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12/30/06
Final Destination 3 (2006)
45 %
Reviews Counted: 111 Fresh: 50 Rotten:61 Average Rating: 5.1/10
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Final Destination 3 is more of the same: gory and pointless, with nowhere new to go.
Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins
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 night at the amusement park and taking photos for the school yearbook. A control freak,... [More]
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Starring: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ryan Merriman, Texas Battle, Amanda Crew, Sam Easton
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
Screenwriter: James Wong, Glen Morgan
Producer: Richard Brenner, Toby Emmerich, Matt Moore, James Wong, Warren Zide, Craig Perry, Glen Morgan
Composer: Shirley Walker
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Enjoyable threequel which delivers handsomely on the demands of the franchise: an attractive cast, inventive direction, a dark sense of humour and increasingly nasty death sequences.
02/18/06
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02/18/06
With inventive ideas like this, the series can clearly run and run. But they really need to take it to another level now.
02/18/06
Once more, Wong raises questions of fate and predestination and, while throwing in a tasteless reference to 9/11, fails to address them. It’s an orgy of cheerful carnage with no context or purpose and, worst of all, no suspense.
02/18/06
Top Critic
The film starts to pick up after it begins borrowing liberally from The Omen, even more liberally than the film's two predecessors which, as freak-accident horror films, are by definition Omen clones.
06/18/08
This one regresses the series to what Roger Ebert, back in the splatter-film '80s, dubbed the Dead Teenager genre.
02/03/08
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01/15/08
As a forced, unnecessary addition to the series, it lacks a satisfying relationship to its predecessors while simply rehashing the original's plot ...
09/17/07
So lazily plotted and poorly written, one wonders why New Line didn't just release a half-hour version consisting of nothing but death scenes.
03/01/07
Director James Wong enjoys organizing dangerous objects and circumstances into precariously menacing Rube Goldberg arrangements.
05/12/06
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05/06/06
Top Critic
A great date movie for couples who like to share their revulsion at squelchy death scenes and hug each other in dread. Not recommended for the squeamish.
04/22/06
Planes, trains, automobiles, the Final Destination franchise has them covered. Is there no safe place for precocious, horny teenagers to hang out and have a good time?
03/17/06
...the sick kind of comedy that involves laughing at stupid people being ripped in half, but we know there are plenty of you out there.
03/16/06
In its own morbid little way, this is very much a stand-up-and-cheer -- or shriek, as the case may be -- kind of film.
03/04/06
This film is the least of the three: it lacks the novelty of the first film and the cleverly morbid humor of the second one.
02/25/06
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