Bloody delicious catnip

| Jan 14, 2022

Nicholas D'Agosto is probably strongest among the cast here.

| Original Score: 2.0/4.0 | Sep 7, 2020

Wall-to-wall impalings, eyes popping out all over the place, and wooden post-teen actors dying in horrific, entertaining ways.

| Original Score: B | Jul 11, 2020

Among this cast of unluckies, there is no future Jamie Lee Curtis. But you do take the film home with you -- to all your own toys -- and that's what decent horror is supposed to do.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 7, 2019

Final Destination 5 has its moments, but it could have been a better movie without being more expensive to make.

| Original Score: B- | Feb 9, 2019

Final Destination 5 won't be known for any stellar performances, but first-time feature director Steven Qualye can rest assured he scared the daylights out his audiences.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 8, 2017

The opening credits sequence is a work of mad genius. And then, unfortunately, the movie starts.

| Aug 26, 2015

Though not a great horror film by any means, Final Destination 5 succeeds as a comedic splatter fest solely by sticking to Stephen King's old motto: 'If in doubt, gross 'em out.'

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 15, 2013

Final Destination 5 benefits from smart 3D, but even in 2D, the set-pieces will satisfy -- presenting some of the most outrageous kill sequences in franchise history.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 2, 2012

It's testament to the 2000 original that there's still so much mileage left in the 'death is coming for you' concept 11 years later.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 28, 2012

The deaths are just as gruesome and fun as ever, but the script's utter lack of originality drags things down quite a bit.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jan 29, 2012

I don't have a lot to say about Final Destination 5 save that, for the first time ever, I actually enjoyed sitting in a theatre watching one of these efforts from beginning to end.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 27, 2012

when you finally get to the end of the film, it works in the context of the series and definitely tops the previous installment

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 6, 2012

The performances are amateur (at best), the formula is predictable, and there's nothing scary going on here.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 26, 2011

Does clever writing a horror movie make? I think it does. And if you do too, then set your GPS for 'Final Destination 5,' one of the best of the dark-humored, grisly components in the franchise about people meeting their demise in bizarre ways .

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 22, 2011

It's a neat, tidy, tightly wound little horror picture with a single-minded intent to startle you out of your seat while causing you to laugh immoderately.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 14, 2011

Not even a tacked on surprise ending can save this mess.

| Dec 12, 2011

we just like good-looking young people being killed off in inventive and gruesome ways! Death is a sick puppy . . . and so are we!

| Dec 9, 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.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 24, 2011

The end result is a better-than-average sequel that will surely thrill fans of the Final Destination movies, and it's ultimately difficult to recall a horror franchise that has fared as well (and remained as entertaining) as this.

| Nov 17, 2011