Innovative Horror

Rating: 8/10 (31 August 2002)

Final Destination is a pretty tight paced supernatural horror movie. The main lead, character actor Devon Sawa - but why do I keep confusing him with Johnny Lee Miller and Joshua Jackson? Anyway, he leads a cast of High School students (yeah, right) who are about to go on vacation to Paris. All before the flight, he has strange premonitions of death, and when he finally boards, he sees flashes of what horrible things could happen to the plane.
As he is dragged off in a panic, six of his fellow students and a teacher follow him or are thrown off for being disorderly. Guess what, something bad happens to the plane they were supposed to die on, but death hasn't finished with them yet.
Pretty good, innovative, attractive cast and even a guest appearance from Tony Todd (Candyman). Yes, they're all way too old to be in High School, yes, you could argue that it's just another teens in trouble movie, but the concept is fresh, and so are the solutions they have to come up with, which is all I can ask for after watching over 20 years of horror movies.
Not flight movie material, but well recommended.