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While hardly a spiritual upgrade of the slasher film, this high-concept teen body-count thriller drops hints of The Sixth Sense into the smart-alec sensibility of Scream. Helmed by X Files veteran James Wong, who co-wrote the screenplay with long-time creative partner Glen Morgan, Final Destination is an often entertaining thriller marked by an unsettling sense of unease and scenes of eerie imagery. It suffers, however, from a schizophrenic tone and a frankly ludicrous premise. A high school Cassandra, Alex Browning (Devon Sawa of Idle Hands), wakes from a pre-flight nightmare and panics when he is convinced the plane is doomed. His ruckus bumps seven passengers from the Paris-bound plane, which immediately explodes into a fireball on takeoff, but fate hasn't finished with these lucky few and, one by one, death claims them. Wong brings such a funereal tone to these early scenes of survivor's guilt and inevitable doom that the already far-fetched film threatens to veer into unplanned absurdity. Thankfully, the tale loosens up with a playful morgue humour: one of the victims winds up the splattered punch line to a grim joke and elaborate Rube Goldbergesque chains of cause and effect become inspired spectacles of destruction. Final Destination is a pretty silly thriller when it takes itself seriously, and the filmmakers play fast and loose with their own rules of fate, but once they stick their tongues firmly in cheek, the film takes off with a screwy interpretation of the domino effect of doom. --Sean Axmaker
On the DVD: A superb commentary from writer Jeffrey Reddick, director James Wong and producer Glen Morgan goes into great detail about the film's background. From the team's involvement with The X-Files through to the fight to keep their title "Flight 180", they're pretty candid about the movie's secrets (cameos and character names) and bringing "Death" to life. There are also eight minutes of deleted scenes from an expunged sub-plot that led to their original ending. The explanation for its rejection comes in a 13-minute featurette ("The Perfect Souffle"), which demonstrates the result of Hollywood's reliance on test screenings. There's a trailer, cast and crew biographies and two games--"Your Psychic Eye" and "Death Clock"--which are scary enough by themselves. Rounding this exceptional extras package off is a 20-minute featurette on real-life premonitions. --Paul Tonks
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When Alex (Devon Sawa) starts having a premonition of Flight 180 crashing and tells everyone to get off the ill-fated aircraft. Several people including Alex , are forced to disembark, moments later in the departure lounge the students see the plane explode. You can't cheat death and the grim reaper picks off the survivors one by one, will anyone survive?
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Scary and clever,
This review is from: Final Destination [DVD] [2000] (DVD)
Final Destination is one scary horror movie. The suspense is sensational and the deaths and the premonition were ingenious!
When Alex has a premonition of a plane he's on exploding, he gets off along with his friends. Then, the plane explodes before their very eyes! Was his premonition true? Now, because Alex had the premonition th fbi think that he caused it. Only to make matters worse, his friends are being killed one by one in the order they were supposed to of died on the plane. Death is stalking them because they cheated it. The acting and directing is superb and this is a top-notch horror!!!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Finally a good film with a young cast,
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This review is from: Final Destination [DVD] [2000] (DVD)
A group of high school students escape an airline crash in which their friends were killed.Some time later events start to happen that make one of the students,alex,start to think that death it self has come back to finish of his work. This region 2 dvd has some extras including a couple of games,a bit of fun. A very good thriller/horror with a strong cast of young new actors and actresses.you won't be disappointed.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Death loads of fun,
By MOVIE BUFF "NINJA #1" (Planet England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Final Destination [DVD] [2000] (DVD)
Wow what a brilliant film, this is 1 film that will not let u down.This is a must buy film, also on the dvd u get a death clock which calculates how long u will live, only touble is it says i do not have long left, so this might be my last review :(
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