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Final Destination - New Line Platinum Series

Final Destination - New Line Platinum Series

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Amazing Movie! A REALLY Scary Movie...Unlike Scream :)
Review: WOW! Just WOW! This is an amazing movie! It's REALLY scary and surprising, and UNPREDICTABLE unlike "Scream" and "I Know.." and "I Still Know"...I don't think it even categorizes as the same type of movies!! Simply another level movie... And besides...I can really relate to that movie due to a few reasons, but never mind about that...

GET IT!! WATCH IN A DARK ROOM! PUMP UP VOLUME!

(and I am NOT gonna apologize for my english like almost everyone else does...cause i think it's pretty damn good, me being from israel and all :) )

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: a must see
Review: good movie with suspense. this movie shows you that you cant cheat death and it will come back to get you. kind of a scary thought if that is how life really was and who knows it isnt. very well done movie a must see.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: First class thriller
Review: Despite getting a bad rap by some for not having enough boobs and pecks (some people), this is a first class thriller. It was fun to see in the movie theatre and actually have a sincere horrified reaction. James Wong and Glen Morgan did an excellent job on the screenplay, (I loved their work on The X-Files). Smart and scary. A definite recommendation for those looking for something more than someone in a mask with a knife.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: it has got (look below)
Review: to me,this is one of the best flicks of scary film genre.it has got everything a viewer anticipated.what are those who doesnt like this film anticipating?it has got a good plot,hotshot players,efficacious thrill scenes,nifty references,perplexing denouement.all in all wonderful ,chic,shining film

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great Flick!
Review: After thinking about all the DVD's I brought and watched last year, Final Destination stands out as one of the best. The movies awesome and the DVD is just as impressive. There are tons of extras which you can view and it'll keep you busy for hours.

The movie itself is also good. It's fast paced, suspenseful and filled with in joke humor and it also stands up to repeated viewings. It'll keep you on the edge of your seat!

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Gimmicky and ineffective teen horror fest
Review: There were moments in this film where there was some signs of intelligence and imagination, but they would quickly fizzle, and I was left with the same old movie. I think the main problem I had with the movie was the basic premise, that the time of your death was fated, and there was no way to avoid it. While in a sense this is true, because death does eventually have to come to all of us, it was the way that this movie portrayed it that I thought was stupid.

In a basic nutshell, the movie's plot is as follows, seven people are kicked off an airplane just before it takes off because the lead character has a premonition of the plane exploding shortly after it takes off. The plane does blow up, and the seven people are spared, but then, starting shortly afterwards, they begin dying off anyway, and under mysterious ways, as if since they cheated fate at that moment, they have to pay for it by dying now. Maybe if this were displayed as merely accidents, I could have swallowed this premise, but in the very first death, we're shown that fate is truly killing these people off because they escaped their original death. Very farfetched, and dumb. To illustrate, a spoiler follows where I will illuminate the first death so you know what I'm talking about. The first character to die is in the bathroom looking into the mirror when water mysteriously begins leaking from the toilet's pipe. It slowly flows across the floor to where he's standing, holding a sharp pair of scissors that he's using to clip his nose hairs. We are spared this death as he puts them down, then reaches to turn off the stereo, but he doesn't get electrocuted either. Next, he goes over to check on socks that are drying on a clothesline across the bathtub when he slips in the water, falls on the line, it wraps around his neck, and he falls into the tub. The other end of the line stays attatched above him as he knocks over a contained of shampoo into the tub, making it slippery so he can't stand up. Thus, he strangles to death, and then the water seeps back across the floor to disappear back into the pipe, as if it were never there. Fate, right? Some of the other deaths were even dumber than that one, if you can believe it.

So, the rest of the movie, the other characters work at trying to figure out how their death is coming and how they can avoid it. Some of the actors were actually decent in their roles, but could only do so much with the script they were saddled with. With some more imagination and a decent script, something might have actually have been salvaged from this film, but as it was, it really wasn't worth my time, nor do I think it is worth yours. Oh, and to top it off, the usual reversal ending is thrown in, where when you think it's all finally over, everything turns right back around and comes back at you again. Wow, I never saw that before! Give this movie a miss.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Relentless Tension Gets Your Pulse Rate Going
Review: This movie does not fall into the same category as the "typical" teen horror movies of today. This one is actually a lot smarter then most of it cousins from the same genre. The movie's use of foreshadowing hits you as soon as the opening credits start to roll. You immediately get a sense of impending and inescapable doom...and it follows you throughout the entire movie. The tension is absolutely relentless. The movie's premise is about fate (Death) and whether you are able to escape it or not. Death is the bad guy in this film.

What amazed me about this movie so much was how well it was choreographed. A lot of thought (I mean a lot of thought) was put into each of the death or attempted death scenes. The use of "cause and effect' here is simply genius. The performances by Devon Sawa and Ali Carter are brooding and believable, making you sympathetic to their plight. Tony Todd (CANDYMAN himself) makes a funny/creepy cameo appearance as a mortician/soothsayer. Another ghastly realistic, yet unnerving thing about this movie was the apparent use of actual media footage of the TWA Flight 800 crash off of Long Island that happened very close to where I live a few years back. You'll never want to fly in a plane again after seeing this film.

The "Special Features" section has a several deleted scenes as well as the original ending. Test audiences did not care for the original ending (neither did I) although it probably does follow the film's logic a bit more closely.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Nice try but no cigar
Review: "Final destination" starts out very fine indeed! From the ominous title-sequence, accompanied by Shirley Walkers effective score, until the inventive first murder, the atmosphere is thick with foreboding and threatening omens. And the airplane accident must surely be the most terrifying ever to be put onto celluloid! Scary stuff, to be sure!!! However, the movie goes downhill from there. The murders become more and more unconvincingly contrived (the bus-accident is a very well handled shock, though) and characters, grown-ups as well as adolescents, behave increasingly silly. Anyway, it's well above average for this kind of horror-thriller even if the final isn't as surprising as the filmmakers probably intended. Competent all the way with an unusual premise to begin with and, above all, a very nice surprise from a genre that seemed to have outlived itself after all the latest Screamclones.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: An Insult!
Review: So many people that I know liked this movie... obviously here at Amazon.com as well! But to tell you the truth to me this movie is nothing but a big F.

The trailor made me believe that this is the new "SCREAM" or "I Know What You Did Last Summer"... the beginning of the movie was so perfect! Until the plane crash took place, the movie itself got killed too!

There's so much exaggeration in the story that the viewer's mind can no more accept it and go with it....

Sorry to all the fans of this movie... but as for me I am truly sorry for watching this!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Final Time You'll Watch This Movie
Review: If you look really, really close at the credits youll see "Screenplay by: Xerox machine". It really is just a copy of other movies, and the movie copies itself too. I was actually on the verge of throwing food at the screen. Some people did like the movie (Noone that i know) and your opinion is your opinion, but i cant see how its worth it to get on dvd. To quote me friend "The ending made me feel like i was going to have an aneurism", however you'll judge for yourself, but not buy getting the dvd.

My apologies to those who like the movie... ...and to the screenwriter


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