STARRING: Seann William Scott, Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Kerr Smith, Tony Todd. Written by Glen Morgan, James Wong and Jeffrey Reddick, from a story by Jeffrey Reddick. Directed by James Wong. Originally released in 2000. Budget $23 million. Running time 98 minutes.
A group of excited teenage high school kids board a plane for a trip to Paris. One of the kids, Alex Browning (Ali Browning) has a horrific premonition that the plane is going to go down in a ball of fire and gets himself and five other passengers thrown off the plane. When the plane promptly explodes killing everybody onboard, Alex is ostracised by both the other survivors and the families of the victims. He's also a person of interest for the FBI who hound him constantly assuming he had something to do with the disaster. When the survivors start dying in a series of ghastly, gruesome, elaborate W.H.Robinson style accidents, Alex realises that because they've all cheated Death, Death is now coming for them, can Alex find a way to survive?
What follows is an enjoyable, gory, slasher film, where the deaths cause you to laugh with amusement, so inventive and outlandish are they. You find yourself trying to second guess how each death is going to occur. Naturally, when I first saw this the shocks worked brilliantly, this time round, you remember what's about to occur. Although that doesn't stop this from still being a lot of fun.
It's directed and edited well, the performances didn't win any Oscars and it's done and dusted in 98 minutes. It's not a film you need to rewatch over and over again, but once every 25 years seems about right.
Overall, this isn't big, or clever, it looks a tad cheap and low budget, but nevertheless it's silly, exceedingly gruesome and loads of fun. Like watching 24 HRs in A&E, but one where you not only get to see the accidents too.
7/10
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