Might keep you entertained for an afternoon, but at the stupidity at the characters who drive the plot

Rating: 3/10 (14 June 2009)

I was lying in my room bored out of my mind. The weather outside was a bit crappy and I decided to see what movies I could stream from Netflix. Final Destination was on my page, so I decided to watch that.
So, the movie starts out with a French class on a plane. One kid "sees" the plane blow up, and is thrown off of the plane for inciting panic. Several other students leave with him, including one girl who left simply because she believed him. In the terminal, they watch as the plane does explode. It's interesting thinking about this in a post-911 world. The kids are interviewed about the event and then let go after about 3 hours. They know that the kid was yelling about the plane exploding, so why didn't they hold him for longer. If that had happened now, that kid would have been detained for days before they determined he was innocent, if they ever did that at all. What follows seems like a typical slasher movie, just without an actual slasher. The antagonist is supposed to be an abstract concept like fate or death, but it's really just a shadowy Michael Myers or Jason.
Now seems like a good time to talk about the characters. They suck. Throughout the beginning of the movie, the survivors are giving the psychic kid(I have a hard time paying attention to names in movies) a hard time about predicting the explosion. I don't have much experience with death, but does this make any sense? I would expect them to be grieved, maybe even happy to be alive, but why would you target the guy that saved you? It doesn't make sense. There is also the girl who got off the plane because she believed him. She talks to him about believing him, and even believes him when the first guy died. However, after they establish that it wasn't a suicide, something that everyone else was saying, she suddenly stops believing him. Why? He made a prediction of his death, said it wasn't a suicide, this was confirmed, so you stop believing him? Idiot.
I can go on forever about the crappy characters in this movie. The stupid motives for driving like an idiot, the complete lack of any valid emotion after one of your friends is decapitated, and the convoluted cabin near death scene that occurred right before the main character decides that it shouldn't have.
If you're bored, you might get a kick out of watching it for the shear stupidity. But if you are expecting an interesting supernatural thriller, skip this one like it's death was just prevented.