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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.

Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins

Genre: Horror/Suspense

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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Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
12/30/06
Empire Magazine
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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.

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02/18/06
Matthew Turner
Matthew Turner
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02/18/06
Peter Bradshaw
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02/18/06
David Edwards
David Edwards
Daily Mirror [UK]

With inventive ideas like this, the series can clearly run and run. But they really need to take it to another level now.

Full Review Source: Shadows on the Wall | comment Comment
02/18/06
Rich Cline
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

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.

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02/18/06
Stella Papamichael
Stella Papamichael
BBC
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Even Hostel showed more respect for the dead

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08/30/09
Fernando F. Croce
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Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | comment Comment
04/29/09
Felix Vasquez Jr.
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Full Review Source: Hollywood.com | comment Comment
11/20/08
Brian Marder
Brian Marder
Hollywood.com

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.

Full Review Source: ESplatter | comment Comment
06/18/08
Lucius Gore
Lucius Gore
ESplatter

This one regresses the series to what Roger Ebert, back in the splatter-film '80s, dubbed the Dead Teenager genre.

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02/03/08
Rob Gonsalves
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com
N/R

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01/15/08
Garth Franklin
Garth Franklin
Dark Horizons

As a forced, unnecessary addition to the series, it lacks a satisfying relationship to its predecessors while simply rehashing the original's plot ...

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09/17/07
Christopher Campbell
Christopher Campbell
Cinematical

I'm not sure how much more overkill this franchise can take ....

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07/10/07
Felix Gonzalez Jr.
Felix Gonzalez Jr.
DVD Review

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.

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03/01/07
Ethan Alter
Ethan Alter
Film Journal International

Director James Wong enjoys organizing dangerous objects and circumstances into precariously menacing Rube Goldberg arrangements.

Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | comment Comment
05/12/06
Jonathan Kiefer
Jonathan Kiefer
Sacramento News & Review
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05/06/06
Sydney Morning Herald
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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.

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04/22/06
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Urban Cinefile

Vapid, pointless and wholly predictable.

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03/19/06
Nick Schager
Nick Schager
Lessons of Darkness

...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.

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03/16/06
Luke Y. Thompson
Luke Y. Thompson
New Times
 
 
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