Final Destination (2000)

User Rating:

6.7/10   

Director:

James Wong

Writers (WGA):

Glen Morgan (screenplay) &
James Wong (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

17 March 2000 (USA)

Genre:

Horror

Tagline:

Most people have dreams. For Alex, this is real.

Plot:

After having a vision of his friends crashing in a plane, he tells them not to get on only later his friends start getting killed one by one.

Plot Keywords:

Friend | Premonition | Death | Explosion | High School Student

Awards:

3 wins & 3 nominations

Cast

Devon Sawa	...	Alex Browning
Ali Larter	...	Clear Rivers
Kerr Smith	...	Carter Horton
Kristen Cloke	...	Valerie Lewton
Daniel Roebuck	...	Agent Weine
Roger Guenveur Smith	...	Agent Schreck
Chad Donella	...	Tod Waggner (as Chad E. Donella)
Seann William Scott	...	Billy Hitchcock
Tony Todd	...	Bludworth
Amanda Detmer	...	Terry Chaney
Brendan Fehr	...	George Waggner
Forbes Angus	...	Larry Murnau
Lisa Marie Caruk	...	Christa Marsh
Christine Chatelain	...	Blake Dreyer
Barbara Tyson	...	Barbara Browning

Also Known As:

Destination ultime (Canada: French title)
Flight 180 (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated R for violence and terror, and for language.

Runtime:

98 min

Country:

USA | Canada

Language:

English | French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Canada:18A (Alberta/British Columbia) (Canadian Home Video rating) | Canada:AA (Ontario) (re-rating) | Canada:R (Ontario) (original rating) | Malaysia:18SG | Philippines:PG-13 | Argentina:13 | Australia:MA | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:R (Manitoba) | Canada:18 (Nova Scotia) | Chile:14 | Finland:K-16 | France:-12 | Germany:16 | Hong Kong:IIB | Netherlands:16 | New Zealand:R16 | Norway:15 | Singapore:PG | South Korea:18 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) | UK:15 | USA:R (NO. 36987) | Portugal:M/16

Filming Locations:

Squamish, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

New Line Cinema

Trivia:

Much of the news footage shown is actual footage from the July 1996 explosion and crash of TWA Flight 800 off East Moriches, Long Island, New York.

Goofs:

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): During the memorial service at the high school, the speaker says that 39 students and teachers were lost. But there were 40 in the class, with four teachers, and seven people got off the plane so it would be 37 people who were lost on the plane.

Quotes:

Carter: What are you God now?

Movie Connections:

Referenced in The 100 Greatest Scary Moments (2003) (TV)

Soundtrack:

Rocky Mountain High

death like time has got its own plans

Without being an absolute masterpiece, "Final Destination" is a good fantastic movie that deserves to be watched. It borrows several elements from other movies or novels such as "Scream" or "And then there were none" but it exploits them very well. And this is helped thanks to a clever script that includes a few qualities, notably this one: we can't really see death but we can feel its presence and its cleverness. Moreover, the suspense is well lead during all the movie until the end.

But if "Final Destination" isn't a masterpiece, it's because it also contains faults: for example, how can Alex, the hero of the film succeed in seeing these odd visions about "accidents that are going to happen"? Then, he doesn't get on well with one of the main characters (you can consider him as his worst enemy) and however they'll be compelled to help each other in order to escape from death. You could also say that certain sequences are predictable while some are on the verge of unlikely.

Nonetheless, a rather good fantastic movie.