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Play trailer 2:14 Poster for Final Destination R Released Mar 17, 2000 1h 38m Horror Mystery & Thriller Play Trailer Watchlist
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Alex Browning (Devon Sawa), is embarking on a trip to Paris. Alex experiences a premonition -- he sees the plane explode moments after leaving the ground. Alex insists that everyone get off the plane and 7 people including Alex, are forced to disembark. All watch as the plane actually explodes in a fireball. He and the other survivors have briefly cheated death, but will not be able to evade their fate for very long. One by one, these fugitives from fate fall victim to the grim reaper.
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Despite a panel of X-Files' alums at the helm and a promising premise, flighty performances and poor execution keep Final Destination from ever taking off.

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Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly Rated: B+ Sep 7, 2011 Full Review Joe Leydon Variety Generates a respectable amount of suspense and takes a few unexpected turns while covering familiar territory. Mar 27, 2009 Full Review Time Out This portentous chiller is a nasty piece of work. Jan 26, 2006 Full Review Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid The dialogue, by Glen Morgan, James Wong and Jeffrey Reddick, is, for the most part, thoughtful and the death scenes are delightfully gruesome. A Rated: 3/4 Apr 23, 2025 Full Review Brian Bisesi Horror Movie Club Podcast Final Destination is a vapidly entertaining film, with sleek production and effects making up for a lackluster plot and bland characters. The film’s bread and butter are its elaborate deaths, and on this front it mostly delivers. Rated: 3/5 Apr 9, 2025 Full Review Lane Mills InSession Film Classics like Final Destination that still guide the hearts and minds of fans and creatives to this day. Rated: B+ Mar 20, 2025 Full Review Read all reviews

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Travis B Excellent movie with a new direction in Horror. No boogeyman, no bad guys, just some dumb teenagers vs the nature of Death Miss you Tony T!!!! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 04/22/25 Full Review Raymond C Underrated. As this plot was the first of its kind. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 04/21/25 Full Review Emily M Full of gore, violence and creative deaths. I do love that aspect. It's not a bad movie, but not my favourite of the franchise. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 04/10/25 Full Review Ash P Before we get into this review, I will go ahead and say that to be fair, I'm not the biggest fan of these movies, but at the least when given the chance, I can appreciate them from an average viewpoint. But for now, we go into the film that started the franchise. With this film, I always found it to be in the middle. Not terrible. Not great. I just found it fine. I will say the kills were great and creative, the score for the movie was good, and the acting was also great. Of course, death's design can be well paced when cheating it from a teenager's premonition of a bigger event before the events that take the survivors out one-by-one. What keeps the film going is the thrill of what comes next as death, being a malevolent force that it is, tracks down and pulls the strings of its next victim. With the characters, I always thought of them being your usual high school drama set of troupes like you have your outcast, you bully, your best friend as they are written as such. I do give Alex credit along with Clear that they are better written for the script that they were given. Even enjoyed Alex the most as he's learning more about his premonitions while piecing together death's plan. I'll admit, one of the characters, Carter mostly, is one of my nitpicks. Being more of a whiner when he's nothing more but the jerk despite being played by a good actor. Like if I were to see him approach me, I wouldn't hold back to smack him back. But I digress. Also nice to see Tony Todd on the screen, rest in peace, even if it's just one screen being the coroner. I give this film six and a half car on the train tracks out of ten. 6.5/10. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 04/16/25 Full Review Agga Myint M The best final destination movie. I don't understand why people hate this franchise final destination franchise is one of the horror movies that actually make me scared. Also so excited for the bloodlines Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/25/25 Full Review r96 s 'Final Destination' is top entertainment! I've been meaning to watch this franchise for ages - happy to get started. The only thing I know coming in is there's some sort of scene with a car driving behind a (presumably unsafely loaded) lorry? Presumably that's in a sequel. This is the first time I've watched Devon Sawa at this age of his, I know from watching 온라인카지노추천's 'Chucky' that people always mention this film(s?) when talking about him. He is a well chosen lead, for sure. Ali Larter is solid too. Interesting to see Seann William Scott involved. Some of the characters behind that trio are iffy, in terms of how they are written/portrayed. Kerr Smith's Carter is mostly annoying, for example. Larter's Clear is written a bit odd around the middle part too. The bit with touching the thing (no spoilers) with Kristen Cloke's character is also silly. To be fair, it is a movie designed to be entertaining rather than being something super intricate and highly logical. It does deliver in regards to the former, the effects are great and the deaths do get nicely creative. It is well paced as well, a 90 minute run time is perfect for a film like this. I will say that the ending seemed a bit off to me (if still fun and fine), it kinda felt like the filmmakers didn't know how to end it given how the 'skipping' works and obviously they wanted to set a sequel. It's not a big issue whatsoever, it did seem a little roughly concluded though. All in all, as you can see from my rating, I did love watching it. Interested to see how the follows-up turned up, I'd imagine it's a mixed bag (at best) but time will tell. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/18/25 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Alex Browning (Devon Sawa), is embarking on a trip to Paris. Alex experiences a premonition -- he sees the plane explode moments after leaving the ground. Alex insists that everyone get off the plane and 7 people including Alex, are forced to disembark. All watch as the plane actually explodes in a fireball. He and the other survivors have briefly cheated death, but will not be able to evade their fate for very long. One by one, these fugitives from fate fall victim to the grim reaper.
Director
James Wong
Producer
Glen Morgan, Craig Perry, Warren Zide
Screenwriter
Jeffrey Reddick, Glen Morgan, James Wong, Jeffrey Reddick
Distributor
New Line Cinema
Production Co
New Line Cinema, Zide-Perry Productions, Hard Eight Pictures
Rating
R (Terror|Language|Violence)
Genre
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Mar 17, 2000, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Apr 26, 2010
Box Office (Gross USA)
$53.3M
Runtime
1h 38m
Sound Mix
Surround, Dolby Digital, DTS, SDDS
Aspect Ratio
Flat (1.85:1)
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