A gripping and scary "Destination"

Rating: Null/10 (23 October 2011)

One minute, you seeing in your own vision that something terrified is going to happen to the airplane after takeoff. Then, suddenly, it happens in real life. And this is just the beginning of "Final Destination", an always haunting but thought-provoking motion picture. From the first half-hour, you know that you're in for a different kind of thriller.
After the explosion, Death starts a design that leads to some deaths of the crash's survivors. One of the survivors, Alex {Devon Sawa} tries to figure out who get killed next and to stop and cheat Death. This is really one of those times to put your brain off logic and on focusing on what really happens next.
Devon Sawa is intelligent and not afraid as Alex and Ali Larter's performance as Clear is full of anguish. Plus, little comic support is provided by Chad Donella as Alex's pal, Tod.
James Hong's direction is intense and scary when it really needs to be. The smart script makes the viewer to keep guessing until the very end. The late Shirley Walker's score is chilling and reminds me of the old scores in the films of Hitchcock. The effects help give the death scenes a shiver to the body and bone as well as a shock to the mind. The final showdown and surprise ending has the same feeling as well.
The film gives a perfect after movie discussion for the question of "what happens if or when we die?" It even shows why the later sequels didn't have a heart and mind. Because the film was and always has been an original. This is one of the scariest movies out there and a perfect Halloween film. If Hitchcock himself was still alive, he would have been so proud.
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