Yet another Nike sponsored catastrophe

Rating: Null/10 (21 December 2000)

Final Destination does not know what it wants to be. It lacks coherency and direction and whenever it doesn't know what to do, it throws in a cheap gag to help it stumble along.
The crux of the problem with this abysmal farce is that instead of using a vaguely interesting concept (without ruining too much, something to do with 'the grand scheme of life', fate, etc.) to create an truly original flick it gets trapped in the Hollywood machine and therefore has to spoon feed the viewer, e.g. by making death into Death, i.e. a new baddie like freddie kruger, jason, leatherface, etc. Here, Death is made almost human so that the dumb viewer can grasp who the baddie is - pathetic and insulting.
Needless to say that the characters and acting are awful. Yet another generation of third rate zitty teenage actors of the worst kind. The acting is so poor its not even amusing in the most camp B-movie attractiveness kind of way possible. The characters are 2D stereotypes made so much more gracefuly in films like Scream.
This has got to be one of the worst horror films I have seen in a long long time.