upgrade the technology, it's still lazy and has nothing to really justify its very being other than that to make easy money. The makers of part 5 would have to come up with something special to not turn this franchise from being one that was once bright and inventive, into that of a money train joke. 4/10
Dark Jedi2018-03-09
★ 6/10
For some reason this one is named The Final Destination instead of Final Destination 4. Almost looks like they expected this installment to be the final in the series but since the 5th one is about to come out on Blu-ray that was obviously a wrong assumption in that case. A positive surprise. Most people have said that the second third and fourth film slipped compared to the first one and it wasn’t until the fifth film that the series took off again. Well they’re wrong in my opinion. This installment was a lot better than the third one. Sure if you do not like gory horror movies then you wont like this film but then why did you even bother with it? Me, I like these kind of films so I was quite happy to see it. The special effects was much better than the previous film and not so silly and stupid as they sometimes where in the third one. I liked the ending as well. Classical horror movie style ending and really cool touch with those x-ray shots.