Final Destination showed promise of attaining high altitude, but it sticks too closely to an over-worked flight path of terror to soar on its own.
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.
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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Reviews for Final Destination
The movie tries so hard that you're more likely to be shrieking with laughter than just plain shrieking.
For a horror flick about precognition, Final Destination is sadly lacking in the ability to foresee what will thrill and chill audiences.
An interesting combination of well-mounted horror flick and sheer campy experience.
Has the ability to both surprise and frightentwo things that are rarely found in today's horror films. It's safe to say you will never ever look at flying in airplanes the same way again.
After its promising liftoff, Final Destination loses altitude fairly quickly and ultimately doesn't get very far.
A thoroughly repellent little shocker that exploits a still-fresh real-life tragedy for routine chills.
The schemes that Wong uses to dispatch these mostly attractive characters are not only ingenious: they provide some of the comic tongue-in-cheek moments that are part and parcel of the genre.
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