Very promising start but a horrible ending.

Rating: 6/10 (17 July 2000)

(cointains some plot spoilers)
Having read a lot of promising reviews here and on other sites, I walked into the theater expecting some sort of Scream-ish movie, but with a story and good acting (despite the unknown actors). But it didn't really turn out the way I though it would. The first scenes, with the unbelievably realistic air crash (vision) and the sudden explosion of the plane (in real life) were magnificent. No one could have done it better. But the problem was to find original "accidents" that will happen to the survivors, and that's where the movie loses its rhythm.
The first one with the water was nice and very original, but the rest of the movie was just cliché after cliché. The writers seemed to like the story they found, with the dumb coincidences and the "plan of death" stuff, and decided to keep re-using that idea till the end of the movie. Special effects and coincidences would do the rest. But the special effects didn't do nothing. All I noticed were some horribly irritating electricity wires flying across the screen. And despite all the coincidences, who by the way make the movie very unrealistic, the movie stays a little predictable.
The first 15 minutes were great, the last 15 minutes sucked reeeally hard. It's just a bunch of things happening without a story: Alex escapes death for like 20 times, talks to himself about death not going to get him and stuff, and the last moment he realizes what everybody in the theater had already figured out (PLOT SPOILER:) he hadn't changed seats and it isn't his turn after all (while he had escaped death for 20 times, that doesn't make any sense) and so he runs to Clears house where things keep going wrong. The director must have said "From this point, f**k the story, let's just have some more electricity, bad luck and everybody doing stupid things nobody else would do in their place." If the movie had been longer like this I surely would have walked out of the theater. My God.
For some dumb reason, (PLOT SPOILER:) everyone survives the car that blew up and nothing happens for some months, until they go to Paris BY PLANE (40 of their friends died in an air crash and they just survived it, and a few months later they travel by plane? Hahahahahaha!) and suddenly death seems to remember them and things start to go wrong again.
The air crash and the first killing were great and certainly deserve a 10/10, but in the end its just such a horrible mess. 6/10