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 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

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

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

FD5 is a perfect example of what 3D ultimately does best, which is to make you squirm, shudder and jump in your seat. Enjoy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 14, 2011

Quale knows exactly how to toy with the expectations of his victims (and his viewers) before bringing down the fatal blow from an angle that no-one quite saw coming.What's more, he is not afraid to embrace 3D for the tawdry gimmick that it is

Full Review | Aug 27, 2011

The result is more than usually frightening.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 26, 2011

No surprises, but plenty of laughs and gasps.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 26, 2011

Fans of this franchise know precisely what to expect, and the film delivers it with wit and flair.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 25, 2011

There's blackly witty ingenuity here without too much misanthropic sadism, and a genuinely neat chronological twist that I didn't see coming, despite one conspicuous clue.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 25, 2011

It sticks to gimmicky scenes in which twentysomethings are dispatched in ingenious ways, but first-time director Steven Quayle delivers cheap fun that will keep fans happy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 24, 2011

Time for death to call in sick?

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 24, 2011

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

| Aug 22, 2011

Death is never final so long as the box office and foreign market sales remain relatively strong, thus we have yet another devastation destination in time for the end-of-summer theatrical doldrums.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 19, 2011

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

| Original Score: C+ | Aug 12, 2011

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.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 12, 2011

Under the direction of James Cameron protegé 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.

| Original Score: B | Aug 12, 2011

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...

| Aug 12, 2011

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

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 12, 2011

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

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 12, 2011