For example, a long, overhead tracking shot is used when two people are going to the bathroom. In Final Destination's pursuit to become something ultra-modern, nifty camera movements are tried, but for the unnecessary reasons. Because of the off-again, on-again lighting, it's sometimes impossible to tell what's happening. One other thing that upset me was the constant need to do odd lighting. At times, the special effects didn't look real AT ALL (re: the bathroom scene), or there were too many when less is more (re: the final, climactic storm).
Something else that surprised me was how many special effects were needed. When you could see that something was going to happen, you wanted to yell at the character to not do so-and-so. Final Destination sure had some, but also the music and the general movie itself was thrilling. It seems like horror movies today rely on quick jumps to scare the audience. Although it wasn't as atmospheric as the aforementioned movie, and it relied a lot on sudden violence, it was still creepy. Knowing that this was written and directed by the same team who did Willard, I knew that a lot of the movie wouldn't be just needless blood, but that there would be some sort of a creepy atmosphere to it all. Soon, everyone who was supposed to be on the plane start dying one by one. While everyone thinks that Alex caused the accident, he knows that they were supposed to die on board. He and others are forced off of the plane, and, sure enough, the plane crashes with everyone else on board. Right before it is set to take off, however, he has a premonition that shows him that soon after takeoff the plane will crash and everyone on board will be dead. Alex (Devon Sawa), along with about 40 others, are all set to take off on a plane destined for their senior trip in France. Would it be something original and scary, or just some lame dud? Thankfully, it turned out to be the former. When Final Destination came up on my Netflix list, I didn't know what to expect. You could get something genuinely creepy yet tongue-in-cheek, like Scream, or you could wind up seeing something like Darkness Falls or They. When you go to watch a movie like Final Destination, which is obviously a teen horror movie, you take your chances.
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