As the bus crosses a bridge that’s being constructed, Sam notices something amiss with the road, and he begins to have weird feelings while on the bus. The bus is stopped by a traffic operator, and then the bridge moves as if there is an earthquake. The road starts to crack and the suspension wires holding the bridge slowly breaks. The group immediately get off the bus. Candice is trapped when chunks of the road fall into the lake below. She hangs onto the railing of the bridge far off to the side, but the railing detaches, impaling her on the sail of a passing boat. The group panics as the bridge disintegrates more with each passing second.
Isaac, who was inside the restroom of the bus when they all disembarked is left inside and dies next as the bus is sent crashing into the lake. The crack in the middle of the bridge widens and so they all run. Another crack in the road occurs and they are left with only a rickety steel railing to cross. Olivia loses her eyeglasses in the melee and had difficulty finding her way. Peter helps her after he has seen that his girlfriend Molly has made it safely across the rails. But the railing falls and Olivia falls to the water. A car falls in after her, crushing her to death. Nathan dies next when he is hit by a swinging suspension wire. Then their boss dies too after being slathered with hot boiling asphalt from a truck that overturned. Peter and Sam make a jump towards the railings and try their best to go up to safety. But a truck beside Molly falls and with it, the steel bars it was carrying impaling Peter. Sam continues on up but another steel contraption falls from the truck and slices Peter in half.
At this point Sam suddenly returns to his senses (as if waking from a dream) and he sees he is still alive. And then everything in his dream starts to happen – like the bus stopping abruptly and the cut in his finger even the music playing on the radio. So Sam gets Molly off the bus and tries to convince others to get off the bridge too because the bridge is going to collapse. But they don’t seem inclined to believe him. Peter gets off to run after Sam and Molly to convince them to come back. Candice follows him, and Olivia, Nathan, Isaac, and Dennis soon get down too. Then they see the road starting to crack and they all run. The bridge collapses and their bus falls into the water but Sam and his friends are able to run to a safe place. The group looks surprised and confused as to how Sam knew the accident was going to happen.
An investigation ensues and even the investigator is baffled as to how Sam knew the incident was going to happen but Sam himself found it difficult to explain that he had a ‘vision’ before the event actually occurred. The investigator doesn’t believe this though and tries to pin the destruction of the bridge on Sam – like a terrorist act. But the engineering investigation failed to support his theory saying that it was the wind that caused the ‘freak accident’ on the bridge. So he had no choice but to stop his nosy questions on the eight Presage employees who survived.
During the company funeral for their seventeen officemates who died when the bridge collapsed, William Bludworth, a local coroner, is present and he warns the group that Death is after them because it doesn’t like to be cheated. They all ignore his warnings and move on with their lives. Sam and Molly try to reconcile later that night but Molly insist that Sam follow his dreams and take the job in Paris.
The next day, Candice is with Peter at her gymnastics practice, and he convinces her to go on despite her misgivings after what just happened. So, Candice does some work on the balance beam, and a nail from a malfunctioning fan falls on the beam. But the said nail doesn't injure her, instead another girl falls on the nail and she knocks off a pit full of powder. This then causes Candice, who was then doing vault work to lose her sight, and as she flips she loses her grip on the bars and lands on the floor dead with a broken spine... Ewww! Truly a very gory scene, much worse than being impaled on a ship's sail.
The next day as the group is gathered together at their work place and starts drinking to relax, Isaac goes through a dead co-workers' desk and steals some of his loose change and even a free coupon for a Chinese massage parlor. He thinks his dead friend won't miss them anyway. He proceeds to the massage place, starts flirting with the receptionist and the girl retaliates by giving him an old Chinese woman attendant who speaks little English. She gives him a ‘hard’ kind of massage – one that he doesn’t at all expect and in the process one of the screws of the bed’s legs comes out. Then, she does acupuncture on him, and leaves him alone in a sound proof room. A fire starts when one of the incense sticks falls on an open book. He shouts but no one hears him. Isaac rolls off the bed when one of its legs caves in sending him to the ground, pushing the needles into his body. He tries to get up and takes off the needles piercing his now bloody body. But his cellphone set on vibrate causes a candle to fall to the floor that had been drenched with alcohol. Isaac avoids the fire, but as he lay trapped against the wall, a shelved Buddha falls and crushes his head. As gory as the way he died in the bus when it crashed into the lake while he was lying smack against the windshield...ewww!
Sam sees Budworth, the same guy who was present in all of their friends’ deaths so far. The friends have started to believe that their friends’ deaths are not ‘freaks’ and they cannot be coincidences anymore. Sam approaches him and asks him what had been happening to them. Sam asks him about his statement the other day, that death doesn’t want to be cheated. He says that the lucky few who usually survive disasters do not really have a way to escape death. They are doomed to die in one way or another. But there is another way to avoid Death - they would have to kill someone to gain their remaining days on Earth. Peter starts to believe in the idea and even gets angry at Sam for deciding to save Molly while the rest of them were not saved.
Olivia goes for eye surgery on the same day, and the doctor straps her head into place. Olivia, fearful, holds a teddy bear, and as the doctor put in contraptions to keep her eyes open, she rips off an eye from the bear. Olivia is told by the doctor to wait, but the machine begins to malfunction, overheating, and the button to begin surgery is dropped as she reaches for it in panic. The remote drops and the laser slices her eye open. The laser goes off a few more times and it burns through her hand and scars her face. She then escapes the machine. Sam and Molly and the doctor run in to see a scared Olivia, and she trips on the teddy bear's eye. She falls through the window onto a parked car, and falls off as her eye rolls away to be run over by a car.
The same investigator visits them and starts to doubt that the deaths were all caused by ‘freak accidents’, he believes there is a pattern and wants Sam and Molly to tell him what they know. So they share with him what they believe that they weren’t supposed to survive the bus crash, and so now they’re being taken one by one. That night Sam is kept awake thinking about the ‘premonition’ he had and tells Molly how the sequence of events happened and how it seems to fit the pattern of their friends’ deaths. First it was Candace who fell off the bridge, then Isaac who crashed with the bus, then Olivia as she was being helped by Sam to cross the railings - they’re all dying in the exact order of his ‘dream’.
Nathan is next shown working in the construction plant. He talks to Roy who is angry with him for management’s decision to cut everyone’s working hours. As they talk, Nathan sees a beam moving closer to them with a hook under it. Nathan urges Roy to move, but he accidentally pushes him backwards as the hook falls, and Roy is stopped from landing on the spikes below. Nathan then sees Roy has been impaled by the hook through the head. Peter discovers that Nathan accidentally killed Roy, taking his days, skipping him in Death's design. Meanwhile, their boss, Dennis arrives, asking about the incident when suddenly a wrench that Roy placed on a machine flies off right into Dennis's face, just as Sam was telling them that there seems to be an order to the deaths and that Dennis will be next.
Later that night, Sam goes to work in the café, Le Miro 81. Inside the kitchen, Sam gets apprehensive approaching all those kitchen gadgets that may get him in an accident and so he remains careful. Sam accepts the apprenticeship in Paris. His mentor also lets Sam have the restaurant for the night to spend it with Molly. The investigator meanwhile stays on guard outside the restaurant/café. Peter crashes the dinner, and tells them how he tried to push a woman in front of a truck to steal her life. But he admits he couldn't do such an act, and he then ponders Candice's death and how she didn't deserve to die, but yet Molly survived because of Sam. Peter then tries to kill Molly because he thinks Molly didn’t deserve to live while all of them dies. Molly takes refuge in the kitchen and Sam fights off Peter. Agent Block hears gunshots and enters the café. He is shot by Peter, taking his years. Molly and Peter continue to struggle because Peter refuses to just go and let Molly live because she witnessed him killing a federal agent. Sam wakes after being knocked out earlier by Peter and they struggle with the gun and it falls on the burning stove. But as Peter was about to kill Molly, Sam stabs him in the back with a large skewer. The gun in the stove goes off but misses Sam by a few inches and Sam realizes he stole Agent Block's life from Peter, and so both he and Molly are saved.
Two weeks later, Sam and Molly are on a plane to Paris, and she asks for the window seat. As they are boarding, a group of high school students get into a fight and a kid is kicked off with a teacher. During takeoff, and as the lights were dimmed Sam tries to sleep and puts on his headset but he freaks out hearing the same song on the radio before their bus crashed – ‘Dust in the wind’. Then the lights begin to flicker and the plane is rocked by turbulence, it’s like déjà vu all over again. Sam overhears the stewardess talking to a passenger that the kid that got off the plane claimed to have a vision that the plane was going to explode. When Sam and Molly looked out the window, the wings of the plane begin to explode just as the kid predicted. A hole materializes at the side of the plane and Molly and her seat is sucked out as Sam desperately tries to hold on to her. He wasn’t able to though and she is cut in half by the wing as the rest of the passengers, including Sam get engulfed in flames. As the plane goes down Nathan is shown at a local bar, and he is seen talking to a guy who reveals that Roy was going to die in the next few days anyway due to a huge tumor in his brain. Then suddenly the flaming engine from Flight 180 crashes through the bar and crushes Nathan to death.
What I can say about the movie? Well, aside from it being a truly gory experience, I guess all I could say is that I am just glad I was not watching the film while eating otherwise, I would’ve been totally disgusted because of all the blood and disjointed body parts flying off eeewww! Well, I have been able to watch a few other Final Destination films before so I have been pretty much forewarned. But this is a better installment because its ending is different than all the other Final Destination films. It also had a twist in the end. In all, it is a very violent film where kids die one after another after being saved from a catastrophe. The underlying message that all Final Destination films have is that no one can really cheat death. If you are meant to die, you can’t be saved, you’re going to die in one gruesome way or another.
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