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  • Actors: Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Kerr Smith, Kristen Cloke, Daniel Roebuck
  • Directors: James Wong
  • Writers: James Wong, Glen Morgan, Jeffrey Reddick
  • Producers: Art Schaeffer, Brian Witten, Chris Bender, Craig Perry
  • Format: Letterboxed, PAL, Widescreen
  • Language English
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Entertainment in Video
  • DVD Release Date: 6 Nov 2000
  • Run Time: 94 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (63 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004YVFS
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 7,862 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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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

DVD Description
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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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars DEFYING THE FICKLE FINGER OF FATE..., 30 Nov 2003
By Lawyeraau (Balmoral Castle) - See all my reviews
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This teen scare flick is a cut above most others. Here, it is not some crazed killer who does away with most of the cast but, rather, the fickle finger of fate that selects the next denizen of the great beyond.

The movie starts off happily enough with a class of high school seniors about to depart for Paris. Once they board the plane, our main man, Alex, cannot quite overcome his fear of flying, as he has a premonition that the plane is going to blow up upon takeoff.

His hysteria is such that he, as well as four other students are escorted off the plane and accompanied by faculty members, one of whom returns to re-board the plane. No sooner does the plane take off, that it blows up in mid air. It seems that fate has snatched these lucky individuals out of death's clutches...or has it?

Their relief, at having escaped being blown up on the plane, turns to terror, as it appears that fate will not have them cheat death. The lengths that these young people go to evade fate, and the steps that fate takes to hunt them down one by one, makes for a crafty and clever thriller. Teens and adults alike will enjoy this flick.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars You can run, but you can't hide from Death, 26 Aug 2003
By Daniel Jolley "darkgenius" (Shelby, North Carolina USA) - See all my reviews
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Final Destination manages to find its own little niche among psychological thrillers such as Scream and The Sixth Sense. With X-Files veterans James Wong and Glen Morgan at the helm, the movie is all but guaranteed to be entertaining and gripping. The plot works well as a whole, but some of the minutiae and details may make your brain hurt if you try to delve too deeply into them. Some impressive special effects and exquisite timing squeeze as much fun as possible out of the twists, turns, and thrills collected here, and the actors play their roles quite convincingly.

Alex Chance Browning (Devon Sawa) obviously does not love to fly, but he shakes off several bad omens to board the plane taking a large group of his classmates to Paris. Just before takeoff, he has a premonition of imminent disaster and ends up getting himself, five classmates, and a teacher, thrown off the plane. While his fellow stranded travelers tell him off and ridicule his claim to have somehow seen the plane explode after takeoff, the plane does indeed explode just as Alex predicted. These six other people seem more upset than grateful to Alex for having essentially saved their lives, and he finds himself a social outcast and even a person of interest to the FBI. Things only get worse from here. His circle of seven survivors begins to die off one by one, and Alex begins to see a pattern in these events. He comes to believe that he somehow messed up Death's plan, and now Death is coming to claim the lives of the seven who were supposed to die in the plane crash. He figured out that plan once already, and he is determined to figure out whatever new design Death throws at him. If he and any of his friends are to survive, Alex must outsmart the Grim Reaper yet again, a tough task indeed.

There is not as much character development as I would have liked in Final Destination, but this does keep one from getting too attached to a character slated to die. The relationship between Alex and Clear Rivers (Ali Larter) is especially ambiguous. One character really stands out in the movie, despite his relatively short appearance: Tony Todd (of Candyman fame). He plays a disturbingly dark, strange mortician whose ruminations about death really push the horror aspects of the movie to a higher level. The death scenes are, for the most part, quite delightful. One in particular occurs so suddenly and out of the blue that you have to just stop and give the moviemakers a little love. A decapitation scene came off a little unrealistically, but all of the other special effects were quite impressive. I have to say I really love the ending of the film; it is such a rare thrill to see a cold-blooded concluding moment rather than a sappy fairy tale ending.

Speaking of fairy tale endings, that is exactly what the first cut of this movie had, along with a romantic element that ultimately found itself on the cutting room floor. Not only can you see the deleted scenes and alternate ending on the DVD, you can learn the reasons why the changes were made. The DVD includes a short documentary discussing the screen tests done for the film; as a result of these screen tests, the movie was altered rather dramatically in order to better please the intended audience. This documentary provides some great insight into how movies actually get made. A second documentary tells the story of a real-life "intuitive investigator." While this 19-minute feature is interesting up to a point, I really do not see why in the world it was included here. Back on the plus side, there are several commentaries of the movie included on the DVD. Final Destination is quite a good movie in and of itself, and this bounty of extra features makes the DVD a great purchase for those who enjoy psychological thrillers.

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars DEFYING THE FICKLE FINGER OF FATE..., 10 Nov 2002
By Lawyeraau (Balmoral Castle) - See all my reviews
(TOP 10 REVIEWER)   
This teen scare flick is a cut above most others. Here, it is not some crazed killer who does away with most of the cast but, rather, the fickle finger of fate that selects the next denizen of the great beyond.

The movie starts off happily enough with a class of high school seniors about to depart for Paris. Once they board the plane, our main man, Alex, cannot quite overcome his fear of flying, as he has a premonition that the plane is going to blow up upon takeoff.

His hysteria is such that he, as well as four other students, are escorted off the plane and accompanied by faculty members, one of whom returns to reboard the plane. No sooner does the plane take off, that it blows up in mid air. It seems that fate has snatched these lucky individuals out of death's clutches...or has it?

Their relief, at having escaped being blown up on the plane, turns to terror, as it appears that fate will not have them cheat death. The lengths that these young people go to to evade fate, and the steps that fate takes to hunt them down one by one, makes for a crafty and clever thriller. Teens and adults alike will enjoy this flick.

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5.0 out of 5 stars WOAH!!! ONE HELL OF A FILM!!!
I remember catching this flick on TV ages ago and liking it. Not until i saw the second one and was forced to go back and check out no. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Mr. Per A. Edwards

4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty good...
The first movie in the trilogy is quite weak in my opinion compared to the third movie. The characters are forgettable and the deaths aren't very imaginative. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Jodie R

4.0 out of 5 stars A NEAR PERFECT MODERN HORROR CLASSIC
Traveling to France with his French class, Alex Browning (Devon Sawa) has a horrific vision of the airplane exploding in mid-air. Read more
Published 23 months ago by stuart

4.0 out of 5 stars Reasonably authentic
The original concept for Final Destination was actually a reasonably authentic one: namely that death has a design, and a pattern, and that there are actually ways of spotting the... Read more
Published on 8 May 2007 by J. Roberts

5.0 out of 5 stars A great thrilling movie!
If you are into thrilling movies like i am, buy this!
The film is about a guy that visions everything is going to happen to individual people, one by one. Read more
Published on 25 Dec 2006 by crazykat

5.0 out of 5 stars My favourite movie
Final Destination is my absolute favourite ever movie. It has everything you could ever want from a horror movie: unique and likeable characters; brilliant plot twists; extremely... Read more
Published on 5 Nov 2006 by marky77

5.0 out of 5 stars Scary and clever
Final Destination is one scary horror movie. The suspense is sensational and the deaths and the premonition were ingenious! Read more
Published on 17 Sep 2006 by Mr. M

5.0 out of 5 stars Death has never been so scary!!!!!!!!
So, like me you saw the adverts for FD3 and wanna get the story of the first two. Alex is an average teenage boy physced about a trip to paris, perhaps to excited as he sees the... Read more
Published on 19 Feb 2006 by vampireblood

3.0 out of 5 stars GREAT FILM !! !! !! !!
Final Destination was a shock to me when i saw it as it really is another avarage american horror with a crappy young cast but this particular one turned out great! Read more
Published on 19 Feb 2006 by M. Western

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally a good film with a young cast
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... Read more
Published on 28 Jan 2006 by Blue hunter

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