Customer Reviews:
amazing.......2007-02-25
these films are so cool. its kind of like a teen slasher, but not really. the way it works is awesome and the whole premonision thing is a really good idea. unlike any film i've ever watched, but not in a bad way. i thought the third one kind of let it down a bit, but you have a special version where you can decide whether the victims live or die which is quite cool.
That Death Geezer is one scary guy!!!!.......2007-02-16
I love my FD box set! Theres a lot of teen horror movies out there but no matter how many times I watch these films, I still get an eerie sinister feeling about me every time! It is a very weird concept to think about all this death having a design lark! It definately gives you the creeps!
The accident scenes are very intriquately thought out and keep you guessing what is actually going to occur until the second it actually happens! It kind of amuses me that they really go for the gore factor in this film and everytime anybody dies, every bystander within a half mile radius gets a good spattering with blood!
My favourites are the first film and third film and a special mention should go to Tony Todd's appearances as the creepy coroner!!!
Original and amazing!!.......2007-01-10
The final destination series is probably the most watched DVD's out of all my DVD's. The first one was great because it was different and I had never seen anything like it before. It really does make you question the theory, can you cheat death?
Premonitions do interest me because they are predicitons of future events. I believe that what makes the film, the fact that it could happen. It's a horror film not about some invincible killer that is never going to exist but something more believable.
There are some talented actors and actresses in the films which help create the suspense, Devon Sawa, Alit Larter and A.J Cook to name a few. All in all a great set of films for anyone who likes suspense.
Best series ever.......2006-11-05
I wasn't going to write a review of the Final Destination movies because they are so good I worried that my review may not be able to do them justice but when I discovered that the overall rating for this box set was just 3 and a half stars (a rediculously low rating) I decided that I'd better try.
The Final Destination movies are by far my favourite movies (horror or not) EVER and I hope the series gets the endless number of sequels that it deserves.
Final Destination: Alex has a horrible premontion that the airplane he and his classmates sre boarding for French trip is going to crash. He freaks out on the airplane and he and five other people (four students and a teacher) are forcible removed from the airplane. The airplane does crash exactly as seen in Alex's premonition and so it seems that the lucky friends have cheated death. All goes well for the next 39 days until the night after the funeral of the victims of the aircrash and one of the survivors dies in a freak accident.
At first it seems as though the accident was a suicide, but then the other survivors also start to die in bizzare accidents and Alex and his friends must figure out deaths design - and cheat it again - before the grim reaper takes their lives.
Final Destinations 2 involves a girl having a premontion of a major car pile-up on a highway and pulls her car across the road preventing the aciident. The rest of the story is similar to number one but it is gorier and has a higher body-count while still managing to maintain those wonderfully imaginitive deaths, or "accidents".
The last survivor of the flight 180 disaster from the first movie (i wont spoil it by saying who) is in a mental institution but agrees to help the survivors of the car pile-up defeat death once and for all.
Final Destination 3: This time the premontition is of a rollercoaster disaster. Yes, the basic storyline is the same in all 3 movies but not enough for them to get boring. In this movie there is a great ammount of suspence as we do not know who is going to die next and this movie is a lot scarier than the prequels as well as gorier.
The deaths in the movies are scary and very suspenceful (and sometimes deliver shocks that make you gasp out loud). The storyline does not get boring and, in fact, (because of new twists, etc in each movie) improves with each addition to the series. This is absolutley the best series of movie ever. The movies are better than I make them sound but I'm not a skilled enough reviewer to do them justice.
I would recomend this series (or any of the individual movies) to anybody and if you've read this review and have still not decided whether or not to buy/watch than please at least buy or rent the first Final Destination and give it a chance. I guarantee you will not regret it if you do.
guilty pleasures #2.......2006-08-10
so by now you know the story - you can avoid taxes but death is that little bit more persistent. three people have a premonition (plane crash, pile up and fairgorund catastrophy) and soon they and the people they inadvertantly save begin to die in any number of unusual, unpleasant and creative ways as the grim reaper starts to take it personal.
the first film (a surprise hit if i remember correctly) starts the ball rolling. imo this film is slightly slower paced than the other two and drags a bit at times, even if it does remain watchable
fd2 sees the makes up the ante. first of all with a superbly orchestrated car crash, then with the deaths, becoming more and more outlandish
perhaps because there's less exposition than the first film the sequels seem to move more smoothly. there's also a sly undercurrent of humour, or at least a degree of irony to some of the deaths. a personal highlight was the two 'whatever' chicks in fd3 going for a tan and, like the irish in the sun, getting burnt.
get the feeling that this is one that could run and run, though i bet prospective writers for fd4 are cursing the ending of fd3. good idea...
Amazon.co.uk Review
While hardly a spiritual upgrade of the slasher film, this high-concept teen body-count thriller drops hints of The Sixth Sense into the smart-alec sensibility of Scream. Helmed by X Files veteran James Wong, who co-wrote the screenplay with long-time creative partner Glen Morgan, Final Destination 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 Idle Hands), 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. Final Destination 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. --Sean Axmaker
On the DVD: 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 The X-Files 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. --Paul Tonks
Customer Reviews:
A NEAR PERFECT MODERN HORROR CLASSIC.......2007-08-06
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.
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.
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 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.......2007-05-08
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.
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.
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.
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 '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!.......2006-12-25
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 and why these people are dieing.
It is well worth seeing! I loved this!
My favourite movie.......2006-11-05
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.
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.
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...
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.
Scary and clever.......2006-09-17
Final Destination is one scary horror movie. The suspense is sensational and the deaths and the premonition were ingenious!
When Alex has a premonition of a plane he's on exploding, he gets off along with his friends. Then, the plane explodes before their very eyes! Was his premonition true? Now, because Alex had the premonition th fbi think that he caused it. Only to make matters worse, his friends are being killed one by one in the order they were supposed to of died on the plane. Death is stalking them because they cheated it.
The acting and directing is superb and this is a top-notch horror!!!
Amazon.co.uk Review
Let's be realistic. No one is ever going to make the case that either of the Final Destination films should be laden with awards and awash with critical acclaim. Yet in their own ways, both punch above their weight. This welcome double pack, released to coincide with the theatrical release of Final Destination 3, offers ample evidence why.
The first is the better of the two, and it sets the premise up well. After a dramatic near-death experience, correctly foreseen by one of their number, a group of young friends soon find that not all is as it seems. Death, it seems, is coming back for them one at a time, and that's an excuse for some intricate set pieces as the group find themselves in immense danger, as they try to puzzle out how to alter death's plans. The second works surprisingly well too. Okay, it does little more than photocopy a winning formula, but its set pieces are that bit more over-the-top to compensate, and while it barely has an original moment in its running time, it is a genuine hoot.
Both films have a handy selection of shock moments, and both motor through at enough speed to paper over any cracks. And the end result in both cases is an enjoyable, sprightly ride, best enjoyed with the brain switched to neutral.--Simon Brew
Customer Reviews:
Very funny!.......2006-03-04
This is rated under 'Horror, Thiller' etc but I think it should also have comedy! Basically, in each film a kid has a premonition of how their gonna die (in a freak accident - plane crash in 1st, motoway pile up in 2nd) and manages to prevent theirs and several other peoples death. However, each of the survivors continue to die in weird ways in the order they were meant to die in the original accident. This is because they were 'meant' to die in the original and are now on 'deaths list', if you like. The kid who had the promonition must find a way to save the remaining survivors and 'cheat death'. I especially like the dentist boy's death and the lift scene (eww) in the 2nd film!
These Movies Are So Creative.......2006-02-10
OK So you seen the Trailer for Final Destination 3 and thought you should at least check the first 2 out before you check out number 3 well let me say 1 thing first, you won't be dissapointed.
The basic story may seem kind of silly but you will see that it actually has a smart way to it.
Final Destination 1 is based around a school trip that goes tragically wrong, as the class of kids board the plane one of them has a vision that the plane will explode and tells everybody on the plane but thinking he is crazy only a few kids get off the plane with him thus they survive the disaster of the plane exploding & avoiding death by the skin of their teeth. These kids weren't ment to survive and death is unhappy and is still determined to end the childrens lives in the order they were ment to die on the plane.
Final Destination 2 is around the same basis a group of high school kids embark on a road trip but on the drive the driver has a vision of a terrible pileup that leaves her and all her friends dead. One by one like the first movie there are survivors and they are killed off in the quite possibly most creative ways you can think of.
These films are very dark movies but in a sort of way very comical, be warned also that the death sequences are very graphic but i seriously suggest you check them out because they are very good films.
Humdinger for praise of FD1.......2005-07-05
This refers to Final Destination 1. This was the second time of veiwing, but a reminder before seeing FD2. Let's hope the plot definition was required to underpin FD2, I 'll let you know. This refers to a rental issue of FD1
Great killing by numbers movies........2004-03-08
Apart from being a nice little idea.....these films are basically a vehicle for the deaths. The first film has some good ones, but they definitely outdid themselves in the second one, with some really ingenious killings (I particularly liked the barb wire fence!).
Both of these are well worth watching, it's not rocket science, but it is fun.
The best teen scary films around........2004-01-05
These films are soo cool.
The first 1 has a better story, but the second 1 has better death scenes!
Customer Reviews:
Great Theory.......2006-12-22
Although not something that is completely shocking as far as a "horror" would go, but i think the idea behind the plot is a great one. That there's a plan for us all, and when your time's up, your time's up! Unless you cheat death. Very good, and something i enjoy watching. Although not when i'm due to travel anywhere on a plane.
Amazon.co.uk Review
While hardly a spiritual upgrade of the slasher film, this high-concept teen body-count thriller drops hints of The Sixth Sense into the smart-alec sensibility of Scream. Helmed by X Files veteran James Wong, who co-wrote the screenplay with long-time creative partner Glen Morgan, Final Destination 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 Idle Hands), 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. Final Destination 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. --Sean Axmaker
On the DVD: 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 The X-Files 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. --Paul Tonks
Customer Reviews:
A NEAR PERFECT MODERN HORROR CLASSIC.......2007-08-06
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.
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.
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 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.......2007-05-08
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.
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.
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.
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 '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!.......2006-12-25
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 and why these people are dieing.
It is well worth seeing! I loved this!
My favourite movie.......2006-11-05
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.
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.
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...
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.
Scary and clever.......2006-09-17
Final Destination is one scary horror movie. The suspense is sensational and the deaths and the premonition were ingenious!
When Alex has a premonition of a plane he's on exploding, he gets off along with his friends. Then, the plane explodes before their very eyes! Was his premonition true? Now, because Alex had the premonition th fbi think that he caused it. Only to make matters worse, his friends are being killed one by one in the order they were supposed to of died on the plane. Death is stalking them because they cheated it.
The acting and directing is superb and this is a top-notch horror!!!
Amazon.co.uk Review
While hardly a spiritual upgrade of the slasher film, this high-concept teen body-count thriller drops hints of The Sixth Sense into the smart-alec sensibility of Scream. Helmed by X Files veteran James Wong, who co-wrote the screenplay with long-time creative partner Glen Morgan, Final Destination 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 Idle Hands), 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. Final Destination 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. --Sean Axmaker
On the DVD: 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 The X-Files 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. --Paul Tonks
Customer Reviews:
A NEAR PERFECT MODERN HORROR CLASSIC.......2007-08-06
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.
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.
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 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.......2007-05-08
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.
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.
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.
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 '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!.......2006-12-25
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 and why these people are dieing.
It is well worth seeing! I loved this!
My favourite movie.......2006-11-05
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.
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.
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...
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.
Scary and clever.......2006-09-17
Final Destination is one scary horror movie. The suspense is sensational and the deaths and the premonition were ingenious!
When Alex has a premonition of a plane he's on exploding, he gets off along with his friends. Then, the plane explodes before their very eyes! Was his premonition true? Now, because Alex had the premonition th fbi think that he caused it. Only to make matters worse, his friends are being killed one by one in the order they were supposed to of died on the plane. Death is stalking them because they cheated it.
The acting and directing is superb and this is a top-notch horror!!!
Amazon.co.uk Review
While hardly a spiritual upgrade of the slasher film, this high-concept teen body-count thriller drops hints of The Sixth Sense into the smart-alec sensibility of Scream. Helmed by X Files veteran James Wong, who co-wrote the screenplay with long-time creative partner Glen Morgan, Final Destination 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 Idle Hands), 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. Final Destination 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. --Sean Axmaker
On the DVD: 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 The X-Files 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. --Paul Tonks
Customer Reviews:
A NEAR PERFECT MODERN HORROR CLASSIC.......2007-08-06
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.
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.
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 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.......2007-05-08
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.
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.
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.
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 '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!.......2006-12-25
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 and why these people are dieing.
It is well worth seeing! I loved this!
My favourite movie.......2006-11-05
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.
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.
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...
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.
Scary and clever.......2006-09-17
Final Destination is one scary horror movie. The suspense is sensational and the deaths and the premonition were ingenious!
When Alex has a premonition of a plane he's on exploding, he gets off along with his friends. Then, the plane explodes before their very eyes! Was his premonition true? Now, because Alex had the premonition th fbi think that he caused it. Only to make matters worse, his friends are being killed one by one in the order they were supposed to of died on the plane. Death is stalking them because they cheated it.
The acting and directing is superb and this is a top-notch horror!!!
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