Silly, but with a great crash scene

Rating: 4/10 (28 December 2001)

I thought the film started brilliantly. I love that kind of hallucination/dream switch with reality. I thought the opening crash scene was marvellously horrific.
So you find yourself in a really fascinating scenario: The guy had just had a premonition about a terrible disaster and then watched it actually happen. How would everyone cope? - Him with the guilt, the others with their suspicions of how he knew.
If you missed the opening fifteen minutes either re-wind the tape or don't bother watching any more.
Because.. instead of exploring those things the film took us down a stupidly childish story about hocus pocus and the dreaded grim reaper choosing who would die and who wouldn't and how, no matter how you try, you can't dodge your fate.
The clever young hero had worked out what 'Death' had "intended" - including the order that the escapees were 'supposed' to die. I hate this kind of nonsense.
The film just gets worse the longer it goes on and the ending sums it all up. I gave it 4 just for the crash scene and the first fifteen minutes.