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24 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- It's the best 3D horror movie ever made, as much for its superlative technical merits as for its satisfying thrills.
- 75Slant MagazineEd GonzalezSlant MagazineEd GonzalezIf the series really does end here, may this final installment be hailed as a triumph of poetic justice.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttTo borrow from TV terminology, the series hasn't jumped the shark yet, but the strain of inventing bizarre deaths is beginning to show.
- 70VarietyJoe LeydonVarietyJoe LeydonThis latest entry in the 11-year-old horror series duly adheres to tradition by providing inventively grisly demises for various characters.
- 50Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThey (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.
- 50Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsChicago TribuneMichael PhillipsIf 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.
- 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.
- 42The A.V. ClubTasha RobinsonThe A.V. ClubTasha RobinsonWhile 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.
- 38Orlando SentinelRoger MooreOrlando SentinelRoger MooreThis isn't the worst of the bunch, not by far. But my premonition is this won't be the finale this series has screamed out for these past few years. This decapitation train never seems to reach its destination.
- 25Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversThe 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!