While it is a unique idea with some really cool deaths, some of the performances were so bad and the plot at times felt aimless. It's still a fun watch though!

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 22, 2025

This is a very effective horror film that started a new franchise. Despite some mixed performances, I still enjoy this surprisingly grounded and entertaining horror movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 22, 2025

Final Destination removes all the clutter, and just focuses on delivering elaborate and ridiculous deaths. Sure it throws in some explanation and rules for why it is happening, but that is all window dressing.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 23, 2025

The premise is flawed and the exposition clumsy, but the methods of demise are as hilarious as they are ingenious, with Wong more intent on toying with our expectations than providing outright shocks.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 31, 2025

"Final Destination" is a pretty lousy movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 19, 2025

It’s rawer, spookier and less overtly pleased with itself ... Director James Wong glories in Final Destination’s portentous vision.

Full Review | May 25, 2025

'Final Destination' set a bar that the first four sequels never lived up to. It's smart, cool, fun, and is the reason why so many people in my generation have anxiety.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 23, 2025

At times the film jumps from one scene to the other with little regard for telling a coherent, linear story.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 22, 2025

The movie degenerates into a pointless, sadistic flick.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | May 22, 2025

It is creative, though none of it is subtle.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 22, 2025

Return your tray tables to the upright position and fasten your seat belts for "Final Destination," a bumpy, bloody and boisterous funhouse thrill ride.

Full Review | May 22, 2025

It's predictable but exciting stuff.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 22, 2025

How this awful, awful movie made it to the big screen is anyone's guess -- bribery? Blackmail? We'll probably never know.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | May 22, 2025

Wong and Morgan actually scare up quite a few surprises, even if the territory is all too familiar.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 22, 2025

Final Destination is pure shlock, pure and simple. But it's unadulterated, unashamed, and delivered with a certain hard-ball intensity.

Full Review | May 22, 2025

It is all quite preposterous, and the gruesome fun is enhanced by some truly moronic bits of dialogue.

Full Review | May 22, 2025

It's a clumsy film that lacks energy or ideas, and most of its horror sequences are simply inept, characterised more by tedium than tension.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | May 22, 2025

Wong directs smoothly but without conviction. Not frightening, but oddly glum.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 22, 2025

Wong's direction is dark and moody, the thrills suspenseful rather than gory.

Full Review | May 22, 2025

The film has an intelligence and reflectiveness atypical for the genre.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 22, 2025