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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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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By Mr. M
Format: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!!!
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
By Blue hunter
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Format: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.
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
By MOVIE BUFF
Format: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 :(
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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Enjoyable
Saw FD 5 first and this sparked my interest to see all the others . Bought this cheap on Amazon and was not disappointed.
Published 1 month ago by Mr. A. J. Woodham
5.0 out of 5 stars
good movie
kids go on a school trip to France, one of them has a feeling that the plane is going to crash so seven of them are forced to leave the plane, it consequently blows up on take off. Read more
Published 3 months ago by DLG
4.0 out of 5 stars
I'll see you soon!
Before taking off for Paris, Alex Browning has a vision that the plane is going to explode. Pannicking he gets off the plane and in the mêlée a teacher and a group of his... Read more
Published 9 months ago by Spike Owen
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Have You Ever Had Deja-Vu?!
Being made in 2000 its show casing the actor who played Stifler, (Billy), the year previously from American Pie. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Richie77777
3.0 out of 5 stars
This could have been a classic...
I always think of this as a recent release (maybe because of all the sequels) so was shocked to find it came out in 2000... and I'm only just seeing it! Read more
Published 13 months ago by J & K
4.0 out of 5 stars
Teen horror
Sometimes it can be hard finding a teen film for a 15 year old that does not include sex scenes, extreme sexual language and nudity - this film falls into that category. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Mrs C. Sawe
5.0 out of 5 stars
The original and of course the best
Easily one of the best teen films of the era in the late 90s and early 00s when these types of films where everywhere and one of the scariest horror films ever made. Read more
Published 20 months ago by ekb
5.0 out of 5 stars
YOU CAN'T CHEAT DEATH!
FINAL DESTINATION was absolutely brilliant! Critics weren't impressed by this franchise, but this first one which i just watched was awesome! Read more
Published 21 months ago by G. Stephenson
5.0 out of 5 stars
Highly inventive horror thriller
This was a rare beast when it came out - a horror slasher where there was no killer. 'Death' itself was the bad guy. Read more
Published on 8 Mar 2011 by Benminx
5.0 out of 5 stars
More than exceeded expectations
Before I delved into the heart of horror and thriller, I was very weary of the films I watched. I'd heard of this film the time Final Destination 3 came to cinemas. Read more
Published on 15 Aug 2010 by Mrs. D. M. Sutton
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