Would be better if it didn't involve teens...

Rating: Null/10 (6 July 2003)

..."Final Destination"'s premise is original, but they definitely screwed it up having teens as the main characters. It seems that the producers wanted bags full of fast cash instead of a quality horror movie, because cast Devon Sawa in any 'teen thriller' and 13 year old girls will rush to the theater.
The story focuses on a group of teenagers 'escaping fate' by leaving an airliner before it blows up. Soon after, fate kills them off (using creative freak accidents) in the order in which they should have been killed in the plane. After reading that, you'd probably think it sounded like a good movie. So did I. Unfortunately, there are too many teen cliches to mess it up. There's the 'popular jock', the 'mysterious gothic hot girl', the 'comic relief' and the 'pointless characters only in it to be killed off'.
Despite the bad acting and teen cliches, "Final Destination" does please, with fun eye candy and suspenseful action sequences. Fair teen horror, 7/10.