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Summary: see this movie!
Review: when i was about to see this in the theaters i thought it was gonna have a whole lot of violence and gore but it didnt have that much.there werent that many gross parts but when there was a gross part it was kinda yucky.still a great movie though.good scares,good plot,and good acting.im buying this movie when it comes out on video.
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Summary: Slightly entertaining, victim of instability
Review: I'll admit that I was slightly entertained. The deaths were just so wacky and stupid that the whole theatre was laughing. The plane wreck was the funniest part of the movie. I was rolling on the floor when the walls of the plane started flying off for no apparent reason. What was interesting though was that it tried to be dramatic after the plane wreck. The "survivors" went through an FBI interrogation and actually spoke of feelings and emotions. This was strange coming from an MTV generation, klickish film. It was some of the worst acting I've seen of course and the rest of the movie tried to make up for it by becoming more like the scream films. hmm... Did somebody forget to write the script BEFORE they started filming? The basic formula of the film: 6 or 7 kids get scared from plane wreck and mourn. Slowly, they start to die off. They spend 2 hours boring the theatre to death trying to figure out how to cheat death. Poor film. Poor script. The way the movie ends just tells you how much the writers didn't care anymore and were just ready to cash in. Avoid it unless you can get in free and sleep in the chair. That's what I did. I would be ashamed of myself if I'd put money towards this movie.
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Summary: Freaky and clever
Review: 'Final Destination' is a movie that breaks through almost every cliche ever created from the genres of horror/suspense/thriller/drama. It is the story of a 17-year old named Alex Browning (played vicariously by Devon Sawa, who I see going somewhere) who forsees the plane of his senior class trip exploding before takeoff. Him and a few others are ejected from the plane, which they saw explode from inside the terminal, and are then marked because they had cheated death. Alex tries to solve the pattern so they can cheat death again. I can't say much about this film because absolutely *nothing* can be ruined. The deaths scenes are fascinating and extremely elaborate. The squeamish and/or faint of heart should probably steer clear of this one. The fear of the characters seems real, because they all are sure that one will die next but never who or how. How it happens is unbelievably clever every single time. Sometimes you think you can see the method of end coming, but you will more than likely be wrong, which is the beautiful part. The suspense is nerve wracking and heart skipping, and sometimes so surprising that I am still shocked. Besides the suspense, this film also offers a deeply investigated look into the world of death. Alex tries to decipher the pattern and attempt to stop death from taking the next person. It is an intelligent premise, and is presented with impressive results. 'Final Destination' is not a feel good movie, but does succeed as a crowd pleaser because of its ability to astound and be staggeringly original.
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Summary: BOR-
Review: -ING. OK if you have nothing else to watch. Starts out fairly interestingly, ends up sludge. Tounge in cheek or not, it's just not a good film. Nothing you haven't seen before, and done better. Part 2 is a little slicker.
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Summary: "Let's go take a $#!^"
Review: This movie is awesome! It was cleverly written, with very gruesome death scenes, which I like.
This movie's about Death's individual plan for all of us, and it warns us to live life as if you were alive (confusing, i know).
It starts off with a big class of high schoolers on theie way to Paris. One of the kids, Alex,(Sawa) gets a premonition about the plane exploding. He makes this very clear, and gets thrown off along with a few other kids. Then, as soon as the plane departs, it explodes! (Go figure) Several months later, the survivors all start dying in "freak accidents", or the police say so. Something is killing the survivors. Will someone find out what's going down, before they all do?
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Summary: Uneven, but at-times hilarious horror flick
Review: Good grief! Where's the body count at the bottom of the screen? As a typical teen-audience aimed horror flick, "Final Destination" teeters between the extremely predictable (ok, we KNOW they're all gonna 'get it', now don't we?), and the truly entertaining (the bus scene...you HAVE to see the movie for this reason alone, if for NOTHING else...). The writers and production team must have had a field day planting and plotting the various little, almost subliminal 'clues' throughout the flick...which for me was the highlight, almost reminiscent of old Warner Bros. cartoons, where for example, several fast, whirling edits would reveal all the implements of, say, Daffy Duck's impending doom. Most of the death scenes have a comic, stumbling 'snowballing' effect to them that works, for the most part (the train scene, however, fell a bit 'flat' for me).... While my partner was willing to be a tad more 'forgiving' of the movie than I was, I do have to agree with him that it's leaps and bounds above most of the other teen-exploitation nonsense of the last several years. We both enjoyed it for what it was...sheer entertainment. It survives alone on it's humor.
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Summary: tired of teenager slasher movies? here's a dvd for you.
Review: What sets this teenager slasher movie apart (and above) the others is the villain. After endless Jasons, Freddys, Michael Myers, Scream Ghosts, it's hard to imagine a creative new bad guy. Enter "Death". In the hands of lesser film-makers, we would have had to sit through a whole flick of a cloaked, dark figure a la, "I know What You Did Last Summer", but here we get to see, or experience, death as a natural force. Because you can't see the figure, and because it can be ubiquitous, it makes the "shock" killings all that more shocking. This is a suprisingly tight, well-made movie. It's perhaps no surprise that it's the brain child of X-Files alumni Wong and Morgan. While other reviews have balked at the mix of humor and gore, I think it plays really well. It doesn't fall into pastiche comedy-horror, but rather titilates the audience with a teasing sense of humor. While you can assure yourself that there's no Freddy or Jason under your bed and get a good night's sleep, this movie makes you realize death is on its way and there's no escape. How confrontational is that for a teenager slasher? Kudos to the film makers for something different and enjoyable. Also, the DVD provides the original ending and a documentary on the "test screening" process and why the ending got changed. One of the best DVD supplements I've seen.
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Summary: Fun...Gory...Imaginative
Review: Since when did reviewing a movie mean "tell the entire storyline of the film in 2 or three paragraphs"? I just don't understand people who feel the need to spell out the entire plot of a film in order to review it. First of all, if you are reading reviews of a teen oriented horror film, you probably aren't too worried about the plot. And for a change, Final Destination has a cool little story, that is better left seen than read. If you don't know what the storyline is......good. Go into the movie with a vague notion that it's a pretty imaginative and fun splatter flick and let the story unfold. The special effects are great, the acting is above grade for the usual B-Movie, and the opening sequence will definately root you to your chair for the rest of the flick. If you like horror & sci-fi movies you will enjoy Final Destination.
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Summary: I run to death, and death meets me as fast
Review: Panicky flyers be warned: the mid-air explosion that gets this shocker's plot rolling is a nasty piece of work, far scarier than any of the subsequent spooky goings-on. Alex Browning (Devon Sawa) is going on a high school trip to Paris with his friends. But as they board the plane he has a terrifying vision of an accident, and makes such a fuss that he's thrown off the plane; five classmates and a teacher also wind up sitting out the flight. To their collective horror, the plane blows up a few minutes after takeoff. Then the survivors start dying in freakish accidents, and Alex comes to realize that Death, a piss-poor loser, is coming for all of them. Co-written by first-timer Jeffrey Reddick and X-FILES veterens Glen Morgan and James Wong, this TWILIGHT ZONE-ish shocker is serviceable enough, if you come to it with sufficiently modest expectations; its virtues are all in the peripheral touches. Unlike most horror-movie teens, Alex and his friends genuinely try to grapple with the emotional fallout of premature death and survivors' guilt; their thinking is painfully shallow, but hey, at least the screenwriters are trying. The accidents that claim the survivors are oddly preoccupied with water and electricity---someone must have been traumatized at an early age by those vintage late-night PSAs that warned of the dangers lurking in ordinary homes---well, at least some of deaths are staged with economy and flair. A word of advice to horror buffs-turned-filmakers: don't name ALL of your charactors after classic horror directors and actors---Browning, Dreyer, Waggner, Lewton, Schreck, Murnau, Chaney, Wiene...etc unless you're dead sure your work campares favorably to theirs.
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Summary: The Grim Reaper takes His due...
Review: his film could just as easily be named "Murphy's Law" for the undercurrent dynamic occurring, composing the entire plotline.
A planeful of high school students are off to France - as they prepare to take off, one of the students receives a morbid vision while dozing off, that the craft will dismember & burn. He awakens startled by the lightmare, to find that he indeed is on the same plane, as a couple of subtle cues are revealed to confirm his vision. He panics, & is escorted off the plane along with his friend, a nemesis-antagonist, his girlfriend, & a beautiful solitary girl who decides, luckily for her, to heed his warnings, although she also has a touch of clairevoyant sensitivity herself. As they are detained by security, they all witness the said aircraft explode in the air. Subsequently, all those that are involved with the clairevoyant meet with a gruesome fate.
Of note, one girl, depressed by the events, seeks to alleviate her mind with a mugful of vodka, but the mug mysteriously forms minute cracks which leaves a trail from the kitchen t the den area, where lays the PC - several drops cascade into the monitor causing a spark, & eventually an explosion, which sends a shard of glass into her neck, causing her to bleed profusely, upon which she slips & slides on her own blood, stumbling towards the kitchen, where the cutlery falls into disarray; at this point, a shower of sparks ignites the trail of vodka, & the fire persues her until she is aflame, after which a butcher knife dislodges from its holster, dropping down, impaling her.
Such scenes typify the ghoulish deaths throughout the film, all of which are deserving of a D.O.A. {Drac's Overkill Award}. No matter how much each survivor of the plane crash tries, The Grim Reaper takes His due in abundance.
Also mentionable, is the death scene of his friend, who is hanged by the bathtub shower cord - the `water' which he slipped & fell upon seemed to follow him around the bathroom as an sentient organism.
The clairevoyant seems cursed from the beginning, a complete blight / pariah.
His one-time nemesis now recognizes that they must cooperate together to attempt to supercede the morbid course of events, but is eventually decapitated after urinating on himself after being rescued from a deadly game of chicken with a train. As hard as they tried, the seatbelt would not disengage, & even the locks settled in to ensure his demise, but at the last moment, the clairevoyant managed to rescue him.
And the very last victim is spared only because of the self-sacrifice of the clairevoyant, thus breaking the chain.
This film is recommended, as it is highly amusing, & will give one a couple of moments to ponder. The death scenes are excellent, particularly in the various twists & turns upon which they come about, & leaves one ironically prognosticating what the next great overkill will be.
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