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Rating: Null/10 (9 July 2000)

Already on board of it, high school student Alex has a grizzly vision of the plane, that will take him and his schoolmates to France, exploding. He gets a fit, gets in a fight and he and four other kids and one teacher are thrown off the plane. The plane takes off without them and...it blows up. After the incident, Alex is avoided like the plague, but very soon Alex has the idea that he messed up the death-plan from above and he tries to warn his fellow survivors that they're still scheduled to be beamed up to the sky.
Okay, the fact that the 'enemy' is never shown and the teenagers are killed by apparently natural causes (although, how 'natural' is being badly cut by glass from an exploding computer monitor while you fall on a set of knives trying to escape your burning house?) is quite original but otherwise this is a by the numbers horror-flick with the usual bunch of teenagers. This movie even adds pseudo-philosophical chatter and the premise that everyone who ever escaped death will still be dealt with a little later is preposterous. While opening credits roll, we see cliche spooky things: a wind blowing; a curtain moving; a door slamming...it's the whole problem with this movie: it tries very hard to convince the viewer that it's scary; don't tell and constantly remind the audience that they're watching a scary movie -- just BE scary. A view of the demises are quite 'nice', others are boring, and guest actor Tony Todd's bull***t monologue and the avoidance of the name `God' because-we-want-to-keep-the-tone-of-the-film -'light'-and-don't-want-to-offend-religious-folks, brings this already mediocre movie down even more. Watch out for the inevitable sequel: `Final Destination: Death strikes Back'.
Written by Glen Morgan and directed by James Wong, both of `X-files'-fame.
Four out of ten.