Final Destination follows a group of students as they are preparing to fly abroad for a class trip. In the airport, one of them has a premonition of the plane coming apart and exploding just after take off. She is able to convince or inconvenience a small group enough that they are kicked off the plane. They watch as their classmates explode after take off. All that would be weird enough but it seems the people who survived all start to die in random, tragic ways in the order they would have died on the plane. It seems the students have cheated death and now the abstract concept of death is taking revenge on them.
The fun of these movies is seeing the way events will conspire to kill these kids out of the blue. Sometimes, there is a rogue speeding bus waiting to flatten someone and sometimes it is a series of intricate coincidences that add up to a fatal stabbing and your house exploding. The unique brand on the whole series is that there is no bad guy to defeat and no way to ensure your safety, you are literally fighting back against death, who always wins in the end. It is a scary concept that somehow got goofier in the later movies.
The original Final Destination is still a solid watch, I would recommend it. I think I gave up around the third one, your mileage may vary.
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