Escorted back to the terminal, he ends up one of seven who stay behind. Berserk with panic, Alex snaps out of his nightmare and screams that the plane is going to crash, even though it still hasn't left the gate. Once on the plane, Alex is seized by a fantasy (the movie's scariest scene) in which the aircraft, seconds after takeoff, shudders with a death rattle as an explosion rips through the cabin, creating pandemonium. For weeks, Alex has been having premonitions of disaster, and as he quakes with terror in a men's room stall, the Denver song sneaks into the background to taunt him with the reminder that what goes up must come down. The first time you hear the anthem by the perky folk-pop singer, who died in a plane crash, it is being piped over the sound system at Kennedy Airport minutes before Alex Browning (Devon Sawa), a jittery high school senior, is to board a jet for Paris on his class trip. The grinning voice of John Denver caroling ''Rocky Mountain High'' may never again seem quite so innocent once you've consumed ''Final Destination,'' the leaden teenage horror film in which the song is repeatedly used to announce the arrival of death (with a capital D).
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