At least the audience I was with laughed more than it screamed.
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
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.
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.
Let's just hope that Final Destination 3 really is the final entry in this successful but intellectually bankrupt horror franchise.
The third time around is not the charm, but we can only hope this will be the FINAL final destination.
The original film had pathos and humor; this is gratuitous and silly rather than engaging and funny.
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.
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.
Morgan and Wong's snarky iterations on their initial premise don't show much development...a fair diversion but, make no mistake, a waste of time.
[A]n unredeemably sadistic film that makes a joke of horrific death. There is absolutely no point to this film except inciting audiences to new levels of bloodlust...
... there's no suspense or tension and little gallows humor, merely dead space between the next spectacular spray of blood and body parts.
This gory sequel begins with a promising thrill ride, but by the end has become little more than a merry-go-round, spinning pointlessly in circles.
The third film is pretty much what you expect: heads popped and brains yuckily visible.
Wong and Morgan: your diminished returns are ready. Get 'em while they're hot.
Final Destination 3 shouldn't be mistaken for a good film [but] there is an important difference between this and truly odious films like Saw...
James Wong makes his return to the series he started, after bowing out for 2003's lackluster sequel, only to essentially remake the first film.
The series has made it work with macabre humor and devilishly clever setups.
Robustly embodies the cathartic pleasures of shared scared silliness.
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