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Destination: DVD Player
by (movies profile)
Nov 29, 2005
4
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4 people found this review helpful
Do you follow your head or do you follow your gut/heart? That's the dilemma Alex Browning has to face when he has his premonition on the plane before take off. Going to France seems like the opportunity of a lifetime, but if his vision is valid, he'll be burning up in the sky rather than heating up the dance floor with his 40 classmates. Gut takes precedence, & he saves six lives--for the moment. Death hunts them down, anyway, to steal away the borrowed time each of them has.
Final Destination brings up many interesting points. When it is your turn to die, can you cheat Death? If someone saves you, does he/she really save you, or are you walking around in a "Deathbed" like in Stephen King's Insomnia? Do those who mess with the Grim Reaper reap unpleasant side effects themselves, even if they were not part of "Death's plan" originally? Since the beginning of time, debates of fate V. chance have arisen. I'd like to think that through the debates, we've come closer to knowing the truth, but the opposite seems closer to the truth. Questions as vast as the universe have arisen & shall remain after we are gone, taken by the Grim Reaper. After all, it is an inevitable destination for each & everyone of us in the end.
The story does have its flaws. One, when Alex's friend dies supposedly by his own hand, there is evidence that he desperately tries to free the cord from around his neck. However, the parents are crying suicide. Any good detective or police officer would have seen that this was no suicide, & it never would have been labeled as such. The only reason the conclusion "suicide" was written into the story was to play into Alex's guilt. Two, when Clear River & Alex Browning slip into the morgue in the movie, it is clear to see that in real life, this break in could not have happened. Morgues are well secured to prevent this very thing. Again, the only reason the morgue break-in was written into the script was so Alex & Clear could run into the morgue keeper & have their creepy chat.
Seann William Scott, otherwise known as Stifler, acts in this movie. His part is certainly not as funny as his American Pie role, which elevated him to A-list status above & beyond all the other actors in Final Destination. Nevertheless, this movie is quite thought provoking & worthwhile. It just goes to show that a movie can shine when the stars per say do not--& vice versa. Make its final destination your DVD player today! |
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