A Terrific 'Destination'

Rating: 9/10 (27 August 2005)

What made "Final Destination" so great was that it had a different approach to horror films. It wasn't your typically teenage-slasher flick type of movie with some madman hacking people to death with an ax. Instead, it dealt with the subject of 'death.'
Alex Browning (Devon Sawa) gets some of his classmates and a teacher off a plane which, he claims after having a dream, will explode. After the plane DOES explode, those Alex pulled off the plane begin to die, one by one. This just proves that, according to the film's tag-line, 'you can't cheat death.'
The ways the characters die are violent, but oddly realistic. The characters themselves make sense, and the direction by James Wong (of TV's 'The X Files') is great.
As you watch the film, you can't help but think that one day, your day will come. It's a very morbid thought, but true -- and the film says so.