Final Destination

Theatrical Release Date: 2009 08 28 (USA - 3D) / 2009 09 21 (USA - 3-D) / 2009 (USA - 3-D)

UPC: 794043130014

Studio: New Line Home Video

MPAA Rating: R   Contains:[Profanity, Sexual Situations, Gore]

Summary: The Final Destination series gets a kick-start with this fourth outing, headed up by the production team behind the second film -- director David R. Ellis and writer Eric Bress. The New Line franchise will be presented for the first time in 3-D with this installment focusing on a teenager that dodges a trip to the grave at a racetrack, only to find that death has a way of equaling the playing field after the fact. Shantel VanSanten, Bobby Campo, and Hayley Webb star in the sequel. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, Rovi

Category: Horror

Features: Additional scenes

Limited Time Only:
Both 2D & 3D versions of the film included
Digital copy of the of the film
2 pairs of 3D glasses

Final Destination

Format: Blu-ray

Release Date: 01/05/2010

Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1 2.40:1

Audio: DHMA null, DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1, DD2 Dolby Digital Stereo

Runtime: 82 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,Spanish

Subtitles: Spanish

Jason Buchanan

Welcome to The Final Destination, a world where anything more injurious than a wet Q-tip on a shag carpet will explode your body into a crimson mist of blood and bone dust. Surrender yourself to the fact that Hollywood could quite possibly go on making Final Destination films forever, and then the only question left to ask yourself is "Does this particular one deliver the gruesome goods?" The short answer is yes, but much like our old friend Death, there's simply no escaping the law of diminishing returns. We've seen the same story set into motion by an airplane crash, a freeway accident, and an amusement park disaster; this time it's a group of friends who narrowly escape a spectacular racetrack smash-up that get the Grim Reaper's cloak in a bunch. As usual, the death-cheaters are a bland pastiche of unremarkable, well-coiffed young adults who scramble to make sense of their unlikely survival while gradually realizing that they haven't exactly gotten off scot-free. When the body count continues to rise post-catastrophe, our shaken protagonists realize that they're dying in the order they would have if they hadn't heeded the warning of a clairvoyant vision, and they desperately attempt to break the cycle. A pop-gore gallery of horrors, David R. Ellis' second crack at the series is exactly what you've come to expect: several messy, ridiculously implausible death scenes crammed into a compact, highly efficient 82 minutes -- in 3-D. Herschell Gordon Lewis might have made something similar if bestowed a crew of CG artists and a bottomless well of Red Bull. The movie throbs with hyperactive menace from the very first frame, never giving us a chance to catch our breath as it lobs an endless barrage of lethal projectiles at our faces while racing from one hilariously grisly set piece to the next. It's kind of like the Hurt Locker of horror, only replace the intelligent subtext of that film with some unsavory cartoon racism and laughable, faux-profound musings on fate. Ellis and company know the rules of the genre so well they could recite them backwards in a coma, so the fun of The Final Destination is just buckling our seat belts and letting them spike the needle (indeed, this installment is the shortest in the series by nearly ten minutes). Yet, even with the added visual gimmick, the third sequel in the series never does quite soar to the deliriously outrageous heights of Final Destination 2 -- a high watermark for preposterous horror and that rare sequel that tops the original -- though this installment does deliver an exhilarating splat-blast of tasteless pandemonium that some fun-loving gore-hounds are bound to savor. Well, you came to see a crash, didn't you? ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Cast and Crew: David R. Ellis  Director 
Richard Brener  Executive Producer 
Craig Perry  Producer 
Warren Zide  Producer 
Brian Tyler  Composer (Music Score) 
Eric Bress  Screenwriter 
Walter Hamada  Executive Producer 
Sheila Hanahan Taylor  Executive Producer 
Bobby Campo  Actor 
Shantel VanSanten  Actor 
Nick Zano  Actor 
Haley Webb  Actor 
Mykelti Williamson  Actor 
Krista Allen  Actor 
Andrew Fiscella  Actor 
Justin Welborn  Actor 
Stephanie Honoré  Actor 
Lara Grice  Actor 
Jackson Walker  Actor 
Phil Austin  Actor 
William Aguillard  Actor 
Brendan Aguillard  Actor 
Juan Kincaid  Actor 
Monique Detraz  Actor 
Chris Fry  Actor 
Cecile Monteyne  Actor 
Stacey Dizon  Actor 
Dane Rhodes  Actor 
Gabrielle Chapin  Actor 
Harold Evans  Actor 
Camille E. Bourgeois III  Actor 
Curtis E. Akin  Actor 
Eric Paulsen  Actor 
Belford Carver  Actor 
Dennis Nguyen  Actor 
Jedda Jones  Actor 
Joseph T. Ridolfo  Actor 
Chris Langlois  Actor 
Trey Burvant  Actor 
Larry E. Lundy Jr.  Actor 
Courtney James  Actor 

Country: USA