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GenreHorror & Thriller
RatedR
Runtime1 hr 38 mins
ReleasedMarch 17, 2000
StreamingSee Where to Watch
DirectorJames Wong
StarringDevon Sawa, Ali Larter, Kerr Smith
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Final Destination (2000)
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| Final Destination's Details | |
| Genre | Horror & Thriller |
| Rated | R |
| Released | 03/17/2000 |
| Streaming | See Where to Watch on this page. |
| Running Time | 1 hr 38 mins |
| Budget | $23M (reported) |
| Box Office | Updated daily from Box Office Mojo. See the numbers below. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Final Destination's Interests | |
| General | Flight 180, premonitions, seat swaps, suspicious FBI agents, a very creepy mortician. |
| Music | Shirley Walker, keeping every quiet moment on edge. |
| Movies | Final Destination 2 (2003). Never drive behind a logging truck again. |
| Television | The X-Files. James Wong and Glen Morgan wrote for it before this. |
| Heroes | Clear Rivers (Ali Larter). The only one who believes Alex right away. |
| Final Destination's Crew | |
| Director | James Wong |
| Writers | Glen Morgan, James Wong, Jeffrey Reddick, Jeffrey Reddick (story) |
| Producers | Warren Zide, Craig Perry, Glen Morgan |
| Cinematography | Robert McLachlan |
| Music | Shirley Walker |
| Edited By | James Coblentz |
| Production | Zide/Perry Productions, Hard Eight Pictures |
| Distributed By | New Line Cinema |
Death is the villain of Final Destination, and it has the patience of a guy building a ship in a bottle. A cracked mug, a leaky toilet tank, a drip of liquid near a computer monitor, and you’re leaning forward guessing which one is the trap. The humans in between are cardboard. Devon Sawa spends the movie wide-eyed and shouting warnings nobody believes, two FBI agents show up mostly to look suspicious, and the dialogue sounds like a class presentation on fate. Ali Larter gives Clear Rivers some actual grit. Tony Todd plays a mortician with a voice like a cello in a basement and walks off with the movie in basically one scene. Half the characters are named after old horror legends, a nice wink. The plane disaster that kicks it off is still a nail-biter, and the 98 minutes fly. A 6.0 because the setups are wickedly clever and the people are only there to be set up. $711 says you hear a faucet dripping tonight and tighten it way more carefully than any faucet deserves.
What works: The chain-reaction setups are clever little puzzles, and Tony Todd makes one creepy scene feel like the whole movie’s mythology.
What doesn’t: The characters are thin, the acting is stiff, and the FBI subplot goes nowhere.
Who it’s for: Horror fans who like their scares built like mousetraps and don’t need anyone on screen to be deep.
Spoilers
Alex figures out that Death is working down the list in the order the survivors would have died on the plane, and that saving someone only skips them for now. He saves Clear, but months later in Paris, the survivors learn the list isn’t finished, and the last shot leaves Carter in the path of a swinging sign as the screen cuts to black.
High school senior Alex Browning (Devon Sawa) boards a flight to Paris with his class and, right before takeoff, sees a terrifyingly clear vision of the plane exploding. He panics, a scuffle starts, and he gets pulled off the plane along with six others, including Clear Rivers (Ali Larter) and his rival Carter Horton (Kerr Smith). Then the plane explodes, just like he saw it. Everyone calls the survivors lucky. Alex is not so sure the universe agrees. James Wong directs. Ninety-eight minutes, zero coincidences.
Anyone who listens to their gut at the boarding gate.
| Devon Sawa | Alex Browning |
| Ali Larter | Clear Rivers |
| Kerr Smith | Carter Horton |
| Kristen Cloke | Valerie Lewton |
| Daniel Roebuck | Agent Weine |
| Roger Guenveur Smith | Agent Schreck |
| Chad E. Donella | Tod Waggner |
| Seann William Scott | Billy Hitchcock |
| Tony Todd | William Bludworth |
| Amanda Detmer | Terry Chaney |
| Brendan Fehr | George Waggner |
| Forbes Angus | Larry Murnau |
| Lisa Marie Caruk | Christa Marsh |
| Christine Chatelain | Blake Dreyer |
| Barbara Tyson | Barbara Browning |
| Robert Wisden | Ken Browning |
| P. Lynn Johnson | Mrs. Waggner |
| Larry Gilman | Mr. Waggner |
| Mark Holden | co-pilot |
| Fred Keating | Howard Seigel |
- (cur | prev) 14:30, 18 October 2026 DataBot +40 Numbers refreshed: IMDb users 6.7 / 10 (342,376 votes) → 6.7 / 10 (342,428 votes).
- (cur | prev) 14:30, 17 October 2026 DataBot +400 Numbers refreshed: Worldwide box office $112.9M; Domestic box office $53.3M; Opening weekend $10M; Profit / loss (est.) +$21.9M; Rotten Tomatoes 51%; box office chart updated; Rotten Tomatoes critics 51% (164 reviews); Metacritic 39 / 100; IMDb users 6.7 / 10 (342,376 votes); movie.guru score 4.6.
- (cur | prev) 12:00, 17 October 2026 DataBot +2,000 Profile created from Wikipedia and Box Office Mojo: cast, crew, release dates, budget, official trailer.