So, with John Denver singing in the background, they start dying one-by-one.Īt least there's some variety to the ways in which the characters die, with Rube Goldberg having choreographed half of the bloodbaths. Instead, Final Destination is intent upon illustrating that, while it's possible for seven people to cheat death by disembarking from a doomed plane, the Devil still demands his due.
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Any existentialist thoughts are quickly squashed. The point of the movie has nothing to do with how the survivors cope with guilt and uncertainty. (In fact, Krzysztof Kieslowski's Blind Chance toyed with similar elements of life, death, and crashing planes.) Of course, it takes about ten minutes for it to become apparent that Final Destination is only going to use this as a hook. What happens if someone on board a plane has a premonition of disaster, flees from the aircraft before takeoff, then watches in horror as it explodes once it is airborne? This is the kind of meditation on fate that would seem more at home in a foreign art film than in a teenage slasher movie.
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Somewhere buried deep in the film's premise lies the kernel of an intriguing idea - and that's Final Destination's lone good point. Yet even words like "moronic" and "idiotic" don't do Final Destination justice. In fact, in order to effectively write this review, I'm going to need a thesaurus to come up with synonyms for "stupid". Next to the puerile rubbish that is Final Destination, they're Hawthorne and Dickens.
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One short week ago, I berated both Mission to Mars and The Ninth Gate for the lack of intelligence evident in their screenplays. I stand in awe of Final Destination - awe that a motion picture of such unmitigated stupidity could make it to the screen.