Paper thin

Rating: 6/10 (20 March 2000)

Okay...so it wasn't "SCREAM". Well, it was supposed to be!!! Well, at least like "SCREAM" anyway. I read a 12 page treatment of this film (aka "FLIGHT 180") two years ago...THAT story was a smart twists-and-turns-who's-doin-it murder/slasher film. They screwed it up!!! Originally, "Death" was inhabiting the body of "someone" and was killing off the survivors of Flight 180 in the order they would have died on the plane crash (which is similar to the film), and the survivors were trying to figure out who the killer was before they died. BUT it was a very cerebral and interesting story.

"FINAL DESTINATION" was a poorly written film and an uninteresting movie...I haven't heard such poor dialogue since the last Akiva Goldsman movie...Yeah...you've gotta give it credit for a few shocks and squeamish moments...I mean...any film that that can somehow top Samuel L. Jackson's death scene in "DEEP BLUE SEA" has a tiny bit of merit, but the only thing I could think about through the entire film was how much pancake makeup Devon Sawa had on to cover up his acne. C'mon! Did they really have to keep going to closeups of him like that??? Sheesh! Talk about scary!!!