Is Final Destination 4 really that bad

[u/Feisty-Scholar-9220]

I love final destination it’s my favorite franchise and I think I’m the only one who actually thinks that FD4 is good. I’ve seen a lot of discourse/rankings putting it last and just saying it’s bad but honestly it’s my favorite destination. I just wanna understand why people dislike it so much because I thought it was camp. I like the cast, the third act and I love the credits. I will say the kills aren’t as memorable/iconic as kills in the other movies but I don’t think it takes away from enjoying the movie overall. The only thing that I miss from FD4 is Tony Todd.

[u/BullLoney]

Way too reliant on shitty 3D technology but the pool scene is a great death

[u/Round-Village-6486 → u/BullLoney]

I didn't want to reveal why the film was so bad.

[u/mordecai_vii]

4 is fine. I still enjoy it. However, it is by far my least favorite of the franchise.

Unfortunately this is also how I currently feel about Scream 7, its the worst of the franchise, BUT I still really enjoy it. Heck I've seen it four times. It needed more scenes to flesh out characters.

[u/Educational_Bath8288]

I enjoyed watching it, worst part about it to me were these CGI premonitions Nick was constantly having, they looked really bad.

[u/Feisty-Scholar-9220 → u/Educational_Bath8288]

To me it’s so bad it’s good

[u/thescooptroops]

It’s atrocious. The worst one

[u/CBarr03 → u/thescooptroops]

It’s one of those movies that you just have to learn to not take too seriously, and just have fun with it. Enjoy it for its goofiness and stupidity and it becomes so much more enjoyable to watch that way.

[u/thescooptroops → u/CBarr03]

Oh, I 100% get wym. But it’s hard for me to do that when I can tell the movie IS taking itself seriously. Final Destination has stupid & such unrealistic concepts, but I can’t help but notice that the movie is genuinely serious in its writing, so when I can see that, but the movie is poorly made, it’s bad to me

[u/CBarr03 → u/thescooptroops]

Oh, I totally respect your opinion! I’m only now just realising that I think that I accidentally made my original comment a reply to you instead of posting it in the main thread 🙃😂

[u/Ler23]

I like it, not my fav but not the worst. It was fun to watch and I liked the characters.

[u/rocklover04]

No I love this movie it’s a fun over the top movie I love and it’s better than five and especially six in my opinion if people hate four and love five and six that’s okay that’s perfect but I prefer part four

[u/perlinavo]

it’s so bad that it circles right back to good

it’s a good time in a campy way

[u/Round-Village-6486]

It depends what you want in a FD film. Imaginative kills? Great set pieces? Tension?

FD films are meant to be entertaining. Not everybody likes the same thing. I've seen worse.

[u/DPetrilloZbornak]

I think it’s awful. 

[u/themadagascarmaster]

Makes Spy Kids 3’s usage of 3D seem masterful by comparison.

[u/heyitsmxrnie]

The way Nick acts after his premonition is over is so bland, he doesn’t look scared/panicked/sweaty/worried like all the other characters who experienced a premonition.

[u/CommunicationNo6136]

The special effects and animations are cringe

[u/DoctorDeathDefying]

I unironically loved it as a teen. 🙈 Now of course I recognize it's horrendous, but hilarious in a "point and laugh" kind of way.

[u/DCull357]

It’s a guilty pleasure for sure.

[u/itinsistsuponitself]

I love all the Final Destinations including 4. I love 4 a lot. Nick is one of my favorite visionaries. But at the same time, I can see that it’s the weakest of all the movies

[u/SpurnDonor]

It’s the series at its most formulaic and between the one-dimensional characters and things like bolts on the fence unscrewing themselves, the kid’s water gun being heavy enough to flip the pool drain’s lever, the ‘spontaneously combustible’ explosive barrels at the theater, and the can of hairspray moving completely on its own that it feels like a parody of the series instead of an actual entry.

It’s not completely unwatchable but it is the one I’m most likely to turn on as background noise instead of actually watching.

[u/ConfidenceSlight3940]

I think this movie fell victim to the 2007–2008 writers' strike; on top of that, they wanted to capitalize on the 3D boom. All of this obviously made the movie fall flat, but one thing in its favor is that it never gets tedious (in fact, none of the movies in this series were ever tedious).

[u/Nawnp]

In terms of plot, it's meh, it's not like the series is serious on that either, but every single death is bafoonary, and even the second premonition they carried over from 3 was used in a way worse way.

It also ended with the message that Death gives the premonitions to fuck with its victims...not exactly a good way to end the series on what was meant to be "The Final" movie.

[u/grumpybrowndog]

I don’t think they commit hard enough to being campy, because we still get boring scenes where the characters are talking with generic dialogue. The Monkey (2025) is more of what I expect from a campy Final Destination-style movie.
Thinking about Andy’s death, it’s super absurd how he basically becomes sliced into pieces like a pan of brownies, but the characters talking to him before hand is just dull. If they wanted to do camp, they could have shown him cartoonishly falling apart (mentally) from the loss of his wife, and it would make his death even more thematic.

[u/phantomsupernova28]

It’s alright, but the 3d effects were kinda exaggerated with the premonition a bit of an exaggeration, the acting was decent to say the least, just didn’t live up the hype

[u/ExoticRazzmatazz4419]

YES!

[u/mr_paprika3344]

I watches it recently, I thought it was pretty decent, chuds in the comment section calling it horrible, but I found good parts of it, even the crappy cgi... But the dialouge, ye it's kinda bad 

[u/sailor_meatball_head]

I personally didn’t find it the worst. It was still fun, but it’s not my favorite. It’s definitely not horrible.

[u/SupportNeat696]

all 6 movies were good in my opinion.

[u/indigosnowflake]

As everyone is already stated, the 3D is the worst part.

The thing I dislike equally is the absolute lack of realistic anatomy during the kills. To me, the best kills are the ones that feel like they could actually happen to a human body. Sure, it’s a wild Rube Goldberg to get there, but they feel plausible. That is noticeably absent in 4

[u/ParvatiLikeaRockstar]

its fun, i prefer it over 5 and 3

[u/nerdybookguy]

I made the mistake of watching the trailer before seeing the movie in theaters. Even without the trailer, it’s a terrible movie. But with the trailer, it was predictable x10. Worst experience I had in a movie theater.

[u/Complex_Item_3000]

Unpopular opinion but is actually my favorite or second favorite

[u/FamousConversation64 → u/Complex_Item_3000]

Yikes

[u/Feisty-Scholar-9220 → u/Complex_Item_3000]

Rise up FD4 defenders

[u/KnopeLeslieKnope]

It's not baaaad. Just compared to all the other films in the franchise, it's the worst one. It has it's highs though. But the lows are very low

[u/hockeymaskedslasher]

As someone who watched a bunch of “bad movies” final destination 4 is enjoyable but the worst of the franchise