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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.

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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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Average Rating: 3.4/5
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Movie Info

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

Sep 26, 2000

New Line Cinema

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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 | Comment
Variety
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Pure garbage.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Detroit News | Comments (2)
Detroit News
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Any movie clever enough to make the late John Denver a prophet of doom is OK in my book.

January 1, 2000 Comment
Orlando Sentinel
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An original shocker that keeps the tension going.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Comment
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Stupid, silly and gory.

January 1, 2000 Comment
USA Today
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The writing by Wong, Glen Morgan and Jeffrey Reddick meets the low standards of a mediocre TV movie.

January 1, 2000 Comment
Chicago Tribune
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Teens fear the reaper in this so-so thriller.

January 1, 2011 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
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 | Comment
TheMovieReport.com

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

September 29, 2009 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | Comment
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 | Comment
Movie Metropolis

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

April 25, 2009 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment (1)
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) | Comment
Bangor Daily News (Maine)

This portentous chiller is a nasty piece of work.

January 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment

Tedious and derivative, it will soon be long forgotten.

February 17, 2005 Full Review Source: Cinemania | Comment

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

February 6, 2003 Full Review Source: Radio Free Entertainment | Comment (1)
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 | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Final Destination

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
moonrivers

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

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    1. Student Singer: You my friend here's to you my friend.
    – Submitted by Peter A (45 days 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 (50 days 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 (50 days ago)
    1. Billy Hitchcock: There they go, here we stay. [as he watches the plane take off and then explode]
    – Submitted by Alyssa B (3 months ago)
    1. Bludworth: [to Alex] I'll see you soon.
    – Submitted by John P (4 months ago)

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