Unusual horror premise is certainly well made but it's certainly takes itself too seriously towards the last act.

Rating: 8/10 (11 November 2007)

Alex Browning (Devon Sawa) is a young teenager nearly done with High School. He's going on a field trip in Paris, France with some teachers and a group of students. When he gets an bad premonition on the place, while taking a quick nap. Alex panics and frighten, he finds himself kicked out of the plane. A teacher (Kristen Cloke) and five students (Ali Larter, Kerr Smith, Seann William Scott, Amanda Detmer and Chad Donella) got off the plane as well. Once the plane takes off, a couple of minutes later. The plane got blown up in the air, while it was still close to the airport. Now some students and his teacher are frighten by Alex's premonitions. While two FBI Agents (Daniel Roebuck and Roger Guenveur Smith) thinks that Alex might have something to do the plane getting explode. Now weeks later... one by one, the students are dying from unexplained mysterious deaths and Now Alex finds out that something is after them. It is probably Death is after them for not dying in the plane crash like they were supposed to. Alex has to find other ways to stay alive to cheat death, while He is trying to convinced the survivors that Death is coming for death. He wants to help his fellow survivors but it's a tough thing to make them believe a crazy story like this.
Directed by James Wong (Final Destination 3, The One) made an intriguing horror/fantasy/thriller that has an amusing dark sense of humour and a game cast. Wong certainly has plenty of moments of style and suspense. Wong and Co-Screenwriter of the film:Glen Morgan (Black Christmas "2006" and Willard "2003") certainly learned a lot from their days of writing television episodes like "Space:Above and Beyond", "21 Jump Street" and "The X-Files". Originally this film started as a TV script from Jeffery Reddick (Day of the Dead "2008", Final Destination 2 and Tarama). Which Reddick wrote it for a "The X-Files" episode at first. But the producers felt this could have been a terrific film.
DVD has an sharp anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1) transfer and an good Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound. DVD includes three commentary tracks. Commentary one is by co-writer/director:Wong, co-writer/producer:Morgan, editor:James Coblentz and co-writer/story credit by Reddick. Commentary two is by actors:Sawa, Smith, Cloke and Donella. Commentary three is by the late talented music composer:Shirley Walker (Batman:Mask of the Phantasm, Escape from L.A., Memoirs of an Invisible Man). DVD also includes Deleted Scenes, Alternate Ending, Two great featurettes and more. Two/Thirds of the movie is certainly an very good movie. But then towards the last act of the movie turns extremely heavy-handed. I also felt towards the end, it starts making fun of their own rules as well. To be honest, i liked the "Final Destination" sequels better than the original. It also takes Reddick's clever premise much less seriously as it should and the sequels are slightly more entertaining. But what's i think. Still "Final Destination" is one of the better horror movies of the early 2000's. It's certainly worth seeing. (*** ½/*****).