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Final destination the devil3/12/2024 What happens if someone on board a plane has a premonition of disaster, flees from the aircraft before takeoff, then watches in horror as it explodes once it is airborne? This is the kind of meditation on fate that would seem more at home in a foreign art film than in a teenage slasher movie. Somewhere buried deep in the film's premise lies the kernel of an intriguing idea - and that's Final Destination's lone good point. ![]() ![]() Yet even words like "moronic" and "idiotic" don't do Final Destination justice. In fact, in order to effectively write this review, I'm going to need a thesaurus to come up with synonyms for "stupid". Next to the puerile rubbish that is Final Destination, they're Hawthorne and Dickens. One short week ago, I berated both Mission to Mars and The Ninth Gate for the lack of intelligence evident in their screenplays. ![]() I stand in awe of Final Destination - awe that a motion picture of such unmitigated stupidity could make it to the screen.
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