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It may be that debuting feature director James Wong and his writing partner Glenn Morgan have not been able to unlearn the habits aquired in scripting many episodes of The X Files and Millennium, shows which have continuing mysteries and are thus not obliged to offer closure. Unfortunately (and ironically for a film so titled), Final Destination has after its set-up literally nowhere to go. There’s a real feeling for the chaos that ensues after Alex’s freak-out, which serves also to deftly introduce all the characters who will (temporarily survive), and the real-life explosion that replicates Alex’s premonition is shatteringly done, as a puff of flame in the distance while Alex and Carter are pulled out of another fight before the blast shatters the terminal windows. Grimly silent as all his schoolfriends are arguing, flirting or joking, Alex observes a succession of details that serve to convince him that his flight is a death-trap: the gap between boarding tunnel and plane door, a crying baby and a handicapped passenger (Tod comments that God would have to be really cruel to let this plane crash), miserable weather outside, scraped paint and patches of rust on the wings and fuselage, a broken toggle on the seat-back tray, alarmingly casual staff, piped John Denver music (‘didn’t he die in a plane crash?’). The opening sequence of Final Destination may not have the elaborate effects of the plane crashes that start Alive or Fearless, but does manage to convey every white-knuckle flyer’s vision of the worst aspects of flying.
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It also packs all the tired cliches into the entire last half of the movie, which left me ultimately disappointed.I thought I’d assemble my notes/reviews of the series in one handy place. Final Destination is from X-Files writers Glen Morgan and James Wong and contains some truly smart writing and original action sequences. Unfortunately, like most horror films, it starts out great, then goes downhill with a predictable ending. Had this idea been further explored “Final Destination” could have risen above the crop of current bad teen horror movies.
Here is where the film really had potential. The scene is even accompanied by exceedingly bad guitar folk music for true authenticity. There’s a funeral sequence that is staged much like the haunting images at Columbine. I found the first half of this film truly frightening as it dealt with the real life issues of the deaths of Alex’s friends.
The deaths get far more ridiculous as it seems normal household appliances end up as the culprits - watch out for killer kitchen knives, evil electrical wires and pscyho cans of turpentine to go on a murderous rampage. Some of these “accidental” deaths border on the totally ridiculous as one student is offed with toilet water. We soon discover that each of the survivors, including Alex, was supposedly MEANT to die in the plane crash and are marked for death. He must now deal with the deaths of his classmates and the guilt at having survived. But before the plane takes off, Alex quickly exits and drags five of his friends with him. He has a frightening premonition that the plane will explode and everyone will die and guess what? It does.
“Final Destination” is the tale of Alex, a teenager traveling with his high school class to France.