 The film received mixed reviews from critics . Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported 34 % of critics gave the film positive write @-@ ups based on 101 reviews , with an average rating of 4 @.@ 7 / 10 . The site 's consensus of opinion is that " despite a panel of X @-@ Files alums at the helm and a promising premise , flighty performances and poor execution keep Final Destination from ever taking off " . At Metacritic , which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics , the film holds a mixed / average score of 36 based on 28 reviews . On June 14 , 2010 , Nick Hyman of Metacritic included Final Destination in the website 's editorial 15 Movies the Critics Got Wrong , noting that " the elaborate suspense / action set pieces from the first two films are more impressive than most " . 
