When about to go on a roller-coaster with a group of friends, Wendy Christensen suddenly has a premonition that the roller-coaster will crash. She panics and is let off the roller-coaster together with some of her friends, and a few minutes after what she saw would happen in her premonition comes true. Since they all were supposed to die in the crash but managed to cheat death, they now have to try to cheat it again as it comes after them one by one in the order that they were supposed to go.
I'm a little late here, should have watched this movie a few weeks ago but was never in the right mood to do so. Meanwhile I've been reading a few reviews about it on different sites on the net and a lot of people seemed to really like it. I'm a big fan of the second movie, the first one was ok but the second one was a bigger improvement over the first one as it was more fast-paced and had some great gore to it as well. So what about the third one? Well, it's basically the second movie all over again, and while it might be entertaining, it really had nothing new to offer that we haven't seen before.
From the reviews I read about this movie earlier, everyone seemed to be really excited with the scene involving a roller-coaster that the movie starts off with. So when I started to watch Final Destination 3 I was somewhat excited too about what was gonna happen, how much gore it would involve and how nasty the scene would be. I shouldn't have read about it before, because all that scene left me with was disappointment. Sure it was well done and was somewhat entertaining to watch, but was also over pretty quickly without leaving too much of a big bang.
And from there on it just went on in the exact same vein as the second movie, but while the second flick had some actual suspense to it, this third installment felt a little too predictable and unfortunately offered nothing new. You know the story too well, and the only reason I could find why to watch this third follow-up was to see how they would kill off people in different ways. I can't say that they haven't been creative when coming up with the different death scenes as all of them are actually pretty cool, but that was also the only thing the movie has going for it. Final Destination 3 sure was inventive when it came to that sort of matter and while that is actually enough for one to wanna see it, it still would've been nice if it would've offered something more, something that would've made it a little different.
In the end this movie is all about death, that is, if you don't wanna see death or anything that has to do with death it's recommened to stay far away from this flick because it's all about death. I think I over used the word death here but you get my point. Tanning beds are something I would not go close to now and I think the best death scene in Final Destination 3 was the one that featured tanning beds. I don't wanna spoil it for those who have not seen the movie yet, but that scene was actually great and it's hard to see how some people felt that the roller-coaster scene was so amazing without ever mentioning the scene involving the tanning beds.
There are quite a few scenes where you'll get to see people die in different kind of inventive ways and that's what manages to keep this movie interesting. Although, I felt that the death scenes came much more unexpected in the sequel than here. In this third movie they were way too predictable, all of them. Still fun to way though, but way to predictable. Can't say much about the actors, you get your regular teen cast and they give a performance that's totally ok considering what kind of movie this is.
We never get to know any of the people here very well and there are no strong characterisation. One thing I liked about the second movie was that they brought in the girl from the original movie and used her knowledge to be able to stop death. That was something new and different but unfortunately we don't get anything like that here. One other thing is that the movie felt way too short, I think a running time of 93 minutes should be enough but when the credits started to roll I could hear myself thinking 'is that it?'.
I had hoped for a little more but I still found Final Destination 3 to be quite an entertaining flick. It's fast-paced, we get to see a lot of people die in different cool ways and the ending was also interesting. Nothing that special but if you liked the two previous movies, you'll definitely like this one too.
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ALTERNATIVE TITLE: Final Destination 3-D
MOVIE YEAR: 2006
DIRECTOR: James Wong
WRITING CREDITS: Glen Morgan, James Wong
GENRE: Horror
CAST: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ryan Merriman, Kris Lemche
COUNTRY: USA
RUNTIME: 93 min
RATING: 6/10
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