Segue between visually spectacular and bizarre deaths

Rating: Null/10 (22 February 2002)

The movies plotline, about someone who 'sees' deaths of friends who 'should' have been killed in a plane crash, is insubstantial but acts as the necessary segue between their demises. The real draw of this film is the highly inventive and unusual way these people die. Just when the film sets you up to expect the death in a certain way, you get a 'rube goldberg' sequence of events, visually captivating, that leads to a different conclusion. Having seen this and many other films with my teenage children, I can say that once you figure out where the movie is going (not too hard) you can sit back and enjoy the visuals and the reasonably passable acting and 'go with the flow.' My only wish was that they had these kinds of special effects when I was a teenager.