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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.

-Tom RussoFull Review

A surprising infusion of energy and macabre humor reanimates this horror franchise.

-Bruce DionesFull Review

The death sequences are fun; unfortunately, nearly everything in between is tedious and mechanical.

-Eric D. SniderFull Review

Director Steven Quale stages the death scenes with intermittently effective black humour to juice up a premise that, essentially, has all the suspense of watching the line at an abattoir.

-Liam LaceyFull Review

Under the direction of James Cameron protege Steven Quayle, the visual effects from Ariel Velasco Shaw (who has crafted mayhem on everything from 300 to Freddy vs. Jason) ensure that no industrial hook through a skull is left unimagined.

-Lisa SchwarzbaumFull Review

So tapped into its audience's giddy schadenfreude that beyond a kinkier-than-usual jolt of black humor and some clever red herrings, the formula remains rote...

-Aaron HillisFull Review

From the opening credits to the final kill this film displays a great use of 3-D.

-Richard RoeperFull Review

A long and eventually tedious series of deaths, all in slightly sickening 3-D. Splattered eyeballs, snapped spines, heart kebabs - one numbingly after another, in diamond-hard focus and ruby-red color.

-Stephen WhittyFull Review

A suspenseful and macabre exercise in dread for the absurdly cosseted.

-Kyle SmithFull Review

First-time feature director Steven Quale has brought this anemic franchise back to life, with an unexpected infusion of humor and energy.

-Elizabeth WeitzmanFull Review

Stick a fork in the Final Destination franchise - probably something that's been done in some variation to a poor slob in every one of the ongoing series. It's done.

-Linda BarnardFull Review

"Final Destination 5" is irresistible, and the reason it's irresistible is that it speaks to us in the language we all understand, which is fear.

-Mick LaSalleFull Review

The Godfather II it isn't, but for teens with money to burn, there are worse options to curdle blood.

-Scott BowlesFull Review

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.

-Mike HaleFull Review

An anemic installment in the decade-old series that seems content with giving viewers more of the same.

-Gary DowellFull Review

"FD 5" did not raise even a single goose bump - which for a movie that bills itself as horror is not a good thing.

-Betsy SharkeyFull Review

I'd venture to say it's the best Final Destination sequel - if you gauge success by overall shock value.

-Tirdad DerakhshaniFull Review

Final Destination 5 starts with an R-rated 3D bang, but the cheap thrills wear off way fast, and we're left with atrocious acting, feeble writing and clueless directing.

-Peter TraversFull Review

I'd rather see a documentary about the peaceable, versatile uses of WD-40, but you know teenagers.

-Michael PhillipsFull Review

The script and acting satisfy the genre's requirements by being thoroughly forgettable.

-John DeForeFull Review

When stuff that serves us turns deadly, we're in a world of hallucinatory hurt. FD5 occasionally generates that kind of frisson, but it never goes bone-deep.

-Kathleen MurphyFull Review

To borrow from TV terminology, the series hasn't jumped the shark yet, but the strain of inventing bizarre deaths is beginning to show.

-Kirk HoneycuttFull Review

Constrained by a formula as restrictive as the elements that define haiku or iambic pentameter, scripter Eric Heisserer and first-time feature helmer Steven Quale nevertheless generate a respectable amount of suspense in Final Destination 5.

-Joe LeydonFull Review

It's a slack but competently executed film of a script with butterknife-dull dialogue and actors cast because of their "type."

-Roger MooreFull Review

I expect this movie to make a lot of money at the box office, spent by fans eager to see still more cool ways for hot young characters to be slaughtered. My review will not be read by any of these people. They know what they enjoy.

-Roger EbertFull Review


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