It’s kind of comforting that the plot of every “Final Destination” movie is pretty much the same: Someone has a vivid, ultra-realistic vision of a horrific disaster occurring at their specific location (an airplane, a freeway, a bridge, etc.), then is able to warn a group of people who escape the disaster, which occurs just as the person had envisioned it. Afterward, the survivors start dying in horrific, improbably elaborate accidents.
There’s no traditional villain along the lines of Freddy Krueger or Jason Voorhees. Instead, death itself is a sort of elemental force, bending the world to its will so it can take out the people who were meant to die in the initial accident. Within that framework, the films present clever, gruesome horror stories.
