Failed Potential

Rating: Null/10 (30 July 2003)

I could almost have liked this movie. The premise was interesting -- no wonder it has been used in a hundreds of teen horror flics. The execution was horrible. (Q: What do you think of the director's execution? A: I'm in favor of it!)
Peter Weir's The Last Wave takes us to a similiar alternate reality, but despite a lower budget and much less technology, it does so w/ intelligence. The screenwriters and/or the special effects techs that did Final Destination 2 are simply clueless. I read alot of sci-fi and the trick is that while you can change any aspect of reality, everything else has to be brutally realistic.
I will not go into all absurdities that the makers of this film expect us to accept. They are many. I'm sure that it started w/ the screenwriter, continued w/ the special effects coordinator and finished w/ the editors. Sure Death can do anything, but making s**t flow up, repetitively, is the last refuge of the incompetent.