Great idea completely wasted

Rating: Null/10 (9 April 2003)

A really eerie, intelligent, disturbing movie could have been made with this story. A group of people get off a plane at the last second because one person has a horrifying premonition of death; after they've gotten off, the plane does indeed crash. However, they were SUPPOSED to die as well, and since they haven't, Death, a living, conscious entity, is going to find them and finish the job. Sounds like a great idea, huh?
Unfortunately, in the wake of SCREAM, I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER and URBAN LEGEND, the producers decided they'd make more money with a movie directed at stupid teeny-boppers than intelligent viewers. The dialogue is plagued by the usual self-conscious SCREAM-like in-jokes, hip young (i.e. obnoxious, good-looking) characters and plot holes you could drive a semi through.
There are a couple of decent scenes. A scene in which a boy slips and gets entangled by the shower curtain cord until he chokes to death is effectively grotesque, and a sequence in which the main character locks himself in a cabin to escape Death is well done. But the rest of the movie is as predictable, obvious and boring as any other post-SCREAM teen horror flick. The main character becomes a suspect in the deaths, a love interest develops between him and a female survivor (WOW, now there's a surprise), and, of course, there's the obligatory twist ending, which anyone who's seen more then one horror movie will see coming from a mile away.
Followed by an equally idiotic sequel. "Not dying when we were supposed to caused a rift in death's design." WHO THE HELL TALKS LIKE THAT?????????????