Final Destination (2000)

Director:

James Wong

Writers (WGA):

Jeffrey Reddick (story)
Glen Morgan (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

17 marzo 2000 (USA)

Genre:

Horror | Thriller | Mystery | Fantasy

Frase comercial:

Most people have dreams. For Alex, this is real.

Plot:

After having a vision of his friends crashing in a plane, he tells them not to get on only later his friends start getting killed one by one.

Plot Keywords:

Rube Goldberg | Hare Krishna | Strangulation | Death | Dream

Awards:

3 wins & 3 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Starts very well, but gets a little too silly toward the end.

Cast

Devon Sawa	...	Alex Chance Browning
Ali Larter	...	Clear Rivers
Kerr Smith	...	Carter Horton
Tony Todd	...	William Bludworth
Kristen Cloke	...	Ms. Valerie Lewton
Seann William Scott	...	Billy Hitchcock
Daniel Roebuck	...	Agent Weine
Roger Guenveur Smith	...	Agent Schreck
Chad Donella	...	Tod Waggner (as Chad E. Donella)
Amanda Detmer	...	Terry Chaney
Brendan Fehr	...	George Waggner
Forbes Angus	...	Mr. Larry Murnau
Lisa Marie Caruk	...	Christa Marsh
Christine Chatelain	...	Blake Dreyer
Barbara Tyson	...	Mrs. Barbara Browning

También conocida como:

Flight 180 (USA) (working title)
Destino final (Spain) (Venezuela) [es]

MPAA:

Rated R for violence and terror, and for language.

Duración:

98 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

English | French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Clasificación:

Philippines:PG-13 | Canada:R (Ontario) (original rating) | Iceland:16 | Canada:18A (Alberta/British Columbia) | Malaysia:18SG | Canada:AA (Ontario) (re-rating) | Argentina:13 | Australia:MA | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:R (Manitoba) | Canada:18 (Nova Scotia) | Chile:14 | Finland:K-16 | France:-12 | Germany:16 | Hong Kong:IIB | Netherlands:16 | New Zealand:R16 | Norway:15 | Singapore:PG | South Korea:18 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) | UK:15 | USA:R (certificate #36987) | Portugal:M/16

Filming Locations:

Squamish, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

Hard Eight Pictures

Trivialidades:

The speech that Tod gives at the funeral is a quote from Marcel Proust.

Goofs:

Factual errors: The plane exploding is too far away from the terminal windows to shatter them. Also, the time it takes for the windows to shatter after the explosion is inconsistent with the speed of sound given the distance.

Quotes:

Carter: Well, we made it.
Clear Rivers: Paris, I can't believe it.
Alex Browning: I just can't believe we got on a plane again, you know what I'm saying?

Movie Connections:

Featured in The House That Freddy Built (2006) (V)

Soundtrack:

Into the Void

Starts very well, but gets a little too silly toward the end.

A minor SPOILER here.

A very good premise that gradually - and inevitably - drifts into teen horror film territory. I say inevitably because there is a group of teens involved so obviously there can be no long-term seriousness. Still, I was a little surprised just how unseriously the movie ends. When one compares the excellent beginning with the ridiculous horror/comedy ending, it is like looking at two different movies. It's a pity that the premise wasn't taken and "assigned" to a cast of adults, i.e. that a "serious" horror film wasn't made. Nevertheless, FD is never dull; even the obviously weaker second half. The flight disaster scenes are terrific, the murder scenes are very good, and there is real interest as to what is going to happen next, in spite of a premonition that the conclusion can't and won't be satisfactory. The conclusion is almost like a mockery of all the previous happenings (the movie turns from horror into the horror comedy genre). Easily the dumbest scene, however, isn't the ending but the way the aggressive teen turns around his car to beat up the movie's main hero, and nearly kills the bicycle-driving teen - while completely ignoring the fact that he nearly killed him and caused an accident! That was really, really dumb.