Watchable...if you can cope with the ridiculous bits

Rating: 6/10 (16 May 2000)

Final Destination lends itself to having fun poked at it because it's all so silly. But at the same time, if you can cope with sitting through an hour and a half of mush and being whacked with plot-device sledgehammers every ten minutes, the ending is great. Having said that...
This is typical Hong Kong fare, thanks to direction from James Wong - a movie that quickly and forcibly tells you what is and what isn't, and then proceeds to break its own rules. There are scenes reminiscent of Scream, there are parts that remind you of Police Story, there are bits that seem like something from The X-Files. But then there are the parts that - if they weren't so gruesome - could have come straight from a breakfast time cartoon show, the way they're so contrived. Like backflipping lamp posts, and flying pieces of metal, and sundry other assorted devices.
Not to mention the mortician is just ridiculous...
But, if you can cope with all the tripe, surrounding it is quite an amusing story of how to cheat Death. Only problem is, Death doesn't give up very easily.
Six out of ten.