A new twist on the slasher flick!

Rating: 7/10 (2 February 2006)

Final Destination is your average run-of-the-mill teen horror movie, but with one key difference from most; a rather unique premise.
Having had a premonition that the flight he is boarding will blow up, Alex (Devon Sawa) causes panic by telling the plane, forcing the airline to disembark him and several other people. When the plane really does blow up soon after take-off, the FBI become convinced he caused the explosion. But they aren't the only ones on the survivors' tail. Death is also after them, and is determined to claim the souls that cheated it on the plane, and one by one they begin to die in bizarre and increasingly bloody accidents.
The film is simply far too ridiculous for words. But that is part of the fun  trying to figure out exactly what series of morbid co-incidences will lead to a gruesome death., and who will be next. But to compensate for this originality, the characters are all straight out of school clichés 101; the jock, the kook, the nerd, the princess  they might as well have cast the kids from The Breakfast Club! But what is interesting about the casting is some playing against type  most notably Seann William Scott as a nerd and Ali Larter considerably dressed down as the kook, while Kerr Smith enjoys a change of pace from his role as gay Jack as the jerk jock. The acting is all steady but never spectacular, except for a brief cameo by Tony Todd of Candyman fame who manages to steal the film from just a couple of minutes screen-time as a creepy morgue worker.
Certainly more original than any of the other major teen horror flick franchises doing the rounds such as Jeepers Creepers, and definitely worth a watch. But perhaps two sequels (including the forthcoming Final Destination 3) was perhaps stretching a good idea so far.