Final Destination 5
Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: August 12, 2011 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
50
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Mixed or average reviews based on 24 Critic Reviews
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10
Mixed:
11
Negative:
3
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60
Time OutJoshua RothkopfAug 12, 2011
But you do take the film home with you - to all your own toys - and that's what decent horror is supposed to do. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanAug 12, 2011
Quale has brought this anemic franchise back to life, with an unexpected infusion of humor and energy. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyAug 12, 2011
Periodically, thanks to the 3-D, a long and pointy object emerges from the screen, threatening to impale the viewers through their eyeballs, enhancing the movie's guilty pleasure by reminding us that we, too, are made of vulnerable flesh and bone. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeTom RussoAug 12, 2011
Stabs at the dramatic don't amount to anything that makes us care, even for Bell, who has been solid on AMC's "The Walking Dead'' and in the chairlift chiller "Frozen.'' But genre fans who have been thirsting for gore via acupuncture needles or a LASIK machine should get their giddy fill. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeyAug 11, 2011
FD 5 did not raise even a single goose bump - which for a movie that bills itself as horror is not a good thing. The camp factor, however, is high and makes the 95 minutes pretty much fly by. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerTirdad DerakhshaniAug 11, 2011
Director Steven Quale is economical: He ditches plot altogether, delivering instead nothing but set pieces. He does come up with a few genuinely creepy moments of Hitchcockian edge-of-your-seat suspense and a few very inventive deaths. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsAug 11, 2011
If more of the picture had the inventively grotesque payoff of the scene set at the gymnastics tryout, capped by a female character's inarguably poor dismount, we might have something to puke home about. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertAug 10, 2011
They (fans) know what they enjoy. They don't want no damn movies with damn surprises. I am always pleased when moviegoers have a good time; perhaps they will return to a theater and someday see a good movie by accident, and it will start them thinking. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubTasha RobinsonAug 10, 2011
While FD5 is less generic and less facilely goofy and ironic than past series installments, it's still a rote execution of formula that scores its biggest points with self-aware references to its predecessors - including a closing-credits montage of kills from Final Destinations past. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAug 18, 2011
Can this be the end of Death? If only. Read full review
40
The New York TimesMike HaleAug 11, 2011
A new wrinkle in how the killings spool out actually makes the film even more predictable, and the deaths, which tend to be squirmy rather than explosive, are so perfunctory and lazily jokey that they leave a decidedly bad aftertaste. Read full review
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