Directed by: James Wong
Starring: Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Kerr Smith,
and Tony Todd
For his senior trip, high school
student Alex Browning (Devon Sawa) and his classmates are getting ready to go
to Paris. They're boarding the plane
when Alex freaks out and has a horrific vision of the plane crashing and
everyone aboard the aircraft dying. His
understandably extreme reaction to this nightmarish vision gets his friends and a teacher thrown off
the plane. As the others bitterly watch
the plane take off and wonder whether Alex is a nut job, the plane actually
crashes, killing anyone and everyone aboard it.
They have all eluded death thanks to Alex's vision. Since they're supposed to be dead, they're
living on borrowed time. They soon
realize that death does not like to be cheated, and that it will get its quota
by any means necessary.
Final
Destination succeeds
where no other horror film has succeeded before. They kill off fools without having an actual
killer. The kills are therefore much
more elaborate and thrilling. Every
little detail matters—what the weather is like, where the victim is located, or
even what the victim is wearing. If you
make one wrong move, death will grab you and wring every bit of life out of
you. That is some real creativity worthy
of a few beers.
