Final Destination #3 for the Weekend

Final Destination, opened this week, and was the third biggest movie of the weekend, behind “Erin Brockovitch”, and “Mission to Mars”. The movie, which features Roswell’s Brendan Fehr, is about a young man who has a premonition that the plane he and his classmates are on is going to crash. He and several others are taken off the plane, which does then indeed explode.

The grim reaper then comes after the survivors, taking them one by one, proving that “Death can not be cheated.” Reviews aren’t that great for the film, but seeing Brendan in the first 10 minutes or so, with his new haircut, makes the movie worth a look.

Portions of review: from Film.com

“Wong sets up some spine-tingling shocks. Some of the scenes are elaborate Rube Goldberg contraptions that take some time to unfold. A few, though, spring up just when you let your guard down — including one character’s death that carries the same “holy crap” factor as Samuel L. Jackson’s exit from Deep Blue Sea. Also scoring high on the coolness meter is a too-brief appearance by Tony Todd (a k a the Candyman) as a mortician who knows Alex and Clear are customers who got away once — but will certainly be back.

But as Final Destination progresses, the chain-reaction danger scenes become repetitive, and Wong and Morgan (rewriting a script by Jeffrey Reddick) don’t provide anything else — like character development – to keep us interested. It’s hard to root against Death when the people involved are never brought to life in the first place. ”

Wong sets up some spine-tingling shocks. Some of the scenes are elaborate Rube Goldberg contraptions that take some time to unfold. A few, though, spring up just when you let your guard down — including one character’s death that carries the same “holy crap” factor as Samuel L. Jackson’s exit from Deep Blue Sea. Also scoring high on the coolness meter is a too-brief appearance by Tony Todd (a k a the Candyman) as a mortician who knows Alex and Clear are customers who got away once — but will certainly be back.

and from Mr. Showbiz

“But as Final Destination progresses, the chain-reaction danger scenes become repetitive, and Wong and Morgan (rewriting a script by Jeffrey Reddick) don’t provide anything else — like character development – to keep us interested. It’s hard to root against Death when the people involved are never brought to life in the first place.”