Final Destination 4

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Movie
German title Final Destination 4
Original title The final destination
Final Destination 4 Logo.png
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2009
length 78 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director David R. Ellis
script Eric Bress
Glen Morgan
production Richard Brener
Walter Hamada
music Brian Tyler
camera Glen MacPherson
cut Mark Stevens
occupation
synchronization
chronology

←  Predecessor
Final Destination 3

Successor  →
Final Destination 5

Final Destination 4 (Original Title: The Final Destination ) is an American horror film by David R. Ellis from 2009 and after Final Destination 3 the fourth part of the film series.

The basic theme of the final destination series is outwitting fate. Visions of individual affected persons enable them to foresee the future. In this way, the death of different people is always prevented at first, but since the death was predetermined, death takes all of the victims one after the other.

action

During a car race , Nick has a terrible vision in which one of the cars crashes into the stands and many spectators die. Nick immediately tries to protect the audience from the danger, but only a few people leave the stadium with him . As soon as they have left the stadium, the foreseen disaster happens. The only survivors are Nick, his girlfriend Lori, her girlfriend Janet and her boyfriend Hunt, the security guard George Lanter, the racist Carter, who was prevented by the security guard from rescuing his wife from the burning stadium, Samantha with her two sons and the Auto mechanic Andy. Andy's friend Nadia, who was also able to save herself, is smashed by a flying car tire in front of the stadium.

Carter has decided to kill the security guard in revenge and goes to his house at night. Meanwhile, Nick has a strange dream. When trying to put up a Ku Klux Klan cross, the racist ultimately burns himself due to a chain of unfavorable events. Nick realizes the next day that he foresaw the reality in his dream.

Samantha, who survived the accident together with her two sons, goes to the hairdresser. Although there are several life-threatening situations in the hairdressing salon, they do not claim any sacrifice. It is only when the mother leaves the salon that a lawnmower hurls a stone that her two boys had previously thrown into a meadow and penetrates her head through her eye, which leads to her death. Once again Nick realizes that he foresaw this.

Together with his girlfriend and George Lanter, the stadium security guard, Nick draws up a list of those who actually would have perished, but who warned them not to. Andy is next on the list, but his rescue fails because, despite Nick's warning, he does not want to leave the premises of his company. Shortly thereafter, Andy's body is squeezed through an iron fence by a flying gas cylinder, against which he was pushed by a rolling car.

Next up is Janet and her boyfriend Hunt. When Nick has a new vision in which water occurs, he tries to save his girlfriend and George the supposedly next victims. While Janet succeeds in rescuing Janet from a flooded car in a car wash, Hunt dies at the bottom of a swimming pool, where his digestive organs are sucked out through a suction tube. He didn't receive the warning Nick sent him because his cell phone was rendered inoperable by a child with a water pistol.

The remaining survivors are now sure that death will take them too. However, when George Lanter fails to commit suicide several times, they believe that their intervention has outwitted death.

However, Nick has a new vision and realizes that there is still one seriously injured survivor of the racing accident and that he is the immediate next victim. He and George go straight to the hospital; Both come too late, however: In the treatment room above the survivor's room, a hospital employee leaves the tap open during therapy, which overflows a bathtub and falls together with the ceiling on the survivor of the car crash.

Nick and George quickly leave the hospital and want to see Nick's girlfriend. However, a new vision immediately sets in: George is run over by an ambulance. In the cinema where Lori and Janet are, there is a fire on a construction site involving highly flammable and self-igniting chemicals. When the friends are already sitting in the cinema, Lori notices signs that clearly point to the disaster at the racetrack ("Down there ', asshole"; a dark-skinned employee of the cinema asks a young man to take his feet off the seat in front of him, A ringing mobile phone sounds a melody that was whistled in the stadium shortly before the crash). Nick can still reach the cinema and save his girlfriend, but Janet dies in an explosion. On the run from the flames, however, Nick's girlfriend is crushed on a broken escalator.

However, all of this was only part of the vision, and Nick is still in front of the hospital. Before he can grasp the vision, however, George is run over. Nick immediately goes to the cinema, but not to save his girlfriend, but to put out the fire, which he succeeds despite some difficulties, so that there is no catastrophe and the remaining three protagonists initially survive.

Some time later, Nick, Lori and Janet are in a café and are happy about their supposed "victory" over death. But when Nick recognizes the signs that a new danger is looming, it is already too late: A truck dodges scaffolding that has fallen into the street and races into the café, and death takes all three at once.

synchronization

The German dubbing was done by Film- & Fernseh-Synchron GmbH in Munich . The dialogue script and direction are from Jan Odle .

actor role Voice actor
Bobby Campo Nick O'Bannon Julian Manuel
Shantel VanSanten Lori Milligan Tatiana Pokorny
Nick Zano Hunt Wynorski Torben Liebrecht
Haley Webb Janet Cunningham Annina Braunmiller
Mykelti Williamson George Lanter Torsten Münchow
Krista Allen Samantha Lane Claudia Lössl
Andrew Fiscella Andy Kewzer Oliver Mink
Justin Welborn Carter Daniels Philipp Brammer
Stephanie Honoré Nadia Monroy Ilena Gwisdalla
Jackson Walker Jonathan Groves Pascal Breuer
Tina Parker Cheyenne Veronika Neugebauer
Cecile Monteyne Dee dee Gabrielle Pietermann

Circumstances of death

  • After the group has left the racetrack, Nadia is beheaded by a car tire that is thrown out of the racetrack.
  • Carter, who wants to kill George, burns after his car drives off on its own and a chain hanging on the car pulls him away. Due to the entanglement of the unfortunate circumstances, the chain catches fire, and so does himself. An explosion of the car ensues.
  • Samantha, mother of two, is about to leave a hair salon and is killed by a stone blown up by a lawnmower that pierces her skull through her right eye.
  • Andy is pressed into an iron fence by an approaching gas cylinder, causing his chest to be pressed into the fence and falling down with dice.
  • In a swimming pool, the suction mode is accidentally switched on, so that the suction tube develops an immense suction force on the pool floor. Hunt is pulled to the ground and stuck on the pipe until it rips out his digestive organs and thus dies.
  • Jonathan Groves, the "cowboy", is crushed by a bathtub that falls through the ceiling.
  • George is run over by an ambulance.
  • Nick, Lori and Janet die at the end of the film from a truck racing into the cafe where they are sitting. The truck smashes through the window and Janet is caught by a wheel that crushes her chest. Lori is pushed against a pillar by the vehicle, breaking her neck, which then separates her head from her body. Nick is thrown against a wall and spits out a gush of blood. When he falls to the ground, some teeth fly out of his mouth. One of them flies towards the audience and marks the end of the film by darkening the picture. These scenes are designed as a kind of X-ray image and thus make the damage to the bodies clear.

criticism

The film received mostly negative reviews, earning a 29% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 95 reviews. At Metacritic one could Metascore of 30, based on 14 reviews, can be achieved.

background

The film was shot in high definition 3D and was released in German cinemas on September 3, 2009. After the first trailer appeared in June, another excerpt from the film followed on August 18, 2009. Warner Bros. Pictures Germany is giving the fourth part of the series on over 100 canvases in 3-D.

Connections to the other parts

As is so often the case in the Final Destination films, there are some “ running gag ” -like connections to the previous parts:

  • In the opening credits you can see x-rays of the accidents from all previous parts.
  • The song that is heard before individual actors die is in this part of Dixie Land .
  • The group sits in section 180 during the race. The bus at the end also bears route number 180 (flight number from the first part, this number always plays a central role in the other parts as well).
  • The circuit is called "McKinley Speedway". Mc Kinley is the name of the school and one of the victims from the third part.
  • The homeless man's dog is named Browning. This is the name of the main character from the first part.
  • One poster shows "Clear Rivers Water" printed on it. Clear Rivers is a main character from the first two parts.
  • The drink the woman's children drink is the same as the drink Ashley and Ashlyn drink in the solarium in the third part.
  • The beer brand "Hice Pale Ale", which Carter Daniels drinks, also appears in the other parts of the range.
  • The scene in which George Lanter is suddenly run over by an ambulance is a direct quote from the first part, where the same thing happens with a bus (Terry Chaney talks about déjà-vus shortly beforehand ).
  • When Samantha Lane is hit by the stone in the eye, it is reminiscent of the accident from Final Destination 2 , where a fire escape Evan Lewis pierced the head (through the eye).
  • When Nick is nailed to his arm at the end of the film, the scene is reminiscent of the third part in the series, when Erin Ulmer is killed by a nail gun . In Nick's vision, Janet is also caught by nails being thrown away by the explosion.
  • The death of the auto mechanic, who is dismembered by the fence, is vaguely reminiscent of that of Rory Peters, whose body is divided in the second part by a flying barbed wire fence.
  • The sponsor of the car that caused the accident is called: Bill Wall Leather, this is the print of the T-shirt worn by Evan Lewis from Final Destination 2, which is pierced by the ladder.
  • In the department store Lori is bumped in the foot by a remote-controlled car. This car is the same as the one that rolled over during the race and flew into the crowd.
  • In the cinema, incidents similar to those on the racetrack at the beginning of the film happen, so Lori notices that someone, like on the racetrack, shouts: "Get down there you asshole" and a person asked by a cinema employee to remove the feet of him To take cushion.
  • A ventilation device is transported over the store, whereupon Janet tells Lori that “someone could get killed”. In the alternative ending, the two of them die from the same device, because its chain breaks and crushes them.
  • In the alternative ending, Nick jumps out of the window with a gas bottle. He ends up on the police car with the number 180, which then explodes.
  • In the end, just before Nick meets Lori and Janet in a café, a bus with the number 180 drives by on his roof.
  • The last scene in the café is reminiscent of the last scene from the first part when the main character realizes that everything was planned by then.
  • The large water pipe that hits the car in the car wash is the same shape as the metal pipe of the roller coaster that Wendy sees wobbling shortly after entering.

History of origin

The creation of Final Destination 4 began in November 2007 when David R. Ellis signed the contract for the fourth part of the horror series with New Line Cinema . He committed to directing and developing the film. On November 20, 2007, the studio announced that it was planning the film in 3D. The co-writer of Final Destination 2 , Eric Bress , has also been hired as a screenwriter. The three protagonists, Shantel VanSanten , Bobby Campo and Haley Webb , were announced in February 2008. The supporting roles were filled with Nick Zano , Krista Allen and Andrew Fiscella , among others . Filming began in New Orleans in February 2008 . A total of 43 million US dollars were available for production. The opening sequence of the film was the end of May in Irvington ( Alabama ) on the Mobile International Speedway rotated. In advance, extras were searched for on the Internet.

continuation

The sequel Final Destination 5 was released in German cinemas on August 25, 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Final Destination 4 . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2009 (PDF; test number: 119 340 V).
  2. ↑ a b German synchronous card index | Movies | Final Destination 4. Accessed August 10, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Final Destination 4 at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
  4. ↑ Final Destination 4 at Metacritic (English)
  5. ↑ Final Destination 4 is coming and we have a first trailer ( memento of the original from July 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.videoregister.de
  6. ^ First Clip From The Final Destination
  7. ↑ Final Destination 4 in over 100 cinemas in 3D. In: Berlinista. Archived from the original on October 8, 2014 ; accessed on September 30, 2018 .
  8. ↑ "Final Destination 4" comes in 3D. In: Zelluloid.de. Archived from the original on February 3, 2018 ; accessed on September 30, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Tatiana Siegel: 'Final Destination 4' sets cast. In: Variety . February 21, 2008, archived from the original on February 5, 2013 ; accessed on September 30, 2018 (English).
  10. ↑ Start of shooting at Final Destination 4 , accessed on May 1, 2008
  11. ↑ Final Destination 4 - actors wanted! , accessed May 1, 2008