10 Movie Plot Twist Clues We All Ignored
3. The Presence Of Flip Phones - Final Destination 5
You can't really be blamed for failing to fish out the plot twist in a Final Destination movie. After all, the twists typically amount to "they all die in the end," and they're hardly the sort of movies that audiences expect brain-melting surprises from, right?
But Final Destination 5 actually cooks up a genuinely clever rug-pull by revealing in its final moments that the movie is a prequel to the original Final Destination, with the surviving characters ultimately being killed by the first film's doomed Volée Airlines Flight 180.
It was a brilliant shock, albeit one which was signposted in one major way: technology. Keep your eyes peeled throughout the film and you won't see a single smartphone in sight: everybody's rocking flip-phones because, of course, it's actually set in the year 1999.
Flip phones had pretty much died out entirely by 2009 - two years before the film's release - and so for anyone who was paying close attention, it was either a sly indicator that some chicanery was afoot, or that the prop department lazily cut corners by recycling old props.