Final Destination

The movie offers great chills and thrills, exposing Death's design and how it is played out. Death works in mysterious ways, but gives you clues for you to get ahead of it. That is the meaningless story we are made to believe. One thing which the director has forgotten to put in is,

1. How the hero alone gets visions of Death's plans ??.
2. How is he special enough to know all these ??

If you lose all logic like these, you could very well enjoy the movie. From the beginning you can start noticing the sleak editing and great cinematography along with some special sound effects makes it a top-notch thriller. The next moment is always anybody's guess, but not.

The Story:

A group of seniors from the high-school plan a trip to Paris, France along with some teaching staff. Aboard the plane Alex, our hero, gets visions of plan blowing up mid-air. He freaks out and as a result some of his colleagues and a staff are thrown out of the aircraft and the flight takes off. Now comes the chill part, the plane actually blows out mid-air with no survivors. Everybody is scared to even talk with Alex.

The FBI investigates the theory and lays it to rest. After some 40/50 days, a memorial (at the school) is built in memory of those who died aboard. That's when things heat up. Alex's friend who just then talked to Alex on getting back to their funniest and whackiest selves after their parents get over the tragedy, suddenly is reported to have committed suicide. Only we the audiences know that something strange happened to push him to death (who else but death itself).

The chill part is that there is an indication to Alex when his friend is about to die. In another crazy accident the day after, one more survivor dies. Alex gets a vision for that too. That is when he tries to analyze the crash reports and how they if they had remained boarded in the plane would have died. This gives him a matching pattern on how his schoolmates are dying. And the next on the list is teaching staff Miss Lewton.

In a bizarre accident she also gets killed, the blame goes on Alex as he is present in her house at the time of her death thinking that he should try to save her. If you know the future the future can be changed. Alex goes on hiding, he comes out to meet all the survivors to say his theory and convince them, that they should be able to save themselves.

With the threat of death above their heads, one of them wants to face death and stops at a Rail cross road - threatening to commit suicide. Death plays his part, but Alex finally saves him. Death goes one step further skipping the next on the list and getting the other schoolmate. This scares the hell out of everybody. Now, its Alex's turn to die. He goes on seclusion and tries to lead a very safe life away from incidental danger death might throw upon him.

Death passes away, skipping him to the next on the list, the heroine. In a desperate account to save her life, Alex tries to sacrifice life. Death confused by his effort gives in. Three survivors who should have died are alive. Now all the survivors have been skipped by death in this cycle.

Six months later, they finally make it to Paris and are in a street-side restaurant. Death starts another cycle, to start with Alex ---> Alex survives by a whisker, and the story ends.

There is Final Destination part II made, I haven't yet watched it. After watching it I would like to say more about the movie.

General comments:

The movie is beautifully picturized with superb editing for thrills and chills. The sound effects gets you jumping in your seats. With a little dash of violence, the movie deserves to good watch for all thrille fans.

Don't forget to watch,
1. Initial vision for Alex in which the plane blows up mid-air.
2. The death at the Rail Cross road
3. The climax.