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Final Destination is about a middle of the road high school guy who has a premonition while waiting for the plane to leave that his class is taking to Paris France as a part of their French class.  In this premonition he sees inconsequential things happen followed by a deadly disaster in mid-air.  He comes out of the premonition and the inconsequential things begin to happen.  He freaks out and starts shouting about how the plane is going to explode.  A few people get up and start arguing about his statements and the bunch of them end up thrown off of the plane including both of the teachers.  The airline lets only one of the teachers get back on and after a short discussion the actual French teacher goes.  The plane takes off and does indeed explode.  However unlike the usual story of this sort there is a serious twist.  Death won't take no for an answer and soon the survivors begin dying one by one, and the guy who had the premonition keeps getting them and the fun begins.

This is an excellent movie and an incredible breath of fresh air for the teen horror and actual horror genres.  The acting is very good and there is real suspense in the film including some real pulse pounding scenes.  There is good characterisation, the directing is bang on and the film has good style and substance.  There are some excellent thrills and a number of real chills.  The death scenes are imaginative and quite sinister and once it starts the movie is quite the roller coaster ride.  The characters are mostly likeable, and the believability is quite high.  There was not anything too predictable aside from one of the scenes and it is a lot of fun watching through the false starts to the build up of each death which gives the film some nice added tension on top of that generated by the premise and the character interaction as it becomes clear death doesn't like to be cheated.

( Thank you for reading my review.
Bob Male)

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