The Final Destination is a 2009 3D supernatural-horror film written by Eric Bress and directed by David R. Ellis, both of whom also worked on Final Destination 2. Released on August 28, 2009, it is the fourth installment to the Final Destination film series, and the first of which to be shot in HD 3D.
Ten years after the explosion of Flight 180, nine years after the Pile-up on Route 23 and four years after the Devil's Flight rollar coaster accident, Nick O'Bannon (Bobby Campo) has a premonition in which multiple race cars crash at the McKinley Speedway killing his friends and causing the upper deck of the stands to collapse on him. Nick panics, persuading his girlfriend,Lori Milligan (Shantel VanSanten) their friends, Janet Cunningham (Haley Webb) and Hunt Wynorski (Nick Zano), security guard George Lanter (Mykelti Williamson), mechanic Andy Kewzer (Andrew Fiscella), mother Samantha Lane (Krista Allen), racist Carter Daniels (Justin Welborn), and Andy's girlfriend Nadia Monroy (Stephanie Honoré) to leave, escaping seconds before Nick's vision becomes a reality. Minutes later, Nadia gets decapitated by a wheel flying towards her.
Not long after a memorial for those who were lost, Carter attempts to put a burning cross on George's front lawn. He blames George for stopping him from going back into the stadium to save his wife, Cynthia (Lara Grice), but his plan backfires as he is set on fire, dragged down the street by his own tow truck and then blown up by the gas tanks in his car. The next day, Samantha is killed when a lawn mower rides over a rock thrown in its path by her sons which then shoots through her eye and comes out the other side of her head. When Nick and Lori hear of the deaths, they learn about the three previous disasters and realize that Death is back.
While Janet and Hunt refuse to believe, Nick convinces George and Lori to help him conquer Death's plan. Andy is killed by a carbon dioxide tank that pushes him into a sharp grid fence. Nick rushes to save Hunt at the pool, while Lori and George rush to save Janet. They succeed in saving Janet from a malfunctioning car wash. Nick, however, is too late; after diving in to retrieve his lucky coin, Hunt gets sucked down onto an exposed drain in the deep end of a pool, and drowns as his internal organs are sucked out by the pool filter.
George considers suicide but is unable to kill himself. This leads the survivors to believe that saving Janet has defeated Death. Nick decides to take Lori on a holiday, but Janet and Lori decide to go shopping and see a movie before they leave. In the mall and the theatre, Lori begins to see omens warning her that the danger is not over. Nick too realizes this, as there was another survivor, Jonathan Grove (Jackson Walker). Nick warns George and they go to the hospital where Jonathan is but Jonathan is crushed by an overfilled bathtub before they can get to him. Outside the hospital, George is hit by an ambulance, leaving it up to Nick to save the girls. Nick arrives and pulls Lori from the cinema just before it explodes, impaling Janet on the flying wreckage. Another explosion causes Lori to be ground up by an escalator motor. It is then revealed that the whole thing after the hospital incident was another premonition. Nick fails to save George in time, but does save Lori and Janet by extinguishing the fire that would have caused the explosion.
Two weeks later, the trio, thinking they have conquered Death's plan, celebrate in a cafe. Nick notices a loose leg on a scaffold outside the cafe and he tells a construction worker to fix it. Once inside, he drifts off into thought after seeing omens around him and realizes that his premonitions and signs, along with all the disasters and deaths that had occurred since the speedway incident, are red herrings from Death used to manipulate them into where and when it would really come for them. Just as Nick realizes this, the scaffold falls and in order to avoid it, a truck swerves, crashing through the cafe window crushing Janet, decapitating Lori, and causing Nick to fly into a wall smashing his skull. These last three deaths showed the x-rays of Janet, Lori, and Nick. Showing their bones, and Nick's teeth flying out of his skull, leaving no suriviors of the McKinley Speedway crash.
