Final Destiny

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"Sophia Gilchrist" (Kerry Condon) is an agent for the FACB (Flight Activities Control Board) which is an agency responsible for examining aircraft accidents. However, as the story unfolds we learn that Sophia has an unusual trait in that she is very afraid of flying. So much so that when she finally boards a flight with her brother (in order to overcome this fear) she ends up leaving just before the airplane takes off. It's not until she is driving to her destination that she learns that the flight crashed--killing all on board-including her brother. Needing answers to gain closure she begins investigating the accident even though she has been ordered to distance herself from it due to creating a potential conflict of interest. Unfortunately, because of feelings of guilt, she disobeys orders and continues to investigate in spite of warnings to cease and desist. And her continued activity creates all sorts of problems for everyone involved. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this was an interesting film by and large but it suffered from a socially liberal bias which was simply too obvious to be ignored. It also had a rather anti-climactic ending which seemed a bit too rushed as well. In any case, I thought this movie was good enough for the most part and all things considered I have rated it accordingly. Average.

This film is so bad and on so many levels it's hard to find a place to start. Okay, so we have a crash investigator who's afraid of flying. Yes, that's deeply ironic. Her brother dies on the plane that she bolted off of in a panic attack, her mother is dealing with both the loss of her son and the miraculous sparing of her daughter. Anybody in these situations would be numb for months just trying to process all of this, but not these two women. Through a combination of bad writing and bad directing, we fast-track past the five stages of grief and submerge ourselves into the investigation by a disgraced former employee of the (wait for it) "National Air Crash Board". Seriously? The real investigators of the NACB are too incompetent or wrapped up in politics to see the evidence that their former colleague screams at them, so it's up to our maverick heroine to bust the case wide open. Of course there's the obligatory Muslim investigator who spends a lot of suspicious time at his mosque; no red herrings here. She has her suspicions of who the culprit is early on in the story, and without any attempt at plot twists or misdirection, turns out to right in a ridiculous and unsatisfying ending. I watched this through to the end because it became a study of bad storytelling. With so many good offerings available to us these days, do yourself a favour, skip past this one, and trust the trending titles on Netflix.

This movie could have been a good movie except for the bashing of men and the ridiculous, obsessive female lead. What a complete waste of an hour and a half.

This woman is supposed to be a top notch investigator, but manages to blow up a house full of evidence by accidentally spilling a chemical while snooping around. If you love dumb movies like I do, this one is gold.

Okay so you know how Sharknado was so bad that it was good? Well this ain't that (yes I said AIN'T)! I read the 4.7 rating, ignored it, and watched this movie. Do NOT be like me! This movie is horrible. I can overlook the bad acting (and it is really bad), and I can overlook the obvious flaws (like getting arrested and the police not finding the watch that she stole from evidence, or slapping her supervisor and still not losing her job), but I'm having trouble forgiving the obvious stupidity of not just lifting up one of the mechanisms from the pan to keep the house and all the darn evidence from blowing up. And I absolutely will not overlook the nasty way she treated every single person still in her life. You know it's horrible when less than 1/4 of the way through the movie you find yourself wishing star of the movie had died in the crash too.

This movie is so bad that the lead is a total criminal. No respect for the law. Breaking and entering / theft of private property to name some false impersonation. She cares for no one except the so called "truth". No matter who? Her friends who she blatantly uses and steals from. Doesn't cares how they feel. She is smarter then everyone on the planet. Arrogant, no feelings except for her own. Even her mother is less intelligent and she disrespects hers. Some daughter? The director fails at making her look caring with all the decietful acts. Doesn't listen to anyone. Didn't care about anyone even her brother is less important than her cause to solve the case. The work protocols in place or the law are there for a reason. They are a guide I know, but she has total disregard for any of them or the law. Abuses her authority because she's the poor soul who couldn't get ahead cause she is insubordinate and egotistical about her knowledge and skills? Change channels before you're sorry!!!

What struck me oddest is the absolutely flatness of the characters. We're dealing with the death of a man who's sister narrowly missed getting on a plane that crashed and all of the people around him. No one really seems sad - his mother, his sister, his boyfriend or the large circle of friends that he has (and his sister seems to share). There is way too much brevity even in the scenes his sister visits the crash site while it is literally still smoking. The scenes of his sister trying to grieve are forced and insincere and her interactions with the people around her are plastic and the dialog is like a 'movie of the week'. The mother doesn't seem to be either happy that her daughter survived nor the fact that her son did not. The sets - the homes of the people involved and the offices - are also too perfectly staged. No one has clutter or personal mementos on display, the way our normal homes look. Phones and computers are always conveniently charged but never plugged in. I only made it through about the first 30 minutes and found so much alarmingly wrong that I couldn't watch more. The production seems okay and the actors might be good if not for such a 'carefully' written script. While others have commented with the number of gay characters, I found this okay, having been a "beard" for a number of friends. I didn't get through enough to comment on the Muslim characters.