Final Destination

  • Horror
3/17/2000
98
R

No accidents. No coincidences. No escapes. You can't cheat death.

After a teenager has a terrifying vision of him and his friends dying in a plane crash, he prevents the accident only to have Death hunt them down, one by one.

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Revenue:
$112,900,000
Budget:
$23,000,000

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  • John Chard

    I'll see you soon!

    Before taking off for Paris, Alex Browning has a vision that the plane is going to explode. Pannicking he gets off the plane and in the mêlée a teacher and a group of his class mates are forced off the flight, the plane goes on to explode in mid air, killing everyone on board. But pretty soon after the disaster strange accidents start to befall those who got off the plane, it seems that death is out to get them.

    With the number of hugely disappointing teens in peril movies that were made post the success of Wes Craven's hugely successful Scream, it's refreshing to find one that was, well, refreshing. Not purporting to be anything other than a wickedly entertaining piece of horror based nonsense, Final Destination is...

    July 20, 2015
  • Wuchak

    Innovative premise for a 'Dead Teenager Movie,' but the last act isnt compelling

    This first "Final Destination" movie from 2000 was a rather innovative 'Dead Teenager Movie' in that the killer was Death itself, the Grim Reaper. A group of people escape a great tragedy due to a premonition of one of them and the rest of the movie involves the Grim Reaper systematically slaying those who cheated Death in various creative ways. The opening tragedy in this case is a plane crash; in the second film it's a horrible highway pile-up; in the third it's a roller-coaster mishap and so on.

    I've seen (and own) the first four of the currently five-film franchise, but they all tell the same basic story with different characters and a differe...

    October 30, 2018
  • SoSmooth1982

    Love this movie. A person has visions of a disaster or people dieing. All his visions come true. This one is my favorite out of the series.

    May 16, 2023

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