Good, but not great

Rating: 7/10 (6 November 2000)

This movie has a great concept, nice plot, moderate acting, but the idea of death choosing the most gruesome and "coincidental" death is... not understandable. It also doesn't leave many thought provoking questions hanging for you at the end.
Spoiler ahead:
A class takes a jet out to Paris, but one of the passengers, Alex, views what is going to happen before the jet takes off, and that is the jet will have a horrendous explosion. When he wakes up to find that he just viewed "death's plan" he warns the people what is going to happen. Only one other take him seriously, another follows him to beat him up, 3 others moderate the fight, and a final one just follows them for no reason. The 6 people view their jet exploding from the terminal.
Now, the basic concept is that you don't get away with "cheating fate" and the students now have their "debt to pay" so to say. Death carefully chooses each survivor according to at which point they would have died in the plane. A survivor named Tod is first. Now, death can do many things to kill a person. Tod is in his upstairs bathroom, and death loosens a toilet valve, leaving a slippery leak creeping up on Tod in the bathroom. After a few "close calls" with a shaver and a plug with a radio, Tod finally manages to slip on the floor, go into the bathtub with a coil strangling him to death.
Another very carefully "planned" death is where one of the teachers finds herself with a glass of vodka turning on the TV. A sharp object slices her throat, and a spark from the TV ignites the leaking vodka that was trailing from her mug on her way from the kitchen to the living room. She takes the sharp object out of her neck, and follows the trail of ignited vodka to the kitchen where she tries to get a rag on a rack of kitchen knives. The rack falls down, and one knife goes into her stomach. Alex goes into the house to save the day, but nearly dies when the house explodes from the gas in the stove.
Now, if death can control gas stoves, toilet valves, knives, vodka, and a coil of wire, why can't death just use the simplest way, and just push Tod out the window, and have the teacher just drown herself in the kitchen sink, or something else?
That is the only flaw I found in the movie. Of course, if death had chosen the "easy way out" it woudn't be a "teen movie".
The ending was completely spoiled, and unnesseccary. I like movies that "leave me hanging with questions". I don't mean just end without telling me the climax, but don't baby feed me the aftermath.