Rating: 15

Dir: David R. Ellis

Starring: Bobby Campo, Shantel VanSanten

Despite luring back David R. Ellis, who directed Final Destination 2 (the best one), there's no escaping the fact this is the fourth entry in the death-by-design series and it suffers greatly from the law of diminishing returns. Or at least that's the case for people who see it in 2D.

The 3D version on the other hand is a thrill-park ride where you can almost feel the heat radiating off the charred corpses of the anonymous teen actors as they're dispatched in various inventive ways. Instead of a plane crash or roller-coaster disaster, this time the carnage happens at a race track. Hero Nick experiences a prophetic vision of a huge crash and saves his friends only to find them picked off later one by one by Death in the order they should have died.

No, she's not been frozen in ice, it's just very wet outside.

Shot in RealD, the film suffers slightly from fast-paced editing during the opening race track massacre. This is where you're just getting used to your glasses so it's jarring when you have to work so hard to keep track of the cars and people whipping past you. 3D tends to work best in long, slow shots where you can drink everything in. Thankfully Ellis calms down a bit after the main titles and 'executes' some excellent death scenes, specifically designed for the 3D format.

We inevitably get the 'bloke impaled on a spike' shot with said spike thrust at our faces but there are also scenes filmed underwater with bubbles swarming around us and numerous fires that literally explode off the screen, though often a simple tracking shot through grass on a lawn works the best in 3D. There are 11 death scenes - the most in any Final Destination film - and Ellis wastes no time on dull things like story or character development when he can be smooshing a man through a barbed wire fence like play-dough, or ogling the bouncing breasts of a naked girl. In 3D, people.