Directed by:
James WongCinematography:
Robert McLachlanComposer:
Shirley WalkerCast:
Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Kerr Smith, Kristen Cloke, Roger Guenveur Smith, Daniel Roebuck, Chad Donella, Seann William Scott, Tony Todd, Amanda Detmer (more)VOD (5)
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Alex has a premonition that a flight he's on, headed to France, will crash. He tells everyone to get off the ill-fated aircraft. Seven people including Alex, are forced to disembark. Moments later in the departure lounge the students see the plane explode before their very eyes. Now the FBI thinks that Alex had something to do with it and follow his every move. His friends also start to become suspicious and slowly fade out of his life. But now, each one of his friends is being stalked and killed by the Grim Reaper, Death, who is intent on collecting the souls of those who cheated it. (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment)
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It's a good idea, but in an execution that I think would be more suited to a comedy or a straight parody, not a half-serious horror film for teenagers. Some scenes were rather ridiculous (the water that gets soaked back into the toilet after one of the deaths), some were downright hilarious in their overcomplication (the death with the computer, vodka, flames and kitchen knives would not have been lost in Hot Shots). But, as I’ve said, the idea is really good and Death has a lot of potential as a villain. You just should not imagine it as a skeleton giggling somewhere in a corner at the inventive kill it has put together.
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The opening scene with the plane crash is brilliant and some of the deaths are delightfully sophisticated, but the film doesn’t have much else to offer. As time went on, my initial enthusiasm wore off and the ending with the deadly electric cable is quite dodgy.
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The most original slasher of the first decade of the XXI century. And that is no small feat.
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The idea is very nice, the implementation cheap... Although at first it seems that this film could be more than a typical teenage murder film, it eventually slides into typical genre clichés, and the only thing that sets it apart from other similarly tuned films is the character of the killer... that is, if malicious death can be called a character. Actually, more like if you can even call death what Wong is saying death is, when it acts like a very sadistic version of MacGyver. Yet Final Destination has a nice atmosphere, but that does not change the fact that from a certain point it lost the last remnants of remarkableness for me and evolved into a basically expected "double twist", which is more awkward than funny. If we see everything as relaxation with an interesting theme, the result is slightly above-average. It does not scare in any particular way, the viewer won't remember it after, but at the same time it won’t scar one’s taste...
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An excellent idea, with average execution overall. The scriptwriters didn't care about the characters one bit and only focused on prolonging the fear of death. As a result, all the participants get theirs to a greater or lesser extent, and the whole thing is only saved because it all happens with interestingly morbid humor.
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A truly superb premise, supported by an imaginative and brisk execution. It could have used a lot more tension and the filmmakers didn't have to go for the craziest and most absurd deaths in the history of cinema, but Final Destination is, together with Scream, the best teen killer. And to its credit, it fulfilled almost to the letter what I originally expected. The opening with the airplane is really impressive and managed to put me significantly at ease, and although the film gradually turns into a series of very unfortunate episodes, the aftertaste in the form of an unpleasant atmosphere and an ominous vision remained in my mouth until the very end. The sequel is also very good, but nobody can match the privileged position from the entertaining and chilling first part.
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Together with the first Scream, it is a quality slasher flick, where this time the killer is not a masked murderer, but the Grim Reaper, and he can really kill in the most original way. You wouldn't believe how flexible a broken wire can be. In short, a horror and thriller in one with all the trimmings, which ended more than perfectly.
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