Final Destination
Filled with young stars of the moment, some of whose careers have turned out better than others, but not great dialogue nor acting, the 2000 horror film is nevertheless notable for its premise. At a time where slashers and monsters still owned the horror market, Final Destination offered something new with victims who escaped death, but still being marked for it, are attacked through elaborate sequences of inanimate objects moving themselves into a position to lead to to a grizzly end.
After a some high school drama, the film really kicks off with Alex Browning (Devon Sawa) freaking out on a plane about to take off for France. Convinced by a premonition that the plane will explode, the high school student freaks out leading to a confrontation on the plane and Alex, one teacher (Kristen Cloke), and several other students (Ali Larter, Kerr Smith, Chad Donella, Seann William Scott, and Amanda Detmer) are escorted off before departure.
After Alex's premonition comes true no one, including the authorities, quite know what to make of him especially after those that left the plane begin to show up dead in ways that can't quite be explained. The cops begin to question whether Alex could somehow be involved even with that's not in any way feasible with some of the deaths (such as a character getting hit by a bus).
By far the best scenes of the film are "death" coming for its victims and trapping them in elaborate situations many of them don't survive (the most elaborate of these is saved for the epilogue). Alex showing up to prevent the next death, with wild stories about death coming for them all, only makes him look more guilty in the cops' eyes. Eventually Alex and the others, with a few words of wisdom from the creepy funeral home owner (Tony Todd, who would reprise his role in most of the sequels), discover if they can survive they have a chance to break the cycle and cheat death one more time.
The film was a financial but not critical success which would spawn four sequels over the next 11 years and a fifth sequel scheduled for release in 2025 all making use the same premise of those narrowly escaping death being hunted by the unseen force through the similar complicated sequences where are the film's real legacy.
Watch the trailer- Title: Final Destination
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