Final Destination (2000)
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe 98m
Director: James Wong
Cast: Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Kerr Smith
Synopsis:
Preparing to leave on a class trip to Paris, a young student has intimations of disaster culminating in a full-blown vision, which lead him, and several others involved in the ruckus, to be thrown off the ill-fated flight. Their numbers were up, however, and Death finds ways of collecting his due from each in turn.
Review:
An intriguing premise (also featured in the portmanteau Dead of Night) remains so up to the point where inexorable fate becomes a supernatural force acting like a pair of invisible hands. The elaborately orchestrated 'accidents' work less well than the sudden demise of one character under a bus, and the ramifications of the pattern by which they are selected are short on clarity and fail to convince. At least it didn't outstay its welcome, though it did spawn a sequel.
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe 98m
Director: James Wong
Cast: Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Kerr Smith
Synopsis:
Preparing to leave on a class trip to Paris, a young student has intimations of disaster culminating in a full-blown vision, which lead him, and several others involved in the ruckus, to be thrown off the ill-fated flight. Their numbers were up, however, and Death finds ways of collecting his due from each in turn.
Review:
An intriguing premise (also featured in the portmanteau Dead of Night) remains so up to the point where inexorable fate becomes a supernatural force acting like a pair of invisible hands. The elaborately orchestrated 'accidents' work less well than the sudden demise of one character under a bus, and the ramifications of the pattern by which they are selected are short on clarity and fail to convince. At least it didn't outstay its welcome, though it did spawn a sequel.
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe 98m
Director: James Wong
Cast: Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Kerr Smith
Synopsis:
Preparing to leave on a class trip to Paris, a young student has intimations of disaster culminating in a full-blown vision, which lead him, and several others involved in the ruckus, to be thrown off the ill-fated flight. Their numbers were up, however, and Death finds ways of collecting his due from each in turn.
Review:
An intriguing premise (also featured in the portmanteau Dead of Night) remains so up to the point where inexorable fate becomes a supernatural force acting like a pair of invisible hands. The elaborately orchestrated 'accidents' work less well than the sudden demise of one character under a bus, and the ramifications of the pattern by which they are selected are short on clarity and fail to convince. At least it didn't outstay its welcome, though it did spawn a sequel.