The Final Destination [Blu-ray 3D] Reviews

Final Destination made its debut in 2000, introducing the concept of death as horror movie menace. Instead of a burned child molester with knives for fingers, or a machete wielding maniac in a hockey mask – or any other physical supernatural or natural menace, death itself became the unseen but malevolent force correcting a glitch of fate. It was a neat enough idea brought to the screen by the James Wong and Glen Morgan, two creative forces responsible for co-producing The X-Files and Millennium on television, among other accomplishments. With a concept fitting of The X-Files universe, Wong and Morgan crafted the tale of a teen that has a vision of a plane crash that would kill him and his high-school friends. Acting on that vision, he and his buddies are ejected from the plane – it takes off without them, blows up, and the kids are freaked out but alive. But they should never have lived, and scene after scene is filled with death’s slight hand at play, correcting that bump in mortalities unending road, claiming the lives of the survivors as they try to outsmart and outlive the force death. The film was a surprise success and with four sequels (Final Destination 5 is in theaters now) has banked over a billion dollars in worldwide sales. The Final Destination sits comfortably, if unremarkably, in that successful series.