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Final Destination
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 0065935133179
Format: NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language),
Theatrical Release Date: March 17, 2000
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Editorial Review:
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-aleck sensibility of Scream. Helmed by X-Files veteran James Wong, who cowrote the screenplay with longtime 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 preflight nightmare and panics when he's 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 humor: 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
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Final Destination Review
A well-made and exciting film, which is enhanced by a suspenseful score by Shirley Walker.
Rating:  - breath takeing
this was a really great movie when i first saw this movie when it came out in 2000 in the movie theater i was like wow my heart stoped beating i could'nt really eat my popcorn cause the movie was so dramatic,thrilling and breath takeing. When i saw the plain explode that really terrified me it looked so real then other plain movies it was like it was captured on tape that really had me at the begining then it gotten even better continuen the movie, this was a very amazing movie.
Rating:  - Good Premise, Decent Execution (Pun Intended)
For a seven year old movie with TV-quality special effects, a fairly straight-forward plot, and skin-deep characters, I should have disliked this movie, but I didn't. It just works.
The premise is that a bunch of friends escape their date with Death when one of them has a premonition the plane they are boarding for a class trip is going to explode after takeoff. Death is not so easily avoided though and commences a person-by-person manhunt, taking out each friend in the order they would ... Read More
Rating: - The 'OMEN' -like setup (a grisly death every 15 minutes or so) rolls along like a funhouse ride!
Here's one that won't be shown on transcontinental flights anytime soon. FINAL DESTINATION, a great piece of cinematic junk food, opens with one of the most frightening depictions of airplane disaster you've ever seen, and if you can get past that, you'll be shoveling the popcorn in, begging for more.
Devon Sawa and his really white classmates board a plane for an end-of-the-year field trip. Among them are "Dawson's Creek" star Kerr Smith as your garden-variety jock jerk and Ali Larter as ... Read More
Rating: - Teetering on the borderline of a mediocre teen slasher flick.
This is definitely a fun movie to watch, but it does come with it's unbelievable flaws, almost comical, as most teen horror flicks tend to these days. You're not sure who to blame, if there is any blaming, the actors for having the wrong emotions at the wrong moments, or maybe the director for not guiding them in the right direction. Maybe the story itself, death is coming after these teens, one can see it coming, but no one asks "why", "why is this happening", and "who is this death?", which would be ... Read More
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