 | 映画原題: Final Destination [ 映画邦題: ファイナル・デスティネーション ] |  | |  |  | |  | Final Destination : Hollywood Cinema Director : シネマ作品監督紹介 | | Final Destination : Hollywood Actor [CAST・CREW] : 出演ハリウッド俳優(男優・女優・声優)&ミュージシャン・アーティスト紹介 | | Final Destination : 本国映画ライターによる映画の内容 with イングリッシュ : English Description of Story |  |  |  |  | Amazon.com:While hardly a spiritual upgrade of the slasher film, this high-concept teen body-count thriller drops hints of The Sixth Sense into the smart-aleck sensibility of Scream. Helmed by X-Files veteran James Wong, who cowrote the screenplay with longtime creative partner Glen Morgan, Final Destination is an often entertaining thriller marked by an unsettling sense of unease and scenes of eerie imagery. It suffers, however, from a schizophrenic tone and a frankly ludicrous premise. A high school Cassandra, Alex Browning (Devon Sawa of Idle Hands), wakes from a preflight nightmare and panics when he's convinced the plane is doomed. His ruckus bumps seven passengers from the Paris-bound plane, which immediately explodes into a fireball on takeoff, but fate hasn't finished with these lucky few and, one by one, death claims them. Wong brings such a funereal tone to these early scenes of survivor's guilt and inevitable doom that the already far-fetched film threatens to veer into unplanned absurdity. Thankfully, the tale loosens up with a playful morgue humor: one of the victims winds up the splattered punch line to a grim joke and elaborate Rube Goldbergesque chains of cause and effect become inspired spectacles of destruction. Final Destination is a pretty silly thriller when it takes itself seriously, and the filmmakers play fast and loose with their own rules of fate, but once they stick their tongues firmly in cheek, the film takes off with a screwy interpretation of the domino effect of doom. --Sean Axmaker |  |  |  |  | | | |
| Final Destination : 現地ハリウッド市民の評価 : 英語批評版 : Native Evaluation | | | | |  Can You Escape Death... / 2005-12-20
Horror movies experienced a huge comeback in the 1990's and up through today, with successful hits, such as, "Scream", "I Know What You Did Last Summer", even the recent 'Halloween' sequels have fared much better than some of their predecessors. However, as good as many of the recent crop of horror movies have been, they are all pretty much the same due to the villain being a person of flesh and blood, the only difference between them is the method the killer uses to dispatch his/her victims. To shake things up former "X-Files" writer James Wong, crafted a new kind of horror film, one with the smart, sharp writing of the the 'Scream Trilogy', with talented young actors, and very unique death scenes that relied more on shock than on gore. The biggest difference between this movie, "Final Destination" and all of the other successful horror movies of late, is that the killer is not some twisted individual, but rather Death itself, so it's not just a straight horror film, it's also a supernatural thriller.
"Final Destination" begins with a group of seniors in high school preparing to go on their senior trip to Europe, when one of them, a kid named Alex (Devon Sawa), experiences an intense vision of the plane exploding. When the vision ends, Alex tries to write it off as just a bad daydream, until events in reality begin to match up with events in his dream, so Alex freaks out and is removed from the plane along with a small group of kids, some friends and the others are kids that are mad that Alex is being disruptive and were removed for their threats of violence. After being removed from the plane, and witnessing the planes take-off occur without incident, the group believes that Alex was just crazy, but then the plane explodes and Alex's vision becomes frighteningly real. Thinking they just survived a disaster and that their lives are now safe thanks to Alex, the kids begin to adjust back to their lives. However, Death has a different idea for this group, it seems Death has a plan, and Alex has ruined it's plan. Now, Death is on a mission to claim the lives of the kids that got off of the plane in order to bring balance back to Death's grand design. Knowing that he can see when Death is coming due to premonitions, Alex and his soon to be girlfriend, Clear (Ali Larter) attempt to thwart Death and save their remaining classmates.
Unique storytelling, solid performances from the entire cast, and a seamless blend of practical and CGI effects, allows "Final Destination" to rise above many other supernatural horror movies. What really helps "Final Destination" is the fear of when Death will strike again, and since Death is an invisible force for the most part, in some scenes Death is foreshadowed by moving shadows on walls and other objects, this just adds to the thrills and chills. Another wise move on the part of the director, James Wong, is to not use buckets and buckets of blood like most horror movies seem to do these days, instead scare the audience with the unknown, which is way more frightening. While not everyone's type of movie, "Final Destination" should not be written off as just another horror movie in an already long list, but instead is more of a supernatural thriller that will at least deliver a scare or two to any viewer.
"Final Destination" is rated R for violence and language. | | | | | | | | | | | | Fate can kill. / 2005-11-18
If Sir Alfred Hitchcock were still around, he probably would have enjoyed this film. In fact, there is a character in this film named, "Billy Hitchcock" as a homage to Mr. "Good Evening".
Similar to Hitchcock's films, this movie has so many twists and turns you'll find it hard to stay on the edge of your seat. Don't spill the popcorn!
A group of college students are about to board Flight 180 to Paris, France. Alex Chance Browning (Devon sawa) will be on that airplane. He is superstitious and has noticed a few suttle things already. His birthday is on 9-25, the flight leaves at 9:25. He sits in Seat I (9th letter of the alphabet) in Row 25. Alex's dreams have been premonitions. He dreamed the plane exploded. He wakes ups on the plane before take-off and goes berserk. Alex is thrown off the plane. His teacher (Kristen Cloke) and his classmates (Ali Larter, Kerr Smith, Seann William Scott, Chad Donella, Amanda Detmer, Christine Chatelain) go with him into the lobby. The plane takes off with the other group and suddenly the plane does explode. The six people are alive because of Alex.
Thirty-Nine days later, during the memorial, some of Alex's friends are scared to death to be around him. Some are glad to be alive and grateful to Alex. It was Fate.
Fate is about to happen to Tod (Chad Donella). Alex had a piece of magazine paper land on his knee. It read "TOD". In fact, Tod just cut himself shaving and unknown leaking water is behind him on the bathroom floor. Suddenly, Tod slips and a laundry cord strangles him dead. Fate returns.
Fate is like a spider waiting in her web for a fly. The fly could not see the web.
Fate is waiting for more of Alex's friends. They can hide, they can run, should they turn left instead of right?
Fate is going to get them. Who will be the sole survuivor?
Also in the cast: Daniel Poebuck, Tony Todd, Roger Guenveur Smith.
Followed by: FINAL DESTINATION 2 (2003).
FINAL DESTINATION 3 will be released February 10, 2006. | | | | | | | | | | | | On the Morbid Side, but Good / 2005-11-16
I thought this movie did an excellent job for the type of movie that is is, a teen thriller. I also thought it can become very morbid as the movie progresses and the characters are continually dodging or getting checked out by Death. Anymore of the mouse-trap plays would have been overkill - so it was just about right. The screenplay is well thought out, as it tries to define Death in the terms that people have chosen to use for a subject we will never fully understand.
For an entertaining thriller, I give this one two thumbs up. | | | | | | | | | | | |  Ahh Good Clean Death.... / 2005-11-12
I loved it. Great. WOO!! Wow this movie is everything a ummm well good movie... should be? This movie is F***ING GENRELESS!
Final D is about a gropu of kids going to Europe and then on of them has a vision that the plane is going to crash. So he makes everyone get off the plane and go into the lobby. While in the lobby the plane takes off and explodes. HOLY S! So now everyone is freaking out because they cheated death. And slowly death comes back, and doesn't let them get away.... So now everyone is dying and stuff and the survior kid figures out that the order on the plane in which they were sitting is they order they will DYE! OH YES! So now they are trying to run away from something that is in excapable and the only way to live is to cheat it again and make it skip your turn.... holy crap! Great plot line amazing movie BUY BUY BUY
Jared | | | | | | | | | | | | THE FICKLE FINGER OF FATE... / 2005-09-22
This teen scare flick is a cut above most others. Here, it is not some crazed killer which does away with most of the cast but, rather, the fickle finger of fate that selects the next denizen of the great beyond.
The movie starts off happily enough with a class of high school seniors about to depart for Paris. Once they board the plane, our main man, Alex, cannot quite overcome his fear of flying, as he has a premonition that the plane is going to blow up upon takeoff.
His hysteria is such that he, as well as four other students, is escorted off the plane, accompanied by faculty members, one of whom returns to re-board the plane. No sooner does the plane take off, it blows up in mid air. It seems that fate has snatched these lucky individuals out of death's clutches...or has it?
Their relief, at having escaped being blown up on the plane, turns to terror, as it appears that fate will not have them cheat death. The lengths that these young people go to evade fate, and the steps that fate takes to hunt them down one by one, makes for a crafty and clever thriller. Teens and adults alike will enjoy this flick. | | | | | | | |  |  | | |
