| 83 |
Entertainment Weekly
An unexpectedly alert teen-scream disaster chiller.
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| 80 |
Los Angeles Times
A terrific theatrical feature debut for television veterans Glen Morgan and James Wong.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Playful and energized enough to keep an audience guessing.
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| 75 |
Chicago Sun-Times
Will no doubt be a hit and inspire the obligatory sequels.
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| 58 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
So grim and humorless that the first half almost sinks into silliness.
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| 50 |
Baltimore Sun
Fitfully thrilling.
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| 50 |
USA Today
Proudly stupid, silly and gory.
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| 50 |
Variety
Generates a respectable amount of suspense and takes a few unexpected turns while covering familiar territory.
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| 50 |
New York Post
OK premise quickly deteriorates into a silly, badly acted slasher movie -- minus the slasher.
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| 50 |
Chicago Reader
Disturbing--if less sophisticated than the best SF (science fiction)-horror TV.
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| 50 |
New York Daily News
A mediocre fright-fest.
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| 40 |
Film.com
It's hard to root against Death when the people involved are never brought to life in the first place.
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| 40 |
Austin Chronicle
Flawed but often entertaining teen horror flick.
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| 40 |
TV Guide
Serviceable enough, if you come to it with sufficiently modest expectations.
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| 38 |
San Francisco Examiner
Stupid.
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| 38 |
Chicago Tribune
Meets the low standards of a mediocre TV movie.
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| 38 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
As full of terrible acting as it is devoid of suspense.
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| 38 |
Boston Globe
Starts by cheating death and ends by cheating us.
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| 30 |
Dallas Observer
A waste of a decent premise.
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| 30 |
LA Weekly
Fails because it takes itself both too seriously and not seriously enough.
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| 30 |
Film.com
You'll laugh, but you'll hate yourself by the time you're out of the theater.
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| 30 |
Film.com
You'll definitely feel cheated -- especially when you keep on finding yourself thinking how Mulder and Scully would have handled it all.
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| 25 |
Miami Herald
Phoebe Flowers
Stoops well below substituting style for substance.
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| 20 |
Washington Post
Your own final destination just might be the box office, to demand your money back.
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| 20 |
Newsweek
Robert Cashill
Final destination? Video store bins.
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| 20 |
The New York Times
Even by the crude standards of teenage horror, Final Destination is dramatically flat.
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| 12 |
Mr. Showbiz
Crude and witless.
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| 0 |
TNT RoughCut
Inane, irresponsible, immature, poorly written.
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