Freaky concept, poor movie! *Some Spoilers*

Rating: Null/10 (9 September 2002)

Well, Devon Sawa stars as Alex who along with his High School classmates are heading to France. Before the flight, Alex begins to feel strange and sees indicators that death is about to greet him. He freaks out after a vision before the plane takes off, and he and a few others end up back at the terminal. Of course, the plane explodes and Alex and the remaining few have escaped death, but unfortunately that wasn't part of Death's plan.
'Final Destination' started off very promising especially before and during Alex's vision, and Devon Sawa does a great job. Unfortunately, the remaining characters and script becomes very ludicrous and obvious after the first victim. This is where the film falls apart as the characters themselves become silly and cliche, as well as the script where the dialogue is used to explain the plot-points. It really felt obvious when Tony Todd arrives unbelievably as a mortician to explain the situation to Alex and co- and especially the audience. Many things wouldn't occur as they did in this film, and eventually I was getting frustrated with the silly indicators that death is coming. When one of the characters plays a John Denver record, I was like "gimme a break"! Seriously, the concept alone could have made this movie chillingly scary if it was done right. Unfortunately, it wasn't, and none of the characters were developed well enough to have there own underlying signs or chemistry for that matter. It got very annoying very quickly, and don't get me started on the stupid ending. Hollywood needs to write better scripts, and 'Final Destination' is yet another forgettable film without the tongue and cheek and clever self-awareness of the 'Scream' series, nor the innovativeness of 'The Blair Witch Project'. Ali Larter and Seann William Scott also stars in 'Final Destination', but I would hardly recommend this film as some others have on here. Nice concept, poor film. ** out of *****!