Final Destination 3
2006 Directed by James Wong
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This Ride Will Be The Death Of You.
In the third film of the Final Destination franchise, high school student Wendy Christensen fails to stop the ill-fated rollercoaster ride that she predicted would cause the deaths of several of her friends. She teams with schoolmate Kevin Fischer in a race against time to prevent death from revisiting the survivors of that amusement park accident. Starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead ("Live Free or Die Hard," "Grindhouse: Death Proof"), Ryan Merriman ("The Ring Two," "Halloween: Resurrection") and Tony Todd ("The Crow," "The Rock").
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Final Destination 3 is an unflinching depection of alcoholi.. Wait, that was that other Mary Elizabeth Winstead flick I saw last night.
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Final Destination 3 is the unflinching depiction of how a rollercoaster ride can go really wrong, if it was designed by Rube Goldberg. Yeah, that sounds about right.This is actually the last one in the FD series that I didn't see, so now I can proudly say that I've seen all of them and I also have to shamefully admit that I like them.
They're dumb and repetitive to be sure, but somehting gets me about the concept of having Death as the BIG BAD.As always there's one person with a premonition…
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This film is fun
Stupid, silly, moronic, dopey, laugh out loud FUN.
The characters are supposed to be stereotypes.
The plot is meant to be ridiculous.Way back when in the days of yesteryear, I caught the first Final Destination and loved it for all it's unashamedly corny, cheesy, popcorn-fodder B-Movie'ness. I happened to be working as a projectionist when the sequel came out and enjoyed the cuckoo experience just as much. Although it's taken me an age to nearly catch up with the franchise I can honestly say I enjoyed this immensely.
You see, the beauty of these movies is they are a glorious "1 trick pony". You take a group of massively obnoxious or painfully annoying stereotypes, you…
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The third one, which brings back series creators James Wong and Glen Morgan, has the confidence that comes with its makers having an understanding, after the first two movies, of both the obvious and subtextual appeal of these movies. In other words, the existential dread is balanced perfectly with the hilariously grotesque and over-the-top death sequences. I'd completely forgotten about the scene that invokes 9/11, and it actually seemed even more offensive and stupid than it did in 2006. Other than that, it's a great deal of fun, sharing the previous film's pitch black sense of humor but not its misanthropy. Mary Elizabeth Winstead is by far the best lead actor this series has had - I had a feeling back when I saw this that she was going places, I tells ya.
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Lesson One of horror school - if your characters are cliches they are little more than props. No one cares when props are in danger.
Lesson Two - If you can't afford the visual effect don't bother. Suggestion can be more thrilling.
Lesson Three - Third installments of horror franchises tend to suck. Deal with it. Set it in space or show more boobs.
Sadly Final Destination 3 skipped horror school. I had a premonition this film would suck, I should have skipped it.
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One of my favorite Final Destination's. I love Mary Elizabeth Winstead! I've seen this movie so many times I think it's affecting my rating otherwise it'd be higher.
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I enjoy the pragmatic gimmickry of this franchise very much, and this entry gets right down to business in all the good ways.
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See my review for the first movie in this series.
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This is by no means a perfect film, but it's hands down the best in the series. It get's pretty scary at times.
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There isn't enough expansion or explanation in this series to really warrant making sequels, this is simply a copycat of the first film.
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Final Destination 3 is an unflinching depection of alcoholi.. Wait, that was that other Mary Elizabeth Winstead flick I saw last night.
Let me start over:
Final Destination 3 is the unflinching depiction of how a rollercoaster ride can go really wrong, if it was designed by Rube Goldberg. Yeah, that sounds about right.This is actually the last one in the FD series that I didn't see, so now I can proudly say that I've seen all of them and I also have to shamefully admit that I like them.
They're dumb and repetitive to be sure, but somehting gets me about the concept of having Death as the BIG BAD.As always there's one person with a premonition…
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One of my favorite Final Destination's. I love Mary Elizabeth Winstead! I've seen this movie so many times I think it's affecting my rating otherwise it'd be higher.
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Director James Wong avoids 2nd Sequel Syndrome and delivers fast paced, terrifying film. Rollercoaster sequence is superb, guaranteed to thrill! Young actors do a great job setting the tone.
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Startade klenare än tvåan, inte så köttiga eller innovativa sätt att dö på. Själva karaktärerna är väl lite bättre än de i ettan eller tvåan, men det är inte riktigt det man gillar dom här filmerna för.
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Final Destination 3 might as well be a primer's guide to film language. The foreshadowing of the grisly deaths that are about to take place are really executed well and contribute to the fun tone of, what I consider, the best installment in this series. The images on the screen burst with double meanings and secrets that it really becomes enjoyable watching the film a second time to spot how the characters are going to get it before they gets it.
What I've always liked about the slasher film was its parallels to the 70s disaster movie where we're introduced to a group of unique and quirky archetypes and then we see those people change as a devastating event occurs.…
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The idea of fate written is very interesting, I myself have thought that all those kinds of coincidences that happen in the film may be possible, but it is still a bad movie series. The first was good, the other not so much.