Every Final Destination Movie Ranked

Prior to 2025, Final Destination 5 was usually held up as the best in the series, but that narrative doesn't hold much water now. A fairer thing to say would be that it was the finest on a technical level, for director Steve Quale did a remarkable job here. 

The opening bridge-collapse premonition is quite brilliant and the various death scenes are suspense pieces that would make Alfred Hitchcock proud, with the gymnastics scene being arguably the single greatest Final Destination death to date. Furthermore, it successfully introduces a human killer into the mix, and the movie's superb twist ending - in which it turns out that it's actually a secret prequel - gives the story a sense of finality. 

Still, for all of the many things the movie does well, a great twist ending doesn't automatically make a movie a franchise high-point. A bit like the second film it does feel rushed at times and the characters are a mixed bag. 

On the one hand, Jacqueline MacInnes Wood's rocker chick steals many scenes, the characters played by David Koechner and the ever-delightful P.J. Byrne are two of Final Destination's most hilariously unlikable douchebags and human villain Peter Friedkin works well despite Miles Fisher's wooden performance. But on the other hand, the two leads (Nicolas D'Agosto and Emma Bell) are pretty dreary and the other characters are just sort-of there. 

To conclude, it's a very good one, but it's not the best and it never was.