YMMV / Final Destination 4

• Awesome Music: A majority of fans love the opening song, especially when it's intercut with the X-Ray kills from the previous movies.
• Crosses the Line Twice: Racist trying to burn a Cross on a black man's front lawn? Not funny. Racist's plan getting ruined when "Why Can't We Be Friends?" starts playing in his truck? Funny. Racist getting dragged down the street by his truck while he's on fire and while the same song is still playing in his truck? Hysterical.
• Fanon Discontinuity:Not universal, but the theater scene made a good climax, especially for anyone fed up with all the unhappy endings, while the skeletal vision deaths at the ending provide for a somewhat questionable Call-Back.
• Fan-Preferred Cut Content: People aware of the deleted scene where Janet challenges Death by walking across a road with her eyes closed are almost unanimous in agreeing that it should have been kept in. This is due to the movie's short run-time and the emotional nature of the scene in a movie that's criticized for being Denser and Wackier.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Naming this movie The Final Destination sounded like a presumptuous attempt at designating it as the last movie, when these franchises never seem to do that. With The Reveal that the next movie is a Stealth Prequel, this is chronologically true.
  • The X-Ray death scenes at the beginning and end of the movie later received a Stealth Sequel in another franchise owned by Warner Bros. two years after this film was made.
• Narm:
  • The opening disaster is a ridiculous mess that gives physics the middle finger. First, a race car drives over a screwdriver, the tire pops, and then the car starts flipping and spiraling out of control. This sends tires flying into the stands hard enough to decapitate someone^note rogue tires killing people on impact has happened at real races, it's the head exploding like play dough that's ridiculous, followed by cars crashing into each-other and exploding, sending fiery debris and wreckage into the stands. Apparently the drivers don't bother trying to hit the brakes. As if that's not enough, the force of the explosions and impacts causes the stadium to start falling apart and crushing patrons.
  • The random dolphin sound effect a car makes on the track.
  • The car wash almost-death can come across as ridiculous if you know that people have ridden through car washes on the tops of cars with no ill effects. MythBusters proved you don't even need to hold on to the car. Hell, even Jackass had someone riding the hood years before this, and only coming off colder for his troubles.
  • The Escalator death. It's not even shocking. It just comes off as cartoonishly hilarious.
  • The chain link fence death has drawn many comparisons to Happy Tree Friends for its sheer ludicrousness.^note Specifically, the episode Ski Ya, Wouldn't Wanna Be Ya, in which Flaky dies in a very similar manner.
  • Samantha's death in the premonition is ruined when the car engine that crushes her chest when she's on the ground makes the sound that you'd hear when an anvil dropped on someone's head in a Looney Tunes cartoon. Also, her actual death, where a rock is propelled from a lawn mower and actually goes right through her eye, instead of simply knocking her to the ground and getting a black eye. Not at all helped by her extremely corny line of "I've got my eye on you two."
  • Nadia's death is ruined when they cut to the body: an obvious dummy that someone surrounded with shredded pork and a fake wig.
  • "Racist" Carter Daniels as a whole. The writers really went out of their way to make him as blatantly racist as possible, and the whole thing just reeks of Strawman Political. His first scene shows that he has swastika and SS tattoos, then he flat out calls George a racial slur, and the moment that leads to his death? He decides to burn a cross on George's lawn.
  • Hunt's death scene is considerably less innovative and cool when you remember that the exact same scenario was part of a Chuck Palahniuk novel.
• Nightmare Retardant: The fourth movie had the status of having basically every death involve either over the top Gorn or just kind of dumb. This led to some thinking the deaths had turned from "Oh god that could happen to me." to "Haha, look at that dumb guy's guts."
• Sequelitis: While the third film's worst sin is being kind of bland, fans tend to have a lot more vitriol towards this film. The fifth film was considered a return to form, but the negative reception of this film was still felt and thus affected the box office.
• Signature Scene: Interestingly, a deleted Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene occasionally included in TV airings manages to be the scene that some fans most associate with the movie. The scene takes place after Janet's near-death experience and shows her walking across a street with her eyes closed, testing to see if Death is still after her, and wanting to get it over with quickly if he is. This is followed by a touching moment of relief after she makes it across the road. There's a sense of intensity, but also depth and frailty that really impresses a lot of people who see the scene.
• Special Effects Failure: Pretty much every death. Why? BECAUSE DEATH SAVED THE BEST FOR 3D
• Unpopular Popular Character: Hunt is a self-absorbed douche who, needless to say, isn't particularly loved in-universe (even by his own friends). All that said, he's one of the best sources of comic relief and is consistently hilarious, in addition to being played by one of the better actors, which has left him as something of an Ensemble Dark Horse. Having arguably one of the most creative and discomforting death scenes in the entire franchise also helps.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: The introduction is an X-ray montage of various kills throughout the previous movies and the end are genuinely cool-looking. Too bad the visuals of the rest of the movie aren't anywhere close to that level.

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