| | | Death doesn't take no for an answer.|Can you cheat death?
Features: DVD, Platinum Series, Widescreen, Dolby Digital (5.1)
The thriller begins with Alex Browning (Devon Sawa) embarking on a trip to Paris with his high school French class. As the class boards the airplane and Alex takes his seat, he experiences a powerful premonition. He sees the plane explode in a fiery blaze moments after take-off. Panicking, he gets off the plane and insists that everyone do the same. In the chaos that ensues, six others disembark the aircraft. Moments later, Alex's horrific premonition proves tragically accurate. Ironically, even though Alex's intuition saves lives, after the crash both guilt and suspicion plague him. Ominous portents of doom as well as the FBI, dog his every step. Alex comes to believe that somehow, he and the other survivors have briefly cheated death, but will not be able to evade their fate for very long as one by one, these fugitives from fate fall victim to the grim reaper.
"Good creepy fun...with smarts and originality." Glenn Whipp, LA Daily News
"Two thumbs up." Roger Ebert, At The Movies
"A first class edge of your seat thriller!" Paul Wunder, WBAI
Editor's Note
When a teenager has a premonition that the plane he's about to board is going to explode, he throws a fit and gets him and his friends kicked off it. Shockingly, the plane crashes. As the group begins to die mysteriously one by one, the remaining survivors must try to figure out what is going on before they join the other victims. James Wong, migrating from the world of television (THE X-FILES, MILLENNIUM), has crafted a surprisingly intelligent, pulse-pounding thriller.
Plot Summary
Alex Browning (Devon Sawa) and his entire high school class are bound for a trip to Paris, but just before the plane takes off, Alex has a horrifying premonition of the plane exploding. He panics and in the commotion gets thrown off the plane, along with a teacher and several other students, including a jock (Kerr Smith) and a shy girl (Ali Larter). When the plane then explodes as predicted, Alex and the other teens must deal with the guilt of having escaped death while their friends perished. But death is not finished, as first Alex's friend Tod is killed in a bizarre household accident, and then each of the other survivors begins to die, one by one. While a pair of FBI agents suspect Alex of being involved in the deaths, he and the remaining survivors must learn the mysterious secret that surrounds them before death catches up at last. FINAL DESTINATION is a ghoulish supernatural horror film written and directed by two of the writers of THE X-FILES, featuring lots of references to classic horror films of the past and a sinister turn by Tony Todd (CANDYMAN) as an undertaker.
| Features | Documentaries | | Interactive Menus | | English Dolby Digital Surround | | Theatrical Trailer | | DVD-ROM Features | | Web Access | | English Subtitles | | English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround | | Audio Commentary | | Scene Access | | Seperate Film Score Audio Track |
| Entertainment Reviews
 | Final Destination - DVD Review By: James Brundage - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 3/27/2009 5:36 PM | |
"I'm never going to die!" yells one character at a memorial for 39 fellow French-class students who died in a plane crash that, by all rights, he should have died on too. As incredibly laughable as this line is, it provides the big flaw in the basic premise behind Final Destination… making a horror movie about people cheating death does not have much potential. Since you can't kill Death, destroy Death, or send Death screaming back to its home planet, you have a no-win scenario in front of you. No matter what is said or done, everyone ends up getting it....read the full review |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: New Line |
| Release Date: 1/16/2007 |
| Running Time: 98 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2000 | | Catalog ID: 5061 | | UPC: 00794043506123 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English | | Available Subtitles: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 1.85:1 |
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| | Professional Reviews | Total Film
"...This one will have you laughing all the way to the end..." 06/01/2000 p.91Sight and Sound
"...Wong has the potential to be a major director....The film has quite a lot going for it..." 07/01/2000 p.43-4 Los Angeles Times
"...Swift and scary....FINAL DESTINATION unfolds on an unusually intelligent and philosophical plane..." 03/17/2000 p.F10 Chicago Sun-Times
"...[Featuring] a talented cast..." 03/17/2000 p.25 Austin Chronicle 7 of 10
...entertaining teen horror flick... The story certainly has its share of irony and grim humor, but it's imbued much more with the gleeful sadism of Clive Barker... The Final Destination registers more as a mordant, elaborately sub-referenced commentary on the tradition of horror cinema... - James Wong
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