Final Destination

An unexpectedly alert teen-scream disaster chiller. more

A terrific theatrical feature debut for television veterans Glen Morgan and James Wong. more

Will no doubt be a hit and inspire the obligatory sequels. more

Playful and energized enough to keep an audience guessing. more

So grim and humorless that the first half almost sinks into silliness. more

A mediocre fright-fest. more

OK premise quickly deteriorates into a silly, badly acted slasher movie -- minus the slasher.

Generates a respectable amount of suspense and takes a few unexpected turns while covering familiar territory. more

Disturbing--if less sophisticated than the best SF (science fiction)-horror TV. more

Serviceable enough, if you come to it with sufficiently modest expectations. more

This teen scare flick is a cut above most others. Here, it is not some crazed killer which 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, is escorted off the plane, accompanied by faculty members,... more

"Final Destination" is a pretty good flick considering that it's filed under the "Teen Slasher" title. The concept of Death coming after those who have thwarted their fate seems fairly original to me. I don't recall any other movie using this concept. As most of you probably know, the story starts out with a young man(Devon Sawa) having a vision of Flight 180, the flight he and his classmates happen to be on, exploding into a ball of flames. He freaks out, gets himself and some of the other students and a teacher booted off of the plane and shortly thereafter, his vision becomes truth.... more

I went in hoping very much to like this film, and I came out being surprised that I actually did. A group of students bound for Paris leave the plane when one has a terrible vision, only to find that it comes true a few moments after takeoff. Oh, but death doth not allowth such an easy route out. Soon the ole Grim Reaper begins to hunt down each of these students one by one and kill them off. Wow, a slasher flick with the ultimate slasher, huh? Yep, and it works beautifully. The film starts off with the best plane crash perhaps ever seen on screen and is quickly followed by two very... more