Final Destination (2000)
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After a teenager survives a catastrophic plane explosion by following a premonition, he and his friends find themselves hunted by a relentless force of death.
The story
High school student Alex Browning boards Volée Airlines Flight 180 for a senior trip to Paris. Before take-off, Alex has a premonition that the plane will explode in mid-air, killing everyone on board. When the events from his vision begin to occur in reality, he panics, leading to a confrontation that results in him and several others being removed from the plane just before it explodes. Following the disaster, the survivors are interrogated by FBI agents while Alex realizes that Death is attempting to claim the lives of those who were meant to die in the accident, forcing the survivors to confront the consequences of their survival.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
After a group of students is removed from Flight 180 following Alex's premonition of a crash, the plane explodes. The survivors are later confronted by mortician William Bludworth, who explains that by cheating death, they have disrupted its plan, and it is now hunting them in the order they were meant to die. The survivors face a series of escalating, often gruesome, accidents: Terry is hit by a bus, Ms. Lewton dies in a kitchen explosion, and Billy is killed by a piece of metal from a train. Alex attempts to calculate the sequence of deaths to save his friends, successfully rescuing Clear from a car explosion and Carter from a train. However, the final scene reveals that by saving Clear, Alex shifted the sequence, making himself the next target. The film ends with a sign falling toward him, and Carter pushing him out of the way, only for the sign to swing back toward Carter.
- First release year
- 2000
- Runtime (minutes)
- 98
- Production countries
- United States
- Original languages
- English
- Directors
- James Wong
- Writers
- Glen Morgan · screenplay; James Wong · screenplay; Jeffrey Reddick · screenplay; Jeffrey Reddick · story
- Cast and characters
- Devon Sawa · Alex Browning; Ali Larter · Clear Rivers; Kerr Smith · Carter Horton; Tony Todd · William Bludworth; Seann William Scott · Billy Hitchcock; Amanda Detmer · Terry Chaney; Chad Donella · Tod Waggner; Kristen Cloke · Valerie Lewton
- Genres
- supernatural horror; horror; horror thriller
- Themes
- Fate; Inevitability of death; Premonition
- Tone and mood
- tense; eerie; suspenseful
- Setting
- A series of locations including a plane, a funeral home, a café, a train crossing, a secluded cabin, and Paris.
- Premise and plot tags
- Survival; Supernatural; Chain reaction; Death's design
- Source material / true-story basis
- Spec script
- Franchise connections
- Final Destination
- Reception
- The film received mixed reviews from critics but was noted for its suspense and the lead performance by Devon Sawa. It was a commercial success.
- Reported review scores
- Rotten Tomatoes · score: 51% · scale: percentage · review count: 164; Metacritic · score: 39 · scale: 100 · review count: 28
- Awards and nominations
- Saturn Award · Best Horror Film · Win; Young Hollywood Award · Breakthrough Performance by a Female · Win; Blockbuster Entertainment Awards · Favorite Actor in Horror (Internet Only) · Nomination; Blockbuster Entertainment Awards · Favorite Actress in Horror (Internet Only) · Nomination; Canadian Society of Cinematographers Awards · Best Cinematography in a Theatrical Feature · Nomination
- Production trivia
- The film's characters are named after famous horror figures.; The script was originally intended for an episode of The X-Files.
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