Convincingly pointless and breezy in its hedonistic hokum...Hence, the third time around is not the charm for this foolish and faceless fright flick.
Final Destination 3 (2006)
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Reviews Counted:112
Fresh:49
Rotten:63
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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Reviews for Final Destination 3
... isn't for everyone, but those in the know who like their horror served up R-rated and over-the-top, Final Destination 3 delivers...
The Final Destination series caters to its target audience without insulting it -- which is why the flicks make so much damn money.
Fans of the series won't be terribly disappointed, but if there's an FD4, I hope they have the sense to scale things back just a little bit. Comparing FD3 to the original proves that a modicum of restraint is most effective.
[Director] Wong and [writer] Morgan honed their skills on The X-Files, Millenium and The Commish and it shows in their ability to create suspense and tension as well as carnage.
Like Saw II (2005), another grisly sequel to a film that seemed to have hit on a foolproof formula, this third Destination blows it, big time.
3 suffers in comparison to the insanely inventive 2, which found wittier ways to exploit the idea that laughing and screaming are closely linked methods of relieving tension.
The Final Destination movies may be pointless and crass, but they play on that fascination with malicious efficiency, and 3 is no exception.
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.
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.
The picture returns to the biting humor of the first FD and, in fact, improves and deepens the Rube Goldberg-ian deathtrap scenarios.
These movies have never been my cup of tea, and contemporary horror movies' appetite for pointless sadism leaves me unmoved and not a little alarmed.
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.
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.
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).
If you're into state-of-the art depictions of human pureeing, this is indeed your flick.
Final Destination 3 is junk, and proud of it, but it certainly delivers what it promises.
An uninspired splatterfest that wears its vulgarity on its blood-caked sleeve and is cynical enough to use 9/11 in its vapid story line.
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