Despite a panel of X-Files' alums at the helm and a promising premise, flighty performances and poor execution keep Final Destination from ever taking off.Story: In this teenage horror film, a young man avoids the hand of death, only to find that he can't get a
way from it so easily. On the way to Paris with his high-school French club, Alex Browning (Devon Sawa) h
as a vivid premonition of the plane crashing and killing all its passengers. After Alex and some other passengers demand to be let off the flight, his premonition turns out to be true, and the jet explodes during takeoff. While the FBI is convinced that Alex was involved in some kind of foul play, the passenger
s who got off the flight are all dying in horrible ways, as if whoever determined that the passengers w
ould perish is punishing those who cheated death. Final Destination marked the feature directorial debut of James Wong, a producer and director for the TV series The X Files.
