Final Destination (2000)

Director:

James Wong

Writers (WGA):

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

Release Date:

17 March 2000 (USA)

Genre:

Horror | Thriller

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 | Teen

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:

The infamous beach scene was originally shot with the romantic subplot between Alex and Clear.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: The electric cable that threatens Clear and Alex writhe about like a high-pressure water hose - cables don't do that, however the cables are possessed by the Death force thus allowing them to act unnaturally.

Quotes:

Hare Krishna: Death is not the end.
Val Lewton: It will be for you if you keep harassing my students.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror XX (#21.4)" (2009)

Soundtrack:

And When I Die

Scared Me Good

I have to admit that when I first saw the previews for Final Destination, I didn't think much. But after reading several reviews that said how good it was, I thought about seeing it, but couldn't because of a busy year.

The story is about a kid named Alex(Devon Sawa) who just so happens to have a fear of flying. With a class of 49 students, they are going to France on a field trip. When Alex has a horrific premonition about dying in plane crash, he freaks out and is kicked off the plane with five other students and teacher. Minutes after getting kicked off, and Alex is calm, the unexpected happens, the plane actually does explode.

Over the next few weeks, however, teachers, the survivors, as well as the police become increasingly suspicious of Alex. Some of his friends even think of him as a god. Anyway, the survivors of the plane crash soon begin dying in gruesome and sometimes horrific fashions. Alex soon discovers that by getting off the ill-fated flight, that he had intervened with Death's predetermined pattern. Death, however, has made a new pattern and Alex must find out what it is to save his friends as well as himself.

I have to say that this movie scared me and my parents good. I also must say that this film deserves a lot praise. Although the plot is not original, however the antagonist is, Death itself. What I really liked about it was that Death never showed itself and that it turned simple everyday items into murder weapons.

Of course no horror movie is perfect. There is one beef I do have with Final Destination. Some of the death scenes are pretty creative and terrifying, but some of them seemed to have been forced. I mean who is going to place a beverage on top of a computer monitor?

Other than this one minor flaw, Final Destination is still a great and scary horror film.

8/10