Bad but good

Rating: Null/10 (26 May 2000)

I agree with the many commenters here who rate Final Destination highly while conceding its lame script and painfully one-dimensional portrayals. Seems like every few minutes there was a line of dialog or plot device that made me want to roll my eyes. Yet the film still rattled me in the right places. It's very suspenseful despite several elements that just about anyone would find predictable or contrived. In the latter category (MILD SPOILER AHEAD), I was both entertained and embarrassed by the incredibly convoluted Rube-Goldberg-style buildup to almost every death or near-death. It's quite unrealistic that nobody dies *simply* in this film, but the whole premise of the story pretty well dismisses a requirement for realism anyway.