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| Final Destination [2000] | ![Final Destination [2000]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51CN77QQNAL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: James Wong
Actors: Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Kerr Smith, Tony Todd, Kristen Cloke
Studio: Entertainment in Video
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (63 reviews)
Sales Rank: 3383
Format: Letterboxed, Pal, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Media: DVD
Running Time: 94 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5017239190858
ASIN: B00004YVFS
Release Date: November 6, 2000
Theatrical Release Date: March 17, 2000
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Amazon.co.uk Review
While hardly a spiritual upgrade of the slasher film, this high-concept teen body-count thriller drops hints of IThe Sixth Sense/I into the smart-alec sensibility of IScream/I. Helmed by IX Files/I veteran James Wong, who co-wrote the screenplay with long-time creative partner Glen Morgan, IFinal Destination/I 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 IIdle Hands/I), 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. IFinal Destination/I 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. --ISean Axmaker/Ip bOn the DVD:/b 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 IThe X-Files/I 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. --IPaul Tonks/I
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 Pretty good... May 7, 2008
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. I think this is a fairly good movie although I do prefer the third in the series. It's worth watching if you love a nice gory horror.
A NEAR PERFECT MODERN HORROR CLASSIC August 6, 2007
Traveling to France with his French class, Alex Browning (Devon Sawa) has a horrific vision of the airplane exploding in mid-air. He starts a panic, getting himself and several other students, Clear Rivers, (Ali Larter) Tod, (Chad Donella) Carter (Kerr Smith) and his girlfriend Terry (Amanda Detmer) Billy, (Sean William Scott) and his teacher, Mrs. Lewton, (Kristen Cloke) kicked off the plane. Moments later, the plane explodes, as in Alex's dream. Two FBI agents (Daniel Roebuck) (Roger Smith) questions him and 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 and Clear pay a visit to Tod at the morgue and learn from the mortician (Tony Todd) a strange fact that Death is coming for them. As time goes on, Terry and Mrs. Lewton are also killed in strange accidents. Alex believes that Death is coming for them and is killing the survivors in the order they would've died if they would've stayed on the plane. Billy, Carter, and 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 and save themselves.br /br /The Good News: This is perhaps the smartest and freshest film to come out in a long time, and it gives us the perfect killer, Death. By having a supernatural force doing the killing instead of some one in a mask and machete hacking someone up. This sets up the films brilliantly designed deaths. There are some very creative kill scenes in here. My personal favorite is the whole scene around Billy's death. Alex has proposed the 'Death-is-after-us' theory in a car, and nobody takes it seriously. Carter, driving, stops on a train crossing as the bars come down. Everyone but Carter exits the car and pleads with him to get out, but he remains inside. Alex convinces him to get out, but he is stuck inside. Alex and 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 and 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, almost in frustration, Death flies out and gets Billy instead. A true classic, as are so many other scenes. The forest chase, the death of Tod, and 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 and 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 and going in slow motion is nearly impossible to determine where the scene cut and the bus and the cast member ended and became a digital effect. That is a great kudos to the filmmakers for this great scene. That brings up the gore in this. That has to be the most realistic looking blood in a movie I've ever seen. It wasn't the typical Hollywood blood, where it is simply thrown in front of the camera and 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 suspense in this film is simply overwhelming, and 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 mixing in gore and suspense.br /br /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.br /br /The Final Verdict: Almost the perfect movie, as it mixes in almost everything and still manages to be genuinely creepy. It is recommended for those who feel that 'Scream' almost ruined horror films and want to see a great modern horror film or to those who like horror films that are very well-thought-out.
Reasonably authentic May 8, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
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 pattern and attempting to cheat it. Sadly, this concept has now been mercilessly flogged and followed up with two turgid sequels, with no doubt more to come.br /br /But originally, 'Final Destination' was heavy with the shocks and satisfyingly liberal with the suspense. Rather than doing the usual cap-handed 'teen' smut, Final Destination has a reasonable plot and 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 and 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, and everyone immediately becomes suspiscious of Alex.br /br /It very quickly becomes clear, however, that the few friends who 'cheated' death are still on death's list, and they begin to die in some of the most imaginative and elaborate ways that I've ever seen in a horror film. To add to the disaster, Alex begins to predict these deaths too, via a series of 'signs', and he rather unfortunately begins to turn up every time one of the few who escaped the plane crash is picked off. The script and plot for this film are imaginative, even though some of the acting is fairy ropey.br /br /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.br /br /In terms of 'jump in your seat' moments, this film definitely delivers, and it's big on action and suspense. It also avoids typical horror film cliches such as gratuitous sex, nudity and 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! December 25, 2006
If you are into thrilling movies like i am, buy this! br /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 and why these people are dieing.br /It is well worth seeing! I loved this!
My favourite movie November 5, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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 inventive deaths (or "accidents"); loads of chilling suspence and enough gore to make the movie scary and fun but not enough to put you off or make you look away.br /br /Alex Browning has a horrific vison of the airplane, which he and his friends have just boarded on a school trip to Paris, exploding shortly after take off. He panicks after the vision and he, four other students and a teacher are forcible removed from the plane by the airline staff. The airplane takes off without them and a few seconds later, explodes just like in Alex's vision as it is ascending into the air.br /br /Thirty-nine days pass and everything seems fine, but then, after the funeral of the victims of the crash one of the survivors dies in a freak accident that is at first dismissed as suicide. But then the other survivors start dying in equally bizzare accidents and Alex and his friends learn that maybe they didn't cheat death after all as the grim reaper is stalkin them one-by-one...br /br /The movie has lots of suspence and 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.
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