Final Destination

(New Line)

Forty high-school students board a plane to France, but one of them, Alex Browning (Devon Sawa), has a premonition that the airplane will explode. He freaks out, a fight ensues, and Alex and six others get kicked off the plane -- only to see it disintegrate on takeoff. The seven surviving passengers have cheated Death -- now Death wants them back. Tailored toward teens, James Wong's film explains its core plot point ad infinitum (once through a mortician who refers to the Grim Reaper as the "Mac Daddy"), but what it lacks in subtlety it makes up for in creativity. A movie built on the imminent demise of seven persons demands seven imaginative deaths, and Final Destination delivers.