While certainly not Lang's finest, DESTINY is, nonetheless, an impressive film. Lang's visual acuity was obvious from the get-go, and DESTINY boasts some incredible imagery. There are shots that must be frozen and studied even as one watches the movie unfold; they're that striking. Though "Death" could've been a bit more otherworldly (see the Devil in Murnau's FAUST), Goetzke is serviceable: his grim mein is very much in keeping with his job description; still, in light of some of the more striking depictions of He Who Waits to have sprung from the mind of Man over the eons, it would've been nice to have seen a no-holds-barred Fritz Lang take on Death. (A quibble, perhaps, but a valid one.) The fx are truly stunning- in particular the sequence where a parade of phantoms come across a hill and march inexorably past the heroine and through a graveyard wall to... their DESTINY.
