Not as good the idea, but entertaining

Rating: 7/10 (10 September 2005)

** CONTAINS SPOILERS **
Recap: Alex and his fellow students in the high school French club are going to Paris. But as they have boarded the plane, Alex has a vision of the plane exploding. He panics and angers fellow student Carter. A fight follows and the both along with some friends of theirs and a teacher are kicked off the plane. As they argue over the missed flight at the gate, they see the plane explode, just as Alex said it would. The terrible tragic is hard to deal with, especially if you "saw" it happen before it did. The school has a memorial hoping to heal all wounds, but soon thereafter odd accidents happen to those who survived the crash. They've cheated Death, and Death doesn't appreciate being cheated very much.
Comment: As I heard of it I thought it was a stellar idea. You can't cheat Death, he will come for you. Though the end result is not bad, actually it is pretty good, it is not as good as I envisioned. Basically I thought you could spin it two ways. A) a horror comedy with a lot of freak accidents or B) a pure horror with a lot of deaths and scares. Now it's neither, or a little of both. First, there are too few people to kill of to begin with. Time as to be filled, so a subplot of Alex being suspected of foul play (and he has a incredible ability to incriminate himself) by the FBI. The subplot is good but does not fit any of my alternatives above, and I think it slows the pace of the movie a little too much. The cast is good even though this is (surprise) no Academy Award-winning performance. Best is Seann William Scott in a role very typical for him. Director James Wong and his crew of special effects workers should be mentioned. It is well worth to pay attention, and I also had as much fun reading through the trivia and checking up on them afterwards as I had watching the movie.
7/10