Please Make This *The* Final Destination

Advantages: Good premise
Disadvantages: Lack of elaborate deaths, no imaginative plot like others, doesn't live up to the hype

...While at the races, Nick (Bobby Campo) has a shocking premonition about a horrific crash that will happen and in turn will lead to all the other drivers crashing and killing numerous innocent people in the audience. This leads Nick to a state of panic and in this state he mistakenly hits another member of the audience, a scrap entails and security escorts Nick, his girlfriend, two friends and a group of other audience members out of the area. Nick tells them about the impending crash which happens seconds later. Unnerved by the events, Nick wants to forget about what happened and get on with his life however when the survivors begin to die one by one, suspicion is aroused that maybe the subsequent events aren?t just shocking coincidences and are something a bit more sinister? Being a big fan of the Final Destination trilogy I had...

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Review of The Final Destination

Deadly Destination

Advantages: A taut thriller with loads of scares
Disadvantages: The cast are nothing more than adequate

...Taking the horror genre to a whole new premise, Final Destination introduces the villain as Death itself. Devon Sawa stars as Alex, a high school student who is preparing to go to Paris on a field trip with his class. From the opening credits, all the signs point towards something sinister. And as Alex gets on the plane, he finds himself thrust into a mid air explosion. Moments later though, he wakes up and discovers that it was nothing more than a dream. However, convinced it was more like a premonition, he and a handful of students get into a brawl and are thrown off the plane. As they are rounded up in the departure lounge, they watch in horror as his premonition is realised and the plane explodes moments after taking off. The police are instantly convinced that Alex must be part of some conspiracy to blow the plane up, and as...

bilbob20 23.04.2007 · Read review
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Review of Final Destination (DVD)

Destination Death

Advantages: A gorefest, little details that bring the film together
Disadvantages: No story line to get my teeth into, some of the acting was a bit wooden

...more visions of what's going to happen, Alex starts to get premonitions and a feeling that something isn't quite right. When a news report into the crash comes on tele, Alex spots the connection. When the fireball gutted the plane, it travelled in a route that made direct targets of the seven survivors and according to their seating plan they are all dying off in a particular order. All I'll say about this part of the story line is it was stupid, obviously the writers of Final Destination couldn't think of a plausible reason to start killing teenagers so they padded the film out with a silly explanation. End of plot. A quick recap: lots of blood, lots of death and not much story line to get your teeth into. OK so that's the story. Doesn't look too good on paper does it? It's basically a teen horror flick (think Scream, I Know...

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Destinations

Advantages: A quick read
Disadvantages: Confusing as there were too many characters

...Sheila O'Flanagan is a successful Irish writer, and before writing she had a very successful career in banking. She writes a column for the Irish Times and, prior to writing 'Destinations', she had also written 8 hugely successful novels, including 'Caroline's Sister', 'Isobel's Wedding', and 'He's Got to Go'. Destinations is a novel which revolves around the Dart train system in Ireland. There are 19 chapters in the book, each one has a title with a train station alongside it, such as 'Saturday at 12' - Killiney, or 'Charlie's Dress' - Dalkey. Each chapter revolves around a different character, or characters, such as Greg and Helena - they are the characters of the 'Saturday at Twelve' chapter. Greg has had a fling at his office Christmas party which, inevitably, Helena has found out about and has since thrown Greg out. THey...

jules.34 23.05.2008 · Read review
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Review of Destinations - Sheila O'Flanagan

Destination AWESOME!

Advantages: As good as being there
Disadvantages: No fireworks.

...I was at the 1st night of these concerts so I can give a pretty good opinion of how this varies to the performance given on the night I attended. Essentially what your hearing on this cd is the music that was recorded on the night Mike Mansfield shot his Destination Docklands Video. Track 1 is a short intro version of Revolutions which I don't remember being played on the night itself at all. Track 2 is Industrial Revolutions Overture which was recorded on the 2nd of the 2 nights (I can tell because theres no 2nd set of cheering near the start when they screwed up getting one of the projections back to front then upside down) Track 3 is Industrial Revolutions parts 1-3 and these sound very good, the crowd cheering is mainly reactions to projections & some fireworks, you are hearing the console master version of the music so you won...

atytyut2434 21.07.2008 · Read review
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Destination Moon.

Advantages: A quite good old movie
Disadvantages: not dated well

...Destination Moon. Getting to the moon before the Russians and building a base is the general plot line but the film delivers so much more. Charles Cargraves is a rocket engineer who believes his last rocket was sabotaged so he goes private and soon he has built his second rocket which he gets to the moon. Along the way the saboteurs will try again, he will fight the red tape but will win through. The movie won an Oscar in 1951 for its special effects but somehow that seems to have been forgotten. The science in the movie is actually very accurate apart from the nuclear propulsion, but otherwise it is quite a factual film. We are facts such as the problems of G force, Airlocks, weightlessness nd the Moons gravity being 1/6th that of Earth. The acting is good and it is shot in glorious Technicolor. Classed as...

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The Final Final Destination?

Advantages: A fun, fear filled ride
Disadvantages: predictable and no advance in the franchise at all

...Final Destination 3 is an unexpected continuation of the franchise first brought to us by Wong and Morgan (of X-Files fame) back in 1997. The original was a hip, wise cracking blast. A mixture of horror and thriller blended perfectly to make a hugely entertaining film that kept you rooted to the edge of your seat biting your nails. The sequel, which appeared a few years later, eschewed the horror side for vicarious thrills only a scary thriller can bring you, but this time it went more for the comedy thriller genre and as such made FD2 a nice surprise and not what was expected. The question that passed my lips on hearing of the plans for a third outing was which way was the third one going to go? FD3 reverts back to the original in casting by making them predominantly college aged and not the mix of ages from 2. The premise is...

Ailran 09.09.2006 · Read review
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Review of Final Destination 3 (DVD)

Final Destination? I Hope So.

Advantages: Good CGI, Plenty of gore
Disadvantages: No storyline, Bad acting, No sense of narrative progression

...Final Destination 3 Review DIRECTOR: James Wong YEAR OF RELEASE: 2006 GENRE: Horror LANGUAGE: English Main Cast: Mary Elizabeth Winstead - Wendy Christensen Ryan Merriman - Kevin Fischer Kris Lemche - Ian McKinley Alexz Johnson - Erin Ulmer Sam Easton - Frankie Cheeks Jesse Moss - Jason Robert Wise Gina Holden - Carrie Dreyer Texas Battle - Lewis Romero Chelan Simmons - Ashley Freund Crystal Lowe - Ashlyn Halperin Amanda Crew - Julie Christensen --The Film Itself-- For many years, the idea of teenagers getting picked off one by one by a maniac killer has been a popular convention in the horror genre. People sit down every day in order to watch popular films of this respect such as Halloween and Nightmare on Elm Street, and the same became true of the Final Destination franchise when it began in 2000. When...

RazzaLazza 25.08.2006 (26.08.2006) · Read review
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Review of Final Destination 3 (DVD)

Will They Reach Their Final Destination??

Advantages: A good story, A Good young cast, Not the typical Slasher movie
Disadvantages: Kerr Smith, Might not appeal to classic horror fans

...I wouldn?t class myself as a fan of the conventional Horror films. If I?m going to be watching a horror film I like it to be a little different from the rest. That?s where Final Destination comes in. I was talked into seeing this just after its UK cinema release. If I?m honest I wasn?t expecting much from it. A fairly unknown cast and adverts that really didn?t appeal to me. Of course since that day I have actually bought it on DVD, so that probably gives away what I actually thought about it. The story is a little different to your run of the mill horror film. It starts with a group of students about to embark on their senior class trip to France. As they all bored the plane Alex (Devon Sava) starts to notice odd things about the plane, little bits of damage here the odd bolt lose there. When the flight takes off it starts to...

Andy.mack 03.05.2004 · Read review
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Review of Final Destination (DVD)

The Final Destination in 3D - Death's final outing is a good one

Advantages: 3D is fully used, bloody like a horror should be, brilliant ending that wraps up the films well
Disadvantages: 3D is really the only standout feature, acting only okay, some dodgy effects masked by 3D

...As a fan of the final destination films I am pleased to say that the latest offering does not disappoint though I am sure a large measure of that is down to the fact that it is in 3D. In my opinion there is no question that making horrors in 3D works - there is no better genre to take advantage of 3D with various weapons, blood and guts flying out at you - and in this case they have used the 3D format exceptionally well. To give an example, and without spoiling any of the plot, when one of the victims has their head destroyed by a flying tyre the impact of the 3D is truly felt with the trye screaming towards you and then bits of her brain flying all over the place. The plot is, however, pretty much the same as all the previous installments though this one does end very well and in my mind ties up all the previous films - this has...

thepreacherman 01.09.2009 · Read review
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