got me paranoid

Rating: 9/10 (18 March 2000)

We went as a group of three bored guys wanting to watch a cool movie. We left as three paranoid guys making sure we drove the speed limit and trying to determine which one of us was 'next'. A black cat crossing the street in front of us on the way home either didn't help.
Final Destination might seem to others to be 'Scream' without the slasher killer, but as I have not seen any other teen horror movies I am not aware of that. What I got out of this movie was it had a unique idea for a plot, yet an idea which I, and perhaps many others, have had in their lives. The idea that the grim reaper is out to get you. That you won't get a chance to tell your grandkids how you had to drive a whole ten feet to school in a broken down car with no air conditioning and they better thank their lucky stars that they didn't live in the late 1900's.
The acting was believable, although some of the characters' motivations seemed...odd. Like, I believe it was Carter, always wanting to beat Alex and acting irrationally seemed too unrealistic to me. But I didn't care, cause the movie was interesting and the whole premise made sense in a supernatural way to me.