a guilty watch

Rating: 7/10 (23 April 2006)

A group of high school students are flying to Paris for a school excursion. While waiting for take off, Alex has a vivid dream of the plane exploding mid air, just after take off. Alex freaks out and is removed from the plane, along with five other students; Clear, Carter, Billy, Terry and Tod, as too one of the teachers; Ms. Lewton. They don't believe Alex, thinking he's hysterical, yet when the plane explodes, they don't know what to believe.
Final Destination has a great premise. As they left the plane, the seven 'survivors', cheated death in doing so. Though death is not done with them, picking them off one by one; there's no cheating death. Yet Final Destination isn't that great of a film over all. The directing is clumsy at times, the acting is nothing great, the dialog is nothing special either, yet these aren't the elements that make Final Destination a great watch. It's the elaborate deaths scenes that make this so interesting. Each one is either out of no where or meticulously drawn out for some exciting suspense.
Devon Sawa, Kerr Smith, Seann William Scott and Kristen Cloke don't bring that memorable of performances. Ali Larter is quite good as Clear, she does the best acting of the lot.
Final Destination isn't a brilliant thriller, yet is such a guilty pleasure to watch.