Production companies: New Line Cinema, Zide-Perry Productions, Hard Eight Pictures. Produced by: Glen Morgan, Craig Perry, Warren Zide. It stars Devon Sawa (Alex), Ali Larter (Clear), Kerr Smith (Carter), Kristen Cloke (Mrs Lewton), Chad Donella (Tod), Sean Wiliam Scott (Billy) and Tony Todd (Budworth).ĭuration: 98 minutes. In the meantime this film has become a franchise with four more films and lot’s more original bizarre kills by death.įinal Destination is directed by James Wong and written by Glen Morgan, James Wong and Jeffrey Reddick. I am not going to tell whom this is about, I don’t want to ruin the surprise, but you’ll know which ones I mean when you see it. And those two sudden unexpected kills are short but sweet and a welcome change in kills. Although this first kill is a good predictor, you are in for some surprises. It shows exactly what to expect the rest of the film. But death is tenacious and takes no prisoners. The first kill by Death is funny and has a very well-done buildup which make you guess how Death will succeed and It almost doesn’t. But the most unexpected kills are by far the best. The exploding plane is a very tense scene and the most relentless and realistic one of the film. Some kills are very bizarre and so original it’s almost laughable and unbelievable. When he shows up you know you’re in for a fun popcorn horror. It makes it that more fun and although it is not a very complex plot, its originality and brutal unexpected kills make up for it.Ī big surprise is Tony Todd as the mortician who explains Death’s Design to Alex and Clear with his charismatic presence. Of course there are some red herrings, highly tensed situations which end in relieve but surprise you after you have held your breath and finish off the victims with an unexpected kill. It’s a joy to watch and to speculate how the next victim will die, and who will be the next victim. Those visions, signs and the way Death is sometimes physically presented as an ominous shadow, give the film a little supernatural twist. Alex has to look for clues, and he has to read new visions and interpret them correctly in order to save their lives. These situations and the pressing matter for Alex to solve Death’s Design so he and the other survivors can cheat death make this film a succes. Death is truly everywhere and hides at every corner. Supernatural liquid, electrical storms, a bus, bizarre household incidents which lead to deadly accidents, an approaching train and much more very normal situations turned bizarre and deadly. This leads to multiple really fun and almost unbelievable successive situations in which Death catches up with them.
With no real killer on the loose, Death finds his own mysterious ways to claim Its escaped victims. The fun and original take is the big feature of the film.
But when the plane takes off without them and it explodes in midair, they seem to have escaped death. Upset he tries to warn everybody and gets into a fight and is thrown off the plane with some other classmates and a teacher. In a terrible premonition he sees the plane explode and his classmates incinerated and when the fire reaches him he wakes up. Eventually resulting in a vision after he is seated on the plane. When Alex is about to go on a schooltrip to Paris he gets a strange feeling. This new and original take delivers a film with fun kills that make this young adult/teenager slasher stand out from the rest. Death was never so clever or original and goes through great lengths to get Its way. It’s a fun take on the genre which shines a whole new and fun light on the slasher genre with a supernatural hint. Death has Its own design and doesn’t like to be cheated. This time not a masked or crazed psycho or a revenge seeking killer is doing all the killing, but Death itself. In the wake of all the young adult/teenage slashers from the nineties brought back to life by Scream in 1996, Final Destination gives a new original impulse to the genre. Final Destination brings death to life with bizarre but fun kills.