Final Destination kicked off a franchise full of catastrophic visions, creative deaths, and lots of mysteries, but there are some harsh realities that come to light when rewatching this movie. Back in 2000, Final Destination was released, directed by James Wong and written by Glen Morgan, Wong, and Jeffrey Reddick. Final Destination was initially a spec script for an episode of The X-Files, but Reddick was eventually persuaded to turn it into a movie – and it was a great decision, as it became one of the defining horror movies of the 2000s.
Final Destination follows Alex Browning (Devon Sawa), who is traveling with his friends and classmates to Paris. Before the plane takes off, he has a vision of the plane exploding midair, sending him into a panic. Alex, his friend, some classmates, and one teacher are taken off the plane, which then explodes just like in Alex’s vision. However, not long after, they begin to die one by one in truly bizarre “accidents”, and Alex learns that Death is coming after them. Final Destination is still one of the best supernatural horror movies, but some harsh realities become evident when rewatching it.
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Tod Has The Most Tragic Story In Final Destination
Tod Lost His Brother In The Plane Explosion
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Among those traveling with Alex to Paris on Flight 180 are Alex’s best friend Tod (Chad Donella) and his brother George (Brendan Fehr). When Alex panics and Carter (Kerr Smith) tries to fight him, they are taken off the plane along with Carter’s girlfriend, Terry (Amanda Detmer), classmates Billy (Seann William Scott) and Clear (Ali Larter), and teacher Ms. Lewton (Kristen Cloke). George then tells Tod to go check on Alex, and so he also gets off the plane. However, none of them are allowed to go back to the plane, and so they witness the explosion from the airport.
Unlike the rest of the survivors, who mourn their friends, Tod is also mourning his brother.
Unfortunately, this means that George dies in the explosion, and this has a direct impact on Alex’s relationship with Tod and his family, made even worse by how Tod’s father tells Alex to look after them when they get to the airport. Tod’s death is even attributed by the authorities and media to the survivors’ guilt caused by George’s death, and unlike the rest of the survivors, who mourn their friends, Tod is also mourning his brother.
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Final Destination Starts The Franchise’s Biggest Mystery (That Ended Up Hurting The Saga)
The Sequels Only Make It More Confusing
Tod is the first of the Flight 180 survivors to die according to Death’s design. Tod’s death is made to look like a freak accident, in which he ends up hanged in his shower. Alex and Clear know there’s something off with Tod’s death, and they sneak into the funeral home to examine Tod’s corpse. There they come across mortician William Bludworth (Tony Todd), who tells them about Death’s plan and how it’s now claiming the lives of those who escaped the plane explosion.
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Final Destination never reveals why Bludworth knows so much about Death’s design, which has led to the belief that Bludworth is Death itself, and this marked the beginning of the franchise’s biggest mystery. However, the rest of the Final Destination movies have only made Bludworth’s role more confusing, but Final Destination Bloodlines is expected to finally address all the mysteries around this peculiar character.
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Bludworth Is A Lot Creepier Than I Remembered
Bludworth Is A Mystery, But He’s Also Creepy
Speaking of William Bludworth, he’s definitely the franchise’s creepiest character. As always, Tony Todd’s presence is quite commanding, and his deep voice adds an extra mystery and fear to the character. It’s also the fact that nothing about Bludworth is known except that he works as a mortician and knows a bit too much about Death, to the point of knowing about its design. However, it’s Todd’s performance and all the questions surrounding Bludworth that make him a lot creepier than I remembered.
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Carter Is A Horrible Person In Final Destination
Sorry, But Carter Isn’t A Good Friend Or A Good Boyfriend
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Carter plays a key role in the first act of Final Destination, as if it wasn’t for his impulsive and aggressive behavior, he, Terry, and others wouldn’t have been saved from the plane’s explosion. Carter fights Alex when he freaks out after having the vision as he believes he’s joking, and it’s because of that that they are taken off the plane. However, from the moment he first appears on-screen, Carter shows how much of a bully he is.
He not only makes fun of Billy, but he’s very aggressive with everyone, including Terry, and his ego is so big that he refuses to admit that Alex saved his life. Carter is truly vulnerable after Terry’s death, and though he ends up mending his relationship with Alex and Clear at the end of Final Destination, that doesn’t change that, before Terry’s death, he was a horrible person.
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Alex & Clear’s Romance Lacks Development
Their Relationship Is A Bit Hard To Believe
Clear is the stereotype of the mysterious, “weird” girl nobody talks to but who ends up becoming close to the main character. However, her bond with Alex lacks development and only leaves the audience wondering how and when they went from friends to romantic partners. Clear is the only person who believes Alex about his vision, and she voluntarily gets off the plane. Clear also shows her gratitude to Alex at the memorial service and helps him investigate Tod’s death and Death’s design.
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When Alex realizes that the next one on Death’s list is Clear and not him, he rushes to save her so Death will skip her. Final Destination then cuts to Alex, Clear, and Carter in Paris, celebrating that they successfully cheated Death, only for Death to surprise them. In this scene, it’s implied that Clear and Alex are now romantically involved as they hold hands, but it still feels strange given the lack of development of their relationship. It would have made more sense if they had become best friends in the end, but instead, they were a couple.
In an alternate ending of Final Destination, Alex and Clear have sex and Clear becomes pregnant.
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Some Of Final Destination’s Deaths Are Too Ridiculous
Very Creative, But Some End Up Being Funny
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The core of the Final Destination movies are the bizarre, over-the-top, but creative deaths of the characters and the chain of events that leads to these. Deaths like those of Terry and Billy are shocking and truly horrible, but there are others that are either so elaborate that they lose all credibility or they are done in ways that make them laughable. Tod’s death by hanging is tragic, but parts of the chain that lead to it are a bit too ridiculous.
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The same happens with Mrs. Lewton’s death, where pouring vodka and ice on her hot coffee mug leads to a house fire and explosion, but not before shrapnel from a short-circuit on her computer flies into her neck and she’s impaled on the chest by kitchen knives. However, ridiculous deaths also became part of the charm of the Final Destination movies, so there’s a good balance of shocking deaths and some you can laugh at.
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Death’s Design Makes No Sense In Final Destination
There Are Some Big Inconsistencies In Death’s Design
Thanks to Bludworth, Alex and Clear learn that Death has a design, and if they figure it out, they might find a way to cheat it and survive. Alex eventually realizes that Death is coming after them in the order they would have died on the plane… but this doesn’t really make sense. The plane begins to break on the opposite side from where Tod and Alex are sitting, yet, for some reason, Tod is the first to die and Alex is the last (this is in the original plan, as Clear eventually becomes the last one of the survivors to die).
Mrs. Lewton is the second one, despite having been seated far from Tod and Alex, and the map is pretty much a mess. Death’s design and order are a lot clearer in the rest of the movies in the Final Destination series, so at least they learned from the confusing order of victims on Flight 180.
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Final Destination’s Plane Scene Is Over-The-Top, But Enough To Make You Paranoid
Final Destination Has Traumatized A Generation
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Going back to the topic of bizarre and over-the-top deaths, it can’t be denied that the explosion of Flight 180 is too extreme. Of course, this is key to appealing to the very common fear of flying and the intrusive thoughts of what can happen once you board a plane – but the chain of events is definitely too much. However, this is exactly why the explosion of Flight 180 is still one of the most traumatizing horror scenes of the 2000s, enough to make anyone paranoid about flying.
The explosion of Flight 180 was only the beginning of many other over-the-top but still traumatizing death sequences in the Final Destination franchise, most notably the log truck one at the beginning of Final Destination 2. Surely, others, like the car race in The Final Destination and the bridge in Final Destination 5, aren’t exactly the most believable, but some elements in it are still enough to leave some paranoid about certain things.
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Final Destination
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Horror
Mystery
7/10
Release Date
March 17, 2000
Runtime
98 minutes
Director
James Wong
Writers
Jeffrey Reddick, James Wong, Glen Morgan
Cast
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Devon Sawa
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Ali Larter
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