Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reported 35% of critics gave the film positive write-ups based on 95 reviews, with an average rating of 4.78/10. 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". On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 36 out of 100 based on reviews from 28 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable 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". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B−" on an A+ to F scale.