Terrible, terrible movie

Rating: 4/10 (7 August 2000)

At the beginning, the plot seemed promising but then it turned out to be terribly stupid. What bothered me most about the movie was the way they used cheap techniques to make it scary. And by that I mean all the stupid, non-sense accident scenes which are supposed to scare you. Now we are led to believe that "death has a pattern and chooses its victims according to that pattern". Suppose that it is true, why do all the people have to die in bizarre accidents? Are there not other ways of dying, say a heart-attack or sudden internal-bleeding or any sort of sickness? And why has it never occurred to the main character that the next victim could die just by a natural cause and not by accident? But no, people had to die in those bizarre accidents so the audience could be scared! Well, I was neither scared nor amused by these cheap tricks; I wonder who were. Throughout the movie I kept I wondering what the main message was, that death has a pattern, that we can change it? And why death always had to come as accident? Could the main character stop deaths from happening if it came as, say cancer? And one more thing: why did the main character have to presume that death was going to come immediately right after it took a victim. I mean just because he figured out who the next victim was going to be and could make a list of that, it did not mean that death was gonna hit the next victim right away!!! It could have taken 10 years for death to strike its next victim. It seemed as if not only did the main character know in advance the cause of death but the time of the death too. So, I think these otherwise-could-be false presumptions were expected to be taken for granted and the events were deliberately set-up which made the whole thing seem so obvious. Not a good scary movie.