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Final Destination 3 (2006)

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Reviews Counted:24

Fresh:8

Rotten:16

Average Rating:5/10

Consensus: Final Destination 3 is more of the same: gory and pointless, with nowhere new to go.

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for strong horror violence/gore, language and some nudity

Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Theatrical Release:Feb 10, 2006 Wide

Box Office: $54,098,051

Synopsis: James Wong (THE ONE), who directed the original FINAL DESTINATION film, returns to direct the third installment in the series. High-school senior Wendy (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) is enjoying senior... James Wong (THE ONE), who directed the original FINAL DESTINATION film, returns to direct the third installment in the series. High-school senior Wendy (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) is enjoying senior night at the amusement park and taking photos for the school yearbook. A control freak, she's not particularly fond of rides--especially the roller coaster. Despite her fear, Wendy decides to go on the coaster, but is soon traumatized by a vision that a fatal accident is about to occur. She and a group of other riders disembark from the ride--and the rest of the riders do indeed suffer a horrific fate. Having cheated death once, Wendy is tormented by an ominous feeling that something is very wrong. Her classmate, Kevin (Ryan Merriman), does some research and learns that something similar has happened before: a high-school student had a premonition that a plane filled with his classmates was doomed, a group of them refused to board, and the plane exploded in flight. Following that incident, the survivors all died under mysterious circumstances and in the order that they died in the premonition. Soon, Wendy and Kevin realize that the same fate is about to befall those who got off the roller coaster and survived. Perhaps more disturbing is that clues to the impending deaths seem to lie in the photos that Wendy took on the evening of the accident. In an instant, innocuous situations and common objects become fatal, causing particularly gruesome deaths. Ultimately, the real question becomes whether or not Wendy and Kevin can save their classmates--and themselves--from impending doom before it's too late. [More]

Starring: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ryan Merriman, Texas Battle, Amanda Crew

Starring: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ryan Merriman, Texas Battle, Amanda Crew, Sam Easton, Patrick Gallagher

Director: James Wong

Director: James Wong
Screenwriter: James Wong, Glen Morgan
Producer: Richard Brenner, Toby Emmerich, Matt Moore, James Wong, Warren Zide, Craig Perry, Glen Morgan
Composer: Shirley Walker
Studio: New Line Cinema

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The people in this movie are some of the stupidest people in the history of movies.

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02/16/06
Richard Roeper
Richard Roeper
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As a horror flick, Final Destination 3 is literally laughable.

Full Review Source: Toronto Star | comment Comment
02/10/06
Susan Walker
Susan Walker
Toronto Star
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Fans of cheap thrills can enjoy FD3 for what it is: A ridiculous teen horror movie that piles on more than enough dry humor and freshly moistened gore to satisfy its lowbrow audience.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
02/10/06
Peter Hartlaub
Peter Hartlaub
San Francisco Chronicle
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If you're a Final Destination fan, it's unlikely that #3 will disappoint. If you like horror/thrillers with plenty of cartoonish blood and gore, this will hit the spot.

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02/10/06
James Berardinelli
James Berardinelli
ReelViews
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The plot has more holes in it than the victims, but the shocks make up for the flaws. Don't think, just watch, and expect a wild ride.

Full Review Source: Newark Star-Ledger | comment Comment
02/10/06
Lisa Rose
Lisa Rose
Newark Star-Ledger
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Keeping this series of black-comedy skits fresh is a challenge that the writers don't always meet, and their expository scenes need to be nail-gunned.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
02/10/06
Kyle Smith
Kyle Smith
New York Post
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After a fiendish start, filmmakers James Wong and Glen Morgan approach their task with all the subtlety of a hammer to the head (or a knife to the gut, or an ax to the back).

Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
02/10/06
Elizabeth Weitzman
Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News
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If this film makes money, and it probably will, there may never be a final Final Destination. And that is the most disturbing thing about this movie.

Full Review Source: Detroit News | comment Comment
02/10/06
Tom Long
Tom Long
Detroit News
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Final Destination 3 still falls squarely into the category of guilty pleasure, but it's fashioned with a fair amount of craft. If fate should bring us another installment, let's hope it's at least as fun as this one.

Full Review Source: Detroit Free Press | comment Comment
02/10/06
John Monaghan
John Monaghan
Detroit Free Press
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Week in and week out, horror movies cheat us, so it's wonderfully cathartic to watch a bunch of kids cheat death in what turns out to be the best installment yet in the Final Destination franchise.

Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
02/10/06
Wesley Morris
Wesley Morris
Boston Globe
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Granted, nothing here is going to go down in history as a horror classic. But as far as dead-teen flicks go, this is one pretty lively affair.

Full Review Source: Arizona Republic | comment Comment
02/10/06
Randy Cordova
Randy Cordova
Arizona Republic
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At its heart, this second sequel is standard slasher stuff, though director James Wong does rise (or maybe sink) to the occasion with grisly staging.

Full Review Source: USA Today | comment Comment
02/09/06
Mike Clark
Mike Clark
USA Today
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Gore fans will doubtless enjoy the film, which could spin off several more sequels. After all, Death is the one villain you can't ever kill off.

Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune | comment Comment
02/09/06
Colin Covert
Colin Covert
Minneapolis Star Tribune
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Final Destination 3 manages to push all the requisite buttons and then some.

Full Review Source: Dallas Morning News | comment Comment
02/09/06
Chris Vognar
Chris Vognar
Dallas Morning News
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The problem with FD3 is since it is clear to everyone who must die and in what order, the drama is reduced to a formula in which ominous events accumulate while the teenagers remain oblivious.

Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | comment Comment
02/09/06
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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With a premise as cavalier as this, perhaps director James Wong could have found a tone more original than post-Wes Craven cynicism. Instead, he panders to viewers, allowing them to take gleeful comfort in the destruction of the stupid and doomed.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
02/09/06
Desson Thomson
Desson Thomson
Washington Post
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It's more dead teenagers and lunatic determinism in this grim third installment of the enjoyably preposterous Final Destination franchise.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
02/09/06
Nathan Lee
Nathan Lee
New York Times
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You can't cheat death. (But apparently you can cheat audiences over and over.)

Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | comment Comment
02/09/06
Michael Wilmington
Michael Wilmington
Chicago Tribune
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All we can say is: Death be not proud. If you have to work this hard to take down these dim-witted kids, you don't deserve to be a cosmic force.

Full Review Source: Philadelphia Inquirer | comment Comment
02/09/06
David Hiltbrand
David Hiltbrand
Philadelphia Inquirer
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You could condemn such a movie for being such a smirking, calculatedly cheesy gore-fest. But that would presume that the movie aspires to be anything else.

Full Review Source: Newsday | comment Comment
02/09/06
Gene Seymour
Gene Seymour
Newsday
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