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Final Destination (2000)

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Average Rating: 4.7/10
Reviews Counted: 93
Fresh: 31 | Rotten: 62

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.

Average Rating: 4.6/10
Critic Reviews: 26
Fresh: 10 | Rotten: 16

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.

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In this teenage horror film, a young man avoids the hand of death, only to find that he can't get away from it so easily. On the way to Paris with his high-school French club, Alex Browning (Devon Sawa) has a vivid premonition of the plane crashing and killing all its passengers. After Alex and some other passengers demand to be let off the flight, his premonition turns out to be true, and the jet explodes during takeoff. While the FBI is convinced that Alex was involved in some kind of foul

R, 1 hr. 38 min.

Mystery & Suspense, Horror

Directed By: James Wong (IV) , James Wong

Written By: Glen Morgan, James Wong, Jeffrey Reddick

In Theaters: Mar 17, 2000 Wide

On DVD: Sep 26, 2000

New Line Cinema

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Cast

Devon Sawa
Alex Browning
Amanda Detmer
Terry Chaney
Chad E. Donella
Tod Waggner
Ali Larter
Clear Rivers
Daniel Roebuck
Agent Weine
Kristen Cloke
Valerie Lewton
Seann William Scott
Billy Hitchcock
Kerr Smith
Carter Horton
Roger Guenveur Smith
Agent Schreck
Tony Todd
Bludworth
Larry Gilman
Mr. Waggner
P. Lynn Johnson
Mrs. Waggner
Robert Wisden
Ken Browning
Mark Holden
Co-pilot
Randy Stone
Flight Attendant
Barbara Tyson
Barbara Browning
Fred Keating
Howard Seigel
Brendan Fehr
George Waggner
Peter Atherton
Student Singer
Christine Chatelain
Blake Dreyer
Guy Fauchon
Hare Krishna
Lisa Marie Caruk
Christa Marsh
John Hainsworth
Minister
Marrett Green
TV News Anchor
Forbes Angus
Larry Murnau
Kristina Matistic
Reporter
Nicole Robert
Ticket Clerk
Chad Donella
James Wong

Critic Reviews for Final Destination

All Critics (100) | Top Critics (26) | Fresh (34) | Rotten (63) | DVD (28)

Generates a respectable amount of suspense and takes a few unexpected turns while covering familiar territory.

March 27, 2009 Full Review Source: Variety

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Joe Leydon

Variety

Top Critic

Pure garbage.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Detroit News

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Tom Long

Detroit News

Top Critic

Any movie clever enough to make the late John Denver a prophet of doom is OK in my book.

January 1, 2000 Comment

Roger Moore

Orlando Sentinel

Top Critic

An original shocker that keeps the tension going.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Top Critic

The writing by Wong, Glen Morgan and Jeffrey Reddick meets the low standards of a mediocre TV movie.

January 1, 2000 Comment

Barbara Shulgasser

Chicago Tribune

Top Critic

Smarter and more original than most [Dead Teenager Movies].

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Top Critic

Teens fear the reaper in this so-so thriller.

January 1, 2011 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media

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Afsheen Nomai

Common Sense Media

Becomes little more than a typical--if highly atmospheric--slasher film, complete with the cheesy dialogue and gimmicky conclusion.

January 3, 2010 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com

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Michael Dequina

TheMovieReport.com

...an innovative (and unexpectedly influential) exercise in horror.

September 29, 2009 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews

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David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

It's those long stretches of tedium in between the thrills and the laughs that keep it out of the big-league horror-comedy ballpark. (Blu-ray Edition)

April 25, 2009 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis

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John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

...glib, well produced, and reasonably well acted, adding up to slick pop drivel.

April 25, 2009 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis

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John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

About as subtle as an amplified death rattle--only not quite as fun to listen to.

September 16, 2007 Full Review Source: Bangor Daily News (Maine)

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Christopher Smith

Bangor Daily News (Maine)

This portentous chiller is a nasty piece of work.

January 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out

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Time Out

Tedious and derivative, it will soon be long forgotten.

February 17, 2005 Full Review Source: Cinemania

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Dan Jardine

Cinemania

A grossly underrated horror film with an intriguing premise and foreboding atmosphere.

February 6, 2003 Full Review Source: Radio Free Entertainment

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Andrew Manning

Radio Free Entertainment

"Hamhanded teen-philosophy stuff about fate and death's design and living forever and nobody controls my destiny."

January 31, 2003 Full Review Source: Flick Filosopher

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MaryAnn Johanson

Flick Filosopher

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If Death had a personality ... what kind of personality would that be? The first of the series makes a strong start with the proposition that the Reaper might be a poetic yet meticulous workman, an artist, bound to see a job through no matter what. A guilty pleasure of mine.

July 12, 2007

moon rivers

Super Reviewer

Great idea for a film, but the cast executed their roles poorly. I remember thinking this movie was thrilling and eerie when I was 11 at the time of release, but being older now and watching.....it's just kinda cheesy.

September 26, 2011

Eric Alvarez

Super Reviewer

Final Destination Quotes

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1. Bludworth: There are No Accidents. No Coincidences. No Escapes. YOU CAN"T CHEAT DEATH.
– Submitted by April B (14 days ago)
1. Student Singer: You my friend here's to you my friend.
– Submitted by Peter A (4 months ago)
1. Tod Waggner: We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast. But when we say this, we imagine that the hour is placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun, or that death could arrive this same afternoon - this afternoon which is so certain, and which has every hour filled in advance.
– Submitted by Kerwin M (5 months ago)
1. Carter Horton: As far as I know, this shit can circle around and get us all again. But for right now, I'm the safest fucker in the world, because you're still NEXT.
– Submitted by Kerwin M (5 months ago)
1. Billy Hitchcock: There they go, here we stay. [as he watches the plane take off and then explode]
– Submitted by Alyssa B (7 months ago)

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