History Film / FinalDestination4

** [[Spoiler:Nick,Lori and Janet VS a truck. The truck wins.]]

* PlotHole: In the premonition, the cowboy's death comes before Hunt and Janet were crushed by debris. However, in the "real world", the audience only learns that he's still alive ''after'' Hunt has already been killed, and after Lori and George had saved Janet from near-certain death in the car wash. Apparently, Death wasn't too strict about the order in which people died this time.
** It could be possible that Janet survived slightly longer due to falling rubble not always being an instant death, and she died in the same explosion that killed George and Lori

* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: At least half the deaths from the film were spoiled in the commercials. Subverted with [[spoiler:Janet]], whom we all thought was going to get her face ripped off in the car wash.

* BrooklynRage: For being set, again, in Pennsylvania, this is the tamest use of this trope in the franchise. Most of the characters argue and fight as though they're from the Midwest. The vicious racist acts more like a Southerner than a Northerner. The only exception is the mechanic who lost his wife, although his grumpiness is justified. Also the security guard has New York rage.

* DarkerAndEdgier: [[spoiler: in the ending they actually all die, and it's not implied, although the credits turn the characters into skeletons and we don't see them actually die as humans, hence cutting out some of the graphic violence a bit]]. But like the "Final Destination" sequels, the over-the-topness becomes outright silly and implausible, making this movie seem silly and unintentionally comical by today's standards.

* BrooklynRage: For being set, again, in Pennsylvania, this is the tamest use of this trope in the franchise. Most of the characters argue and fight as though they're from the Midwest. Even the vicious racist acts more like a Southerner than a Northerner. The only exception is the mechanic who lost his wife, although his grumpiness is justified. Also the security guard has New York rage.

* SpecialEffectsFailure: Some of the effects here somehow manage to look worse than past films.
** In his premonition, Nick is thrown backward by an explosion and impaled on a pipe. The extent of his injuries include a CG bloodstain that appears on his shirt in a fade transition and a tiny trickle of BloodFromTheMouth. It's also very obvious the actor is simply standing in front of a green screen.

* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The pool death was probably based on [[http://wikibin.org/articles/death-of-abigail-taylor-5.html Abigail Taylor]], though she didn't die from the event itself.

* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The pool death was probably based on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Abigail_Taylor Abigail Taylor]], though she didn't die from the event itself.

* DeathByRacism: The ''first'' victim is a redneck who has NO compunctions whatsoever about calling African Americans "the N-word". ([[LampshadeHanging His character is actually listed as "Racist" in the end-credits.]]) He is given a spectacularly hilarious and humiliating end when he tried to burn a cross [[TheKlan KKK-style]] in front of the black lead's house; [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments his tow truck, dragging his burning and screaming carcass,]] twists the knife by [[{{Irony}} playing War's anti-racism tract "Why Can't We Be Friends?" on the radio]] before it spectacularly explodes. The kicker? Dragging a black man from a car is a known (if uncommon) method of lynching, as seen with the murder of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Byrd_Jr James Byrd, Jr.]] In other words, [[DeathByIrony the guy got lynched]].

* KillEmAll: [[spoiler: The film outright confirms a theory that has been long postulated about the series: Death is the one who gave the protagonists the premonitions. And no one can truly escape Death's List. Ever.]]

* BloodFromTheMouth: [[spoiler:Loris']] death is in a way caused by this, her leg getting crushed by escalator gears somehow causes her to spit up a large amount of blood onto her arm which the main character is holding on to as he slips more and more of her body is dragged in eventually she either dies or passes out from the trauma and falls in getting mulched into mince.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Although Nick, Lori, and Janet think they manage to escape death when Nick stops the cinema disaster from happening, it turns out that Death is the one who gave Nick the premonitions. In other words, Death is just playing with them, and in the epilogue, he has had enough fun. Cue the truck crashing through the cafe.]]

* InfantImmortality: Played straight and subverted. [[spoiler:One of the victims is a mother of two and her kids are seen escaping the accident at the start while she gets separated and killed off. Unfortunately, there were a bunch of other children in the stadium that ''didn't'' get out, as seen in the memorial scene.]]

* BloodyHilarious: See DeathByRacism.

* SeriesFauxnale: This was supposed to be the last film of the series, as in '''''The''''' ''Final Destination'', but it became highest grossing film in the series, so [[Film/FinalDestination5 another film]] was produced. [[spoiler:However, in terms of in-universe chronology, ''The Final Destination'' is technically the latest set of events as ''Final Destination 5'' reveals itself to be a prequel to [[Film/FinalDestination1 the first film.]]]]

* WhamLine: [[spoiler: Nick: "What if we didn't change anything, what if us being here, right now,...''was the plan from the beginning''"]]

''Final Destination 4'', also known as ''The Final Destination'', is the fourth film in the ''Film/FinalDestination'' series, released in 2009.

* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The pool death in was probably based on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Abigail_Taylor Abigail Taylor]], though she didn't die from the event itself.

* ContinuityNod: The opening sequence depicts the various deaths from the previous three films from the perspective of an x-ray camera.

* DeathByRacism: The ''first'' victim is a redneck who has NO compunctions whatsoever about calling African Americans "the N-word". ([[LampshadeHanging His character is actually listed as "Racist" in the end-credits.]]) He is given a spectacularly hilarious and humiliating end when he tried to burn a cross [[TheKlan KKK-style]] in front of the black lead's house; [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments his tow truck, dragging his burning and screaming carcass,]] twists the knife by [[{{Irony}} playing War's anti-racism tract "Why Can't We Be Friends?" on the radio]] before it spectacularly explodes.
** The kicker? Dragging a black man from a car is a known (if uncommon) method of lynching, as seen with the murder of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Byrd_Jr James Byrd, Jr.]] In other words, [[DeathByIrony the guy got lynched]].

* CaliforniaDoubling: The film takes place in the town of [=McKinley=], which was canonically stated in the last film to be in UsefulNotes/{{Pennsylvania}}. However, the film was shot in UsefulNotes/NewOrleans, and it's obvious in the scene set at the country club swimming pool, where they don't even try to hide the palm trees. The ending also prominently features an [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(Orlando) Orlando LYNX bus]] (reshoots having been done at Ride/UniversalStudios Orlando).