But it's Wong's contention that Death does not like to be cheated and comes back to cut down those who think they've escaped. A couple of FBI agents, who seem to be on call around the clock, would also like to know. And their questions become more urgent as each survivor meets a grisly end, one by one, and Alex seems to be on the scene every time. That also turns out to be the order in which the survivors are being picked off. It doesn't seem to matter to the writers that the survivors would have been killed within a fraction of a second of each other if they'd stayed on board.
Death obviously plays by the numbers.
When those deaths start occurring, it's not long before Final Destination becomes a dark comedy and not too much longer before it becomes just plain silly. Every house turns out to be a time bomb of hidden horrors. Wong tweaks every ghoulish possibility to repetitiveness. His film sinks under the weight of its own clever ghoulishness. However, he has staged a violent air disaster as seen from inside the airplane with frightening precision.