Final Destination DVD

Advantages: Good Fun, Impressive Deaths, Decent Performances
Disadvantages: Fustrating Script, Some Bad Cliche, Bland Dialouge

...I went to see the Final Destination at the cinema. I enjoy all things horror, particularly in literature, but have always been disappointed with films (don’t you feel most leave too little to the imagination?), so the site of a room full of people jumping and shrieking made me hope this would be a real scare feast. It wasn’t. But wait. I went to see Final Destination twice at the cinema, for several different but equally pleasing reasons. ...
...Now as I said before, Final Destination is not a particularly scary movie, or at least not in the traditional sense of the word. One thing is that some of the special affects are very hard-hitting, and feelings of horror (or perhaps sickness) must reside in most viewers as they ‘wow’ at the plane crashing or the drawn out deaths. The film also relies a lot on ‘shock’ tactics, meaning things creeping up on the viewers and taking ... Read review

Advantages: A taut thriller with loads of scares
Disadvantages: The cast are nothing more than adequate

...to a whole new premise, Final Destination introduces the villain as Death itself. Devon Sawa stars as Alex, a high school student who is preparing to go to Paris on a field trip with his class. From the opening credits, all the signs point towards something sinister. And as Alex gets on the plane, he finds himself thrust into a mid air explosion. Moments later though, he wakes up and discovers that it was nothing more than a dream. However, convinced ...
...fashioned sense of Hitchcockian chills, Final Destination came hot on the heals of Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer. The difference between this film and those aforementioned thrillers is that this one takes itself exactly as seriously as it should. It doesn't bash you over the head with terribly clever rules, it doesn't boast an utterly stupid villain (check out Scream's daft looking masked killer for reference) running stupidly into doors, ... Read review

Advantages: Original approach to a horror movie - genuinely creepy...
Disadvantages: May be a little too gory and intense for some...

* Please note: This review first appeared on dooyoo.co.uk under my dooyoo alias of dlb74 * When the original 'Final Destination' hit the big screen in 2000, I was blown away by how original and fresh it seemed. Following the success of the 'Scream' trilogy, it could be so easy for a film studio to churn out yet another serial killer related film. 'Final Destination', however was something different. A film where people were facing a terrible threat. ...
...itself. ------------------------- THE PLOT: A group of high school kids are flying from New York to Paris. Once on board the plane and awaiting take-off, one of the kids, Alex Chance Browning (Devon Sawa) has a premonition that the flight is going to explode on take-off, killing everyone on board. Alex panics and demands to get off the plane. Amid the confusion, a fight breaks out between Alex and another student - Carter Horton (Kerr Smith). ... Read review

Advantages: One of the best movies of 2000
Disadvantages: Very few

Final Destination, or ‘Flight 180’ as it was titled right up until the last minute, was a surprise hit of 2000. It was made with a modest budget of $23m it grossed a nice sum of $53m in the US. It was in the UK, however, where the film really shone, up against the massive epic Gladiator at the time the movie managed to gross a none too bad £11m but what made it better was it was a true sleeper hit, it spent 14 weeks in the UK film charts. ...
...at first in reading about Final Destination. It seemed like a tired teen horror movie that seemed to be spewing out of America at that time, indeed it was only until about 3 weeks in to it being released that I actually lifted my bum off my sofa and put my bum on the seat in front of the big screen to actually watch the movie. I loved it, and it was made better by the low expectations I had of it. It isn’t groundbreaking but it is effectively ... Read review

Advantages: See op.
Disadvantages: See op.

Sky Guide described this film as "The best ironic teen horror since Scream". I enjoy horror films, but these days I think there are so many around that they really do need a little irony to help them stand out from the crowd. That in mind, I decided to give this one a go when it came on Box Office. Be warned, the following op does give away some of the plot, but even if you haven't seen the film and you decide to read on anyway it is still worth ...
...kind of know what's going to happen pretty soon after the outset, but it doesn't spoil it for you as you are still kept guessing! The film centres on Alex, a 17 year old, who is off on a school trip to Paris with 40 of his class mates and 4 teachers. When he boards the plane at JFK, he falls asleep and has a vivid premonition that the plane is going to crash, panics and causes a disturbance on the plane which results in him, 4 of his classmates ... Read review