Customer Reviews
Pretty good... - By: Jodie R, 07 May 2008 
The first moviein the trilogy is quite weakin my opinion compared to the third movie. The characters are forgettable & the deaths aren't very imaginative. I think this is a fairly good movie although I do prefer the thirdin the series. It's worth watching if you love a nice gory horror.
A NEAR PERFECT MODERN HORROR CLASSIC - By: stuart, 06 Aug 2007 Traveling to France with his French class, Alex Browning (Devon Sawa) has a horrific vision of the airplane explodingin mid-air. He starts a panic, getting himself & several other students, Clear Rivers, (Ali Larter) Tod, (Chad Donella) Carter (Kerr Smith) & his girlfriend Terry (Amanda Detmer) Billy, (Sean William Scott) & his teacher, Mrs. Lewton, (Kristen Cloke) kicked off the plane. Moments later, the plane explodes, asin Alex's dream. Two FBI agents (Daniel Roebuck) (Roger Smith) questions him & the others at the airport until the parents come for everybody. As a month passes by, everything is going well until Tod commits suicide. Not believing the official investigation of accidental death, Alex & Clear pay a visit to Tod at the morgue & learn from the mortician (Tony Todd) a strange fact that Death is coming for them. As time goes on, Terry & Mrs. Lewton are also killedin strange accidents. Alex believes that Death is coming for them & is killing the survivorsin the order they would've died if they would've stayed on the plane. Billy, Carter, & Clear meet with Alex to find what is going on around them, leading to Billy's death. Finally understanding what Alex has been saying all along, the three make a final attempt to cheat death & save themselves.
The Good News: This is perhaps the smartest & freshest film to come outin a long time, & it gives us the perfect killer, Death. By having a supernatural force doing the killing instead of some onein a mask & machete hacking someone up. This sets up the films brilliantly designed deaths. There are some very creative kill scenesin here. My personal favorite is the whole scene around Billy's death. Alex has proposed the 'Death-is-after-us' theoryin a car, & nobody takes it seriously. Carter, driving, stops on a train crossing as the bars come down. Everyone but Carter exits the car & pleads with him to get out, but he remains inside. Alex convinces him to get out, but he is stuck inside. Alex & Billy pull him out as the approaching train destroys the car as everyone relaxes by the roadside. The last train car stirs up a piece of shrapnel from the car & sends it out, decapitating Billy. The main reason why this is such a great scene is that you are expecting Carter to go, but then he is saved and, almostin frustration, Death flies out & gets Billy instead. A true classic, as are so many other scenes. The forest chase, the death of Tod, & the ending are prime examples of such scenes. However, right up there with Billy's death is the infamous 'bus gag.' This is a total jump scene that comes out of nowhere & hits with a ton of bricks. For those who haven't seen it, the 'bus gag' consists of a bus roaring out of the side of the screen as it runs over one of the cast members. Who it is will remain anonymous, but that is simply a great scene and, even better for those who like it realistic, pausing the DVD on the scene & goingin slow motion is nearly impossible to determine where the scene cut & the bus & the cast member ended & became a digital effect. That is a great kudos to the filmmakers for this great scene. That brings up the gorein this. That has to be the most realistic looking bloodin a movie I've ever seen. It wasn't the typical Hollywood blood, where it is simply thrownin front of the camera & it looks like it was dumped from a giant canister. The blood flowed a lot more realistically than the great majority of the 'blood films' of recent times. It also works on another level; the film wouldn't have worked if it was a big gore movie. The suspensein this film is simply overwhelming, & a ton of scenes feature at least a brief suspense part before it ends. This is a major accomplishment to those involved as the film is a great stepping stone to mixingin gore & suspense.
The Bad News: I really want to comment on one thing here; I feel the film could've worked if the beginning wasn't as confusing. It's not that bad, but it does take awhile for everything to make sense. It's a great movie, but a lot of exposition could've been done away with or used to clear up some mysteries.
The Final Verdict: Almost the perfect movie, as it mixesin almost everything & still manages to be genuinely creepy. It is recommended for those who feel that 'Scream' almost ruined horror films & want to see a great modern horror film or to those who like horror films that are very well-thought-out.
Reasonably authentic - By: J. Roberts, 08 May 2007 The original concept for Final Destination was actually a reasonably authentic one: namely that death has a design, & a pattern, & that there are actually ways of spotting the pattern & attempting to cheat it. Sadly, this concept has now been mercilessly flogged & followed up with two turgid sequels, with no doubt more to come.
But originally, 'Final Destination' was heavy with the shocks & satisfyingly liberal with the suspense. Rather than doing the usual cap-handed 'teen' smut, Final Destination has a reasonable plot & semi-okay acting. Also, there truly is a real air of suspense, which begins with the central character Alex, predicting the crash of the plane which he & his friends have just boarded, for a school trip to France,in the form of a dream. After rushing off the plane with a few of his friends, the plane promptly crashes, & everyone immediately becomes suspiscious of Alex.
It very quickly becomes clear, however, that the few friends who 'cheated' death are still on death's list, & they begin to diein some of the most imaginative & elaborate ways that I've ever seenin a horror film. To add to the disaster, Alex begins to predict these deaths too, via a series of 'signs', & he rather unfortunately begins to turn up every time one of the few who escaped the plane crash is picked off. The script & plot for this film are imaginative, even though some of the acting is fairy ropey.
The premise, therefore, is that Alex has to work out 'Death's' design before it picks his friends off one by one. The plot grows more intricate with every passing scene, until eventually your brain will ache with trying to work out death's design for yourself.
In terms of 'jumpin your seat' moments, this film definitely delivers, & it's big on action & suspense. It also avoids typical horror film cliches such as gratuitous sex, nudity & drug use, so it's actually a somewhat refreshing change from the 'teen slasher movie' genre. As I've said, the basic premise of the film is actually somewhat original, so this film is definitely worth a look.
A great thrilling movie! - By: crazykat, 25 Dec 2006 
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. By a series of events that happen to these people, inbetween he tries to find out who & why these people are dieing.
It is well worth seeing! I loved this!
My favourite movie - By: marky77, 05 Nov 2006 Final Destination is my absolute favourite ever movie. It has everything you could ever want from a horror movie: unique & likeable characters; brilliant plot twists; extremely inventive deaths (or "accidents"); loads of chilling suspence & enough gore to make the movie scary & fun but not enough to put you off or make you look away.
Alex Browning has a horrific vison of the airplane, which he & his friends have just boarded on a school trip to Paris, exploding shortly after take off. He panicks after the vision & he, four other students & a teacher are forcible removed from the plane by the airline staff. The airplane takes off without them & a few seconds later, explodes just likein Alex's vision as it is ascending into the air.
Thirty-nine days pass & everything seems fine, but then, after the funeral of the victims of the crash one of the survivors diesin a freak accident that is at first dismissed as suicide. But then the other survivors start dyingin equally bizzare accidents & Alex & his friends learn that maybe they didn't cheat death after all as the grim reaper is stalkin them one-by-one...
The movie has lots of suspence & just the right amount of gore. It is an absolute must see for any fans of the genre or anybody looking for a good movie.
