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Final Destination (2000)

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Reviews Counted:84

Fresh:25

Rotten:59

Average Rating:4.6/10

Consensus: 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.

Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Synopsis: Death is coming and Alex Browning (DEVON SAWA) is blessed with the curse of knowing when, how and where the grim reaper will strike. Alex's bone-chilling gift reveals itself just as the teenager... Death is coming and Alex Browning (DEVON SAWA) is blessed with the curse of knowing when, how and where the grim reaper will strike.

Alex's bone-chilling gift reveals itself just as the teenager embarks on a trip to Paris with his high school French class. In the plane's cabin, buckled-in and ready for take-off, Alex experiences his first powerful premonition. He sees the plane explode in a fiery blaze moments after leaving the ground. Sensing imminent doom, Alex panics and insists that everyone get off the plane. In the melee than ensues, seven people including Alex, are forced to disembark.

Back in the airport terminal, Alex is surrounded by those who were kicked off the aircraft: his friends Billy (SEANN WILLIAM SCOTT) and Tod (CHAD E. DONELLA); Clear (ALI LARTER) a young woman who instinctively heeded Alex's warning; Carter (KERR SMITH), who ends up in fisticuffs with Alex and is ousted off the plane along with his girlfriend Terry (AMANDA DETMER); and Ms. Lewton (KRISTEN CLOKE), the teacher who volunteers to stay with the ejected students.

As each fumes about their lost opportunity to visit Paris, Alex's horrific premonition proves tragically accurate. The ill-fated plane explodes in midair. Shocked and confused, the survivors struggle to understand how Alex was able to anticipate the catastrophe. Some are drawn to his eerie clairvoyance, but most of the group is scared of his gift. As skeptical FBI Agents question his every word, Alex tries to reconcile the tragedy and return to a normal life but portents of doom surround him. Ultimately Alex comes to believe that somehow he and the others cheated death. One by one, as each of these fugitives of fate meets an untimely end, Alex and his remaining friends must band together to change the course of destiny and outwit the untamable forces of death. [More]

Starring: Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Kerr Smith, Kristen Cloke

Starring: Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Kerr Smith, Kristen Cloke, Amanda Detmer, Daniel Roebuck, Seann William Scott, Roger Guenveur Smith, Chad E. Donella, Brendan Fehr, Tony Todd

Director: James Wong

Director: James Wong
Screenwriter: Glen Morgan, James Wong, Jeffrey Reddick
Story: Jeffrey Reddick
Producer: Craig Perry, Warren Zide
Composer: Shirley Walker

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

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09/29/09
David Nusair
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...glib, well produced, and reasonably well acted, adding up to slick pop drivel.

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04/25/09
John J. Puccio
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12/27/07
Joe Lozito
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About as subtle as an amplified death rattle--only not quite as fun to listen to.

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09/16/07
Christopher Smith
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Tedious and derivative, it will soon be long forgotten.

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02/17/05
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02/08/03
John R. McEwen
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A grossly underrated horror film with an intriguing premise and foreboding atmosphere.

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02/06/03
Andrew Manning
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"Hamhanded teen-philosophy stuff about fate and death’s design and living forever and nobody controls my destiny."

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01/31/03
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