Final Destination (2000)

SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Sadly Over-hyped

In other words,this film is a surreal ride.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Final DestinationThe key to affordable air travel is wearing everything in your suitcase.However, this supernatural thriller occurs before passengers had to pay to bring luggage.Suffering a traumatic vision of a plane crash minutes before he and his classmates are to board their flight to Paris, Alex (Devon Sawa) attempts to warn everyone but is ejected from the flight, with others (Seann William Scott, Ali Larter).When the plane does explode, an unseen entity stalks those who heeded Alex's warning and survived. With freak events occurring all around them, the survivors must now stay one step ahead of Death itself.The first installment in the long-running franchise, this 2000 teen horror still makes an impact. With an array of intricate occurrences to keep viewers tense, this invisible interpretation of the Grim Reaper is certainly a unique one. Moreover, the Reaper loves travelling by air because it reminds him of Hell. Yellow Lightvidiotreviews.blogspot.ca

I know it's a popular horror movie, but how does it matter. The acting is quite ridiculous, cinematography is poor and amateurish, the only good thing in this movie is the concept of Death being fooled by people saved from it. Oh, and of course it's not scary. It create funny scenes (yes, because it's completely unbelievable, not just unlikely to happen), or chain reactions. That's it. I love the scene where one char makes a lot of precautions to avoid death in his apartment though. Is that even a great concept ? I mean, Death doesn't really care about us. It's not personal, you know. Death just makes sure some people die frequently, it's not like it's gonna make a complex, tedious chain reaction to kill you, and specifically you. You escaped a plane crash. Whatever, dude, Death is just gonna kill some old people instead. You know.

Having foreseen the impending explosion of a plane and saved his friends' lives, a teenager becomes convinced that they accidentally cheated death and that a grim fate still awaits them in this slick horror-thriller. While similar to Thom Eberhardt's 'Sole Survivor', this latter film is still blessed with a fairly original premise and there are several intense moments to be had as the teens try to avoid Death coming for them after two of the surviving friends die in mysterious circumstances. The premise does, however, offer far more questions than answers, such as why Devon Sawa's character is sometimes able to foresee what will happen, why Death takes so long to come after them again, and most strikingly, why almost all of the deaths are elaborate and over-the-top. Imaginative death scenes are great in a movie such as a 'Friday the 13th' sequel, but here it just seems pointless if we assume that Death really wants the characters dead. While it might not all make sense, 'Final Destination' is nevertheless incredibly well filmed. The early moments of Sawa's hyper-awareness pre-flight are very well done and the camera hardly ever sits still throughout, often gliding and sweeping over the characters in a creepy manner. The film additionally deserves some credit for ending on a darkly comic laugh for what it is otherwise a rather grim take on fate and predestination.

I first saw this in 2001 on a TV channel. Cant remember whether it was hbo or local cable. Was very eager to watch this. By this time the VHS business had already closed in mumbai. The Lcd n vcd were total flop. Had seen n enjoyed all its sequels, especially the 5th part. Revisited the 1st recently on a DVD. I own all the parts. The plot of this movie was very refreshing n intriguing. A bunch of teens r heading off on a school trip n one of the fella falls asleep and has a bad dream/premonition that the plane they are on will explode just after it leaves the runway, mercilessly killing everyone on board. The fella causes a ruckus n is removed from the plane along with few others. Weirdly, the said plane does explode n as the tag line of the film says, u cant cheat death. The survivors r later followed by a sinister dark shadow.... The tension n suspense is maintained throughout. Very original concept. The writing is really unique. The gore and death scenes are really intense. The deaths are impressively choreographed, occasionally funny and liberally bloody. The acting is decent. The effects are done to great effect. There are some terrific scares here.