It was ok, interesting. Not really sure why it became SO famous though. The story is the best thing, quite interesting, although it’s not clear why Alex has this visions, still the plot is rather good.
I don’t agree with the casting here and there, for example Alex: I found this Devon Sawa’s acting quite plain, plus he would often assume that stunned-open-mouthed-face, looking dumb, or his best friend Tod who looked more like a dangerous-crazy-psycho than a horny teenager.
So, the story:
Alex should leave with his classmates and a couple of teachers for France. At the airport he feels strange - looking at the words ‘terminal’ and ‘departed’ as if they had a sinister meaning, plus listening to a song by John Denver who died in a plane crash... he may feel uneasy but he boards the plane with the others. He sits down, two girls ask him to change seats, he does and notices a broken piece, then the plane takes off, explodes and everybody dies. He wakes up from what was actually a premonition, is startled when the two girls ask him to change seats, but when he sees the broken piece he gets terrified and starts screaming that the plane will explode. Another boy Carter starts fighting with him just because that’s what he does apparently, and security takes them out of the plane. Carter’s girlfriend Terry goes with him, Tod follows his friend, Billy finds himself outside simply because caught in the way, and Claire gets out too just because she believed him. A teacher says she’ll stay with them while the other teacher who knows French should go to France with the others. They all think he’s crazy but then the plane explodes and everyone on board dies.
Moving on is difficult of course. After a memorial a few weeks later, Alex sort of has another premonition, a little piece of paper with only the letters Tod in it. He goes to his friend’s house and learns that he died, strangled in the bathroom. His father thinks he killed himself because he survived while his brother died on the plane. Alex talks to Clare and they decide to go see Tod (why, I don’t know, it’s not like they can talk to him). They are found out by the mortician who tells them that “in death there are no accidents, no coincidences, no mishaps and no escapes”, that they cheated death, they disrupted Death’s designed plan and that now Death has a new design for them.
Alex tells Clare that they must look out for messages, signs, to keep cheating death. He sees a bus reflected on a glass window but there are no buses around. Carter is driving by, but when he sees him he stops because as always he wants to fight with him. Terry is fed up with them always shouting at each other (as we all are) and she leaves, alone. She turns and walks in the street and a bus hits her fully killing her.
When the tv explains how the plane exploded, Ales sees a pattern there, and matches it with the seats they were on, realising they are now dying in the same order they were supposed to die on the plane. First Tod, then Terry, then the teacher. He goes outside her house (she’s packing her stuff planning to move away). He apparently wants to check if things are in order, if her car is ok or something, but seeing him outside she calls the FBI guys who interrogated them at the airport, so he’s taken away, but of course they let him go after a while because they have no reason to detain him. He goes to her house right away, to find her bleeding on the floor. The way she died was really something. In another movie it would have been ridiculous, the apotheosis of bad luck - the mug crack by itself, some vodka fall on the old computer, it starts smoking then explodes and a piece of monitor-glass cuts her throat. Bleeding all over, she stumbles onwards. Sparks from the computer light a trail of fire following the vodka that had fallen on the floor (actually there’s so much on the floor the mug wouldn’t have been enough for all that), the fire follows her back to the kitchen and the bottle, there’s an explosion, she falls on the floor, she tries to take a wash cloth presumably to stop the bleeding, but it causes some knifes to fall down and one of them stabs her in the chest. Alex arrives there, tries to stop all the things on a shelf to fall down, but he can’t stop a chair who falls on her pushing the knife down more. Alex takes the knife out with his hand, drops it and runs away before the house explodes. Absurd, but in this movie it is rather ok because they are not coincidences or bad luck, she must die, it’s Death’s plan and there’s nothing natural about what’s happening (like the water that made Tod slip and then receded back to where it came).
Obviously now Alex doesn’t go home thinking the FBI will be looking for him. Clare calls Carter and Billy and finds Alex (quite easily actually), and he tells them his idea. Carter understands that he’s next, and starts speeding, then stops the car on a railroad track saying he’ll die under his own terms, but then changes his mind, but he can’t get out by himself. Alex rushes to help him, he saw in a vision a broken seatbelt, and right on, Carter’s seatbelt breaks and Alex can pull him out of the car saving his life. Instead, Billy gets killed by some kind of piece of metal hit by the train, or something, anyway his head is cut in half while he’s still standing. Alex realises that Death moved on to the next, that they can cheat death if he sees it beforehand and intervenes.
Alex thinks he’s next so he tries to watch out for anything, hidden inside Clare’s cabin, then he remembers that he didn’t change seats, so Clare is actually next, not him. He runs to her.
Another freak chain of events, water, lightings and stuff, and she’s stuck on a car that will probably blow up very soon, so Alex tells her that the only way is for him to take her place. He grabs the wild cables flying around with his bare hands.
Clare manages to escape from the car, the FBI guys that were chasing him arrive to witness what he did, then Clare runs to him hoping he’s not dead. As he should be. Why is he not dead?
Anyway, next scene is six months later, the three of them finally make it to France, but Alex still talks about it all. Alex says that Clare was skipped because he intervened, but nobody intervened for him so he’s still next. He sees some signs that scare him and he walks away telling them to stay away from him.
Clare feels something and yells his name so he stops before getting it by a but/truck or whatever it was. Then a big neon-sign falls down and it would have killed Alex but Carter pushes him down saving him. So, someone intervened, Death skipped Alex moving on to the next. Carter asks “who’s next?” and we see the neon sign coming towards him and we hear a big noise before the screen goes black.
This, I think, clearly means that it will never stop. Alex and Clare will keep being the targets, unless they manage to keep saving each other...
Cast:
Alex-Devon Sawa - didn’t like him
Clear (I heard Claire, but I see Clear written in the credits) - Ali Larter
Carter - Kerr Smith
Tod - Chad Donella - didn’t like him
Billy - Seann William Scott
Man at the morgue - Tony Todd - I remembered him from DS9 :-D
Terry - Amanda Detmer
Tod’s brother - Brendan Fehr
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