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FINAL DESTINATION 5Movie Reviews
Horror thriller about a group of co-workers who are stalked by death after avoiding a grisly demise in a massive suspension bridge collapse. Cast:Emma Bell, Nicholas D'Agosto, Miles Fisher, Arlen EscarpetaDirector:Steven QualeRelease Date:August 12, 2011DVD Release:December 27, 2011From:Warner Bros.Rating:RLength:1 hr 35 minIn 3D
Final Destination 5 played to moderate reviews. • Stephen Whitty wrote in the New Jersey Star-Ledger, "You could go buy a ticket... Or you could sit in your living room and have a friend throw sharp objects at your head.... the result would be exactly the same..." • And Kat Murphy wrote for MSN Movies, "Everybody knows going in that 'Final Destination 5' isn't really a movie any more than it is a meat grinder." More Reviews Below...
Final Destination 5 Positive Reviews (32 Reviews, reviews below)
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: VERY GOOD(cg) "...for those of us who enjoy the 'FD' series' grotesquely clever premise beyond reason, unfortunate folks still refuse to pay attention, with inventively dire consequences."(See all of Lisa Schwarzbaum's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 442 words, 08/12/11
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: POOR(cg) "...the cheap thrills wear off way fast, and we're left with atrocious acting, feeble writing and clueless directing (from first-timer Steven Quale). The horror! The horror!"(See all of Peter Travers's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 137 words, 08/12/11
Scott Bowles, USA Today: GOOD (NOT GREAT)(cg) " 'The Godfather II' it isn't, but for teens with money to burn, there are worse options to curdle blood.... for mindless horror, this isn't a terminal destination."(See all of Scott Bowles's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 358 words, 08/12/11
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: MODERATE(cg) "The direction by Steven Quale is efficient, and the special effects do an excellent job of beheading, incinerating, vivisecting, squishing and so on."(See all of Roger Ebert's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 626 words, 08/12/11
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NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES/CHICAGO/TORONTO (13 Reviews)
Mike Hale, New York Times: WEAK "...the deaths, which tend to be squirmy rather than explosive, are so perfunctory and lazily jokey that they leave a decidedly bad aftertaste."(See all of Mike Hale's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 238 words, 08/12/11
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: GOOD (NOT GREAT)(cg) "...director Steven Quale and screenwriter Eric Heisserer do keep us on edge. Better still, they share an evident affection for the original..."(See all of Elizabeth Weitzman's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 403 words, 08/12/11
Kyle Smith, New York Post: GOOD (NOT GREAT)(cg) "...despite its lowbrow story, turns out to be one of the fastest-moving films of the year... a suspenseful and macabre exercise in dread for the absurdly cosseted."(See all of Kyle Smith's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 639 words, 08/12/11
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: MODERATE(cg) "...starring a million shards of glass and several interchangeably dull young actors plus a couple of good ones... delivers the gore with impersonal efficiency..."(See all of Michael Phillips's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 325 words, 08/12/11
Logan Hill, New York Magazine: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "The head-skewering impalements play shamelessly into unnecessary 3-D, but, whoa, the death-by-sailboat-mast is hysterically nasty..."(See all of Logan Hill's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 439 words, 08/13/11
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: MODERATE(cg) "The direction by Steven Quale is efficient, and the special effects do an excellent job of beheading, incinerating, vivisecting, squishing and so on."(See all of Roger Ebert's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 626 words, 08/12/11
Aaron Hillis, Village Voice/LA Weekly: MODERATE "...which innocuous wire, loose screw or stuffed animal will be responsible for forever putting us off the idea of LASIK surgery?"(See all of Aaron Hillis's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 211 words, 08/17/11
Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: MODERATE(cg) "Fanboys and girls will squeal over some deliberate shout-outs, like the movie's final death scene, and the post-finish homage to the best of the worst deaths."(See all of Linda Barnard's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 530 words, 08/12/11
Liam Lacey, Toronto Globe & Mail: MODERATE(cg) "Periodically, thanks to the 3-D, a long and pointy object emerges from the screen, threatening to impale the viewers through their eyeballs..."(See all of Liam Lacey's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 508 words, 08/12/11
Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: GOOD (NOT GREAT)(cg) "Director Steven Quale invests the production with a little more wit than usual. You're gonna want to keep an eye on the production design."(See all of Norman Wilner's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 166 words, 08/11/11
Tirdad Derakhshani, Philadelphia Inquirer: MODERATE(cg) "The opening credit sequence is a heady 3-D phantasmagoria.... The rest is a by-the-numbers iteration of the standard plot line..."(See all of Tirdad Derakhshani's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 402 words, 08/12/11
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: WEAK(cg) "...a script with butterknife-dull dialogue... Without a moral component to the tale, we're just treated to perfunctory killing effects and stunts and gore..."(See all of Roger Moore's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 508 words, 08/12/11
Stephen Whitty, New Jersey Star-Ledger: POOR(cg) "You could go buy a ticket... Or you could sit in your living room and have a friend throw sharp objects at your head.... the result would be exactly the same..."(See all of Stephen Whitty's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 546 words, 08/12/11
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: VERY GOOD(cg) "...elaborate and obliterating and unsettling and extremely funny... audiences end up laughing, yelling and gasping at the same time."(See all of Mick LaSalle's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 627 words, 08/12/11
ALTERNATIVE/INDIE PRESS (8 Reviews)
Aaron Hillis, Village Voice/LA Weekly: MODERATE "...which innocuous wire, loose screw or stuffed animal will be responsible for forever putting us off the idea of LASIK surgery?"(See all of Aaron Hillis's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 211 words, 08/17/11
Alexandra Cavallo, Boston Phoenix: MODERATE(cg) "Past the joys of the 3D splatter-fest (and 'Candyman's' creepo extraordinaire Tony Todd as the county coroner who knows what's up), it's just another dead end."(See all of Alexandra Cavallo's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 149 words, 08/18/11
Tasha Robinson, AV Club: FAIR(cg) "...instantly boring, yet dragged out at vast length. That's all fully appropriate for a series that's been coasting on the same gorehound storyline for more than a decade."(See all of Tasha Robinson's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 454 words, 08/11/11
Michelle Orange, Movieline: EXCELLENT(cg) "The performances are more solid and nuanced than is par for the genre, which compounds the sense of dread underlying the film's nihilistic, superficial approach..."(See all of Michelle Orange's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 1,075 words, 08/11/11
Ed Gonzalez, Slant: VERY GOOD(cg) "...its stabs at existential discourse go beyond the superficial and jokey... notable for its patience, sensitivity, and overall lack of flippancy."(See all of Ed Gonzalez's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 829 words, 08/12/11
Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: GOOD (NOT GREAT)(cg) "Director Steven Quale invests the production with a little more wit than usual. You're gonna want to keep an eye on the production design."(See all of Norman Wilner's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 166 words, 08/11/11
HIGHBROW PRESS (2 Reviews)
Mike Hale, New York Times: WEAK "...the deaths, which tend to be squirmy rather than explosive, are so perfunctory and lazily jokey that they leave a decidedly bad aftertaste."(See all of Mike Hale's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 238 words, 08/12/11
Joe Leydon, Daily Variety: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...duly adheres to tradition... But there's cheeky cleverness on display in the Rube Goldberg-style setups -- and darkly ironic payoffs -- for most of those death scenes."(See all of Joe Leydon's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 733 words, 08/11/11
Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter: MODERATE "...the suspense, or tease if you will, lies in guessing which of the objects in a location will terminate a character... the strain of inventing bizarre deaths is beginning to show."(See all of Kirk Honeycutt's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 890 words, 08/10/11
Mike Hale, New York Times: WEAK "...the deaths, which tend to be squirmy rather than explosive, are so perfunctory and lazily jokey that they leave a decidedly bad aftertaste."(See all of Mike Hale's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 238 words, 08/12/11
16.4 Percentage Points Average Difference Between Reviews (Norm is 18.4pp; <18.4pp = More Consistent; >18.4pp = More Mixed)
Final Destination 5's reviews are separated by an average 16.4 percentage points. The norm for this measure is 18.4 percentage points. Less than 18.4 indicates more consistent reviews; greater than 18.4 indicates more mixed reviews. In the chart below, each dot represents a review, with the dots at the top more positive than the dots at the bottom. From left to right, the dots represent reviews in big, bigger and biggest publications. Roll over each dot for more detail.
Final Destination 5 (32 reviews) Roll over dots for each review
Coverage:Final Destination 5's reviews cover 45.1% of potential readers (average is 67.9%). Volume:The film's reviews total 16,112 words involume (average is 20,194 words). Length:The film's reviews average 504 words in length (the norm is 517 words).
Reviews Broke 2.9 Hours After Release (Norm is 1.2 Release)
Final Destination 5's reviews on average broke 2.9 hours after opening. Norm for this measure is 1.2 hours before. The chart below shows reviews on opening day and the days before and after opening; the left side is earlier and the right side is later. The red bars extending above the horizontal mid-line represent more positive reviews, and the red bars extending below represent more negative reviews. The white space/red bar in the middle is Final Destination 5's opening day. Click on any bar for a list of the reviews for that day.
Final Destination 5 (32 reviews, click on bars for reviews)
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