Final Destination Movie Review
Synopsis: After getting a premonition about a plane crash on his school trip, Alex, a student, saves a few of his classmates. However, their situation gets complicated when death starts chasing them.
Rating: Rated R for violence and terror, and for language
Run Time: 1 Hour 38 Minutes
Director: James Wong
Nudity Factor: Guy looking at an adult magazine with a topless woman in it.
Of Note: The story was originally going to be the concept for an episode of The X-Files (1993), which was inspired by Sole Survivor (1984). In this movie, a woman who was the sole survivor of a plane crash starts to be haunted by dead people that Death uses temporarily as vessels trying to kill her to correct its plan, and killing everyone who suspect it.
Recommendations:
This is everything you loved and hated with movies made in the early 2000’s. The long drawn out opening sequence before we see anything. The horror film that used a fair amount of practical effects. Finally and ending that left you scratching your head.
The story follows Alex who has a premonition that turns out to have been right. This leaves him an outcast from his friends, his teachers, and even his enemies. The problem is that his premonition might have stayed death for a bit but death is not that easy to turn away. This sends Alex and the few others that got off the plane with him on the quest to beat death.
Overall, the film is not terrible. It has all the things you expect a mild horror film to have, except the killer is not one you can see but represented by a puff of wind. For the most part I enjoyed the film for its nostalgia more than for the story.