A Very good Mediocre Horror Movie that is clever.

Rating: 7/10 (27 April 2006)

Final destination is a very unique horror movie that differs from the others. The reason? You cannot see the killer. In fact the killer isn't an he or she, but rather an "it." Not even a monster. It is Death itself. While it lacks good acting, (they may make it look real but you can tell some fake it and the only GOOD actor is Tony Todd.) Final Destination starts off with Alex Browning. Your regular guy at a regular school with regular friends and a regular life. He is taking a class trip to France with his best friends Tod Waggner and his brother George. Along with them are The Jock/jerk Carter Horton and his girlfriend Terry Cheney. The Teacher Valerie Lewton, and the funny guy but with no friends kid Billy Hitchcock and the lonely orphan girl at the school Clear Rivers.
Pre-boarding Flight "180" Alex sees on his flight board that his flight has been "Terminated" weird enough he goes on and sits down. He then takes a break at the bathroom and hears "Rocky Mountain High" by John Denver who happened to die in a plane crash.
Still a little shaken by the thought Alex boards the plane and sits down. And the plane takes off. At first it seems like a normal ride but then the turbulence builds and all of sudden the masks come down and taking one section of the plane out finally blowing it up into Alex's face.
And he wakes up. It was a premonition. Alex goes and has a freak attack and gets Tod, Carter, Billy, Terry, and Clear kicked off while George stays. When they are told that someone must stay with them Mrs. Lewton tells the other teacher to go back. As the arguing continues suddenly the plane does in fact blow up and they are taken by the FBI to be investigated. The agents though happen to be interested in Alex seeming that he was the one that started it all. Though they let him go.
A few months later after a memorial service for the victims everyone starts treating Alex like a freak and Tod's father is making him stay away from Alex because he is upset that George died. They all give him crap and the service ends.
Later that night while Alex is working at his desk an owl comes by his desk and Alex throws a pencil at it when the newspaper flys to the fan and gets sliced. A piece of paper he happens to read say "Tod." Meanwhile over at Tods while inside the bathroom we see a liquid emerge from the toilet and start to slowly make its way towards Tod. Tod slips on the liquid and the falls into the tub with the wire from the curtain around his neck and it strangles him. The liquid get sucked back down into the pipe.
Alex comes by later to find him dead having "commited suicide." All fingers point to Alex. He and Clear together who think the incident was a little too weird decide to go to the morgue where they meet the mortician William Bludworth (Tony Todd) who seems to know a lot about death. He explains to them how death works. He also points out that Tod was pulling at the wire. He explains that death has a design and that when you cheat death. Death makes a new design to kill those who were supposed to die.
Later Clear and Alex sit at a Cafe discussing what they just learned. As he looks to the window he sees a bus go by and then he looks to see that there was no bus. All of a sudden fate brings the group together and Carter starts to give Alex a bad time. Terry sick of it yells at Carter. She tells him that if he doesn't want to stop giving Alex a hard time then he can drop dead. Instantly a second later she is run over by a bus.
After this incident they realize that they must try to figure out deaths design and try to stop each other from getting killed.
This film is a really unique story that I can see becoming just like the Nightmare and Friday the 13th series. Just have them keep on throwing them at us.
The only thing this one lacks (not the other two) is the gore. Otherwise that I can watch this again and again. For a 90 minute horror movie this is one you should see. Enjoy!