'Avoid it like the plague'. Worst. Movie. Ever.

Rating: Null/10 (5 January 2003)

Yet another excellent premise ruined by pandering to a teenage audience in the worst possible way - through a plethora of over-the-top scare tactics and with a lack of unpredictability.
I waited until this wretched film got to the dollar theatre, and that's the thing I'm most thankful for about the entire experience. I feel guilty for recommending that my friends and I go see it, I feel robbed for not knowing about rottentomatoes.com back in the day (which has saved the day multiple times since Final Destination), and I wished that I had snuck in.

The opening scene should have said it all - there was every shlock scare effect in the book, mostly being the wind whistling through a room and shuffling some papers around. And it didn't stop there, like I was hoping against hope - the emotions were trite and the scares false throughout the movie's short run time.
And as for anyone who avoided planes after this movie: you're a tool of the system and most likely avoided air travel for a full year after 9/11 (when, in fact, it was the safest time imaginable to travel, and the cheapest).

At any rate, the best part, a jewel in the rough, was that simpering girlfriend getting plowed by the bus. That was classic. The rest was disposable.
And yet... I'll see the sequel, maybe even on opening night, as laughing at a movie is getting to be as common and as pleasurable as laughing or shrieking along with a movie.
Anyone who bought the DVD for anything other than the scant sexual content should break it into small pieces and go for the gusto in the vein of what they obviously are reaching for: a way to hurt themselves and like it because the media told them to. So, to them I say: go cut yourselves and stop funneling money into banal sequels like this is bound to be. Gah!