You have all the ingredients here of the pernicious id roiling in the secret think-pan of most thoughtful Americans.
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
Do the producers of this overdone trilogy understand the concept of 'final'?
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.
Each demise serves as a testament to a refreshingly old-fashioned villain -- not another nut-job human with a saw, but a dedicated ghoul with a job to complete.
Absent of the edgy suspense, creativity and thoughtful moments of existentialism that had previously made this horror series more than just a cheap study in evisceration and decapitations.
Easily the best of the series, [it] blends serious fright with funny situations ... as in the deaths that occur at the Phoenix Tanning salon.
The movie gives you the fun and fright of a roller coaster, which is nice, since you may not be riding those anymore after watching this.
A desultorily plotted affair that feels less like a thriller than a homicidal checklist.
The plot's pretty lame, the dialogue is downright hokey, and the characters are a bore, but somehow Final Destination 3 (an oxymoron if there ever was one) still delivers a certain degree of over-the-top amusement.
It's an escalating contest of can-you-top-this brutality, with each death staged as the final link in a Rube Goldberg chain reaction.
A reminder of how low a filmmaker will sink to pander to our most corrupt tendencies.
Final Destination 3 has plenty of giddy gore and a couple of suspense-driven scares, these days that's really all you can ask from a horror movie.
If you're willing to overlook some plot holes big enough for a conductor to drive a subway train through and all you want is total, complete and grisly annihilation, then 'All Aboard!' You'll love Final Destination 3.
Im a fan. The guys in the audience shouted at the clever, cruel deaths: Nice!
The notion of butchery as a spectator event notwithstanding, there's an almost admirably workmanlike quality to the way co- scenarists Glen Morgan and James Wong set up their characters for carnage like so many fleshy bowling pins.
Death finds gloriously grisly new ways to deal with teenagers who dare to spit in his face.
Whether conscious or not on the part of the filmmakers, the gory logic follows America's understandable desire to rationalize the effects of such physical violence that its invisible soldiers are suffering in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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