“Final Destination” is a slasher movie without the slasher villain. Imagine “A Nightmare On Elm Street” without Freddy Krueger or “Halloween” without Michael Myers” and you have “Final Destination”, a movie so corny and over the top that you cannot take it seriously.

A teenager (Devon Sawa “Slackers”) has a vision that he and his classmates will die in a plane crash. He starts shouting before take-off so he and several others are thrown off the plane before it bursts into flames moments later. The ones that got thrown off are now dying in ‘accidents’. Can any of them discover a way to cheat death again?

I did not care about the characters in this film at all. They are murdered in the most ridiculous of scenarios. I cannot explain just how insane some of the death sequences are because some of them are just so far-fetched that they resemble the complexity of the board game “Mouse Trap”. There seems to be no killer as such, occasionally there is as a sort-of blur thing that goes across the shot but no actual character to speak of. As bad as some of the slasher movies are, at least they had to come up with a way for the bad guy to kill people but here any combination of objects spontaneously will cause your death.

“Final Destination” invents a rules system that ensures that there can be sequels as even if you survive one of these ‘accidents’, you still are not safe. In some ways, I suppose the movie is more intriguing than another flick with a knife-wielding maniac but I was not entertained by this film at all. Horror movies are meant to scare us but all “Final Destination” can do is make us chuckle at how cartoonish its death scenes are.