Final Destination 3
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| Director(s) | James Wong |
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| Distributor | New Line Home Video |
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| Set six years after the original Final Destination, the latest installment in the series centers around a high school senior who has a premonition of a fatal roller coaster accident involving herself and all her friends. When the premonition proves true, those who have “cheated death” and survived the accident are forced to deal with the repercussions of escaping their fate. | |
Set six years after the original Final Destination, the latest installment in the series centers around a high school senior who has a premonition of a fatal roller coaster accident involving herself and all her friends. When the premonition proves true, those who have “cheated death” and survived the accident are forced to deal with the repercussions of escaping their fate.
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Giddily gruesome and perversely entertaining, Final Destination 3 proves, yet again, that horror franchises will thrive as long as teenagers keep finding spectacular ways to die. A stand-alone sequel to the first two Final Destination thrillers, this one begins when a group of seven high-school graduates luckily escape from a deadly roller-coaster disaster, only to discover that their own deaths have been only temporarily avoided. Cute brunette Wendy (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) spots clues of impending doom in digital photos of her soon-to-be-expiring classmates, and an ill wind follows her everywhere, suggesting the presence of a supernatural force that makes her a catalyst for gory events, as each of her friends is dispatched in the order they were meant to die. Returning to give their brainchild a suspenseful, low-budget makeover, franchise creators and former X-Files writers James Wong and Glen Morgan cleverly play on our collective fears (the roller coaster sequence is genuinely terrifying) with a knowing nod to violent urban legends, which explains their inclusion of the '70s hit “Love Roller Coaster” on the soundtrack when two stuck-up girlfriends pay an ill-fated visit to a tanning parlor. And that’s just for starters: With Wong as director, FD3 serves up its grisly deaths with tight pacing and humor, and the cathartic carnage is discreetly edited yet gory enough to satisfy hardcore horror buffs. When morbid mayhem is this much fun, it’s a safe bet that another sequel is just around the corner. —Jeff Shannon
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Alex and a group of high school students take a flight to Paris for a French class trip. Alex has a premonition of the plane crashing and prevents his schoolmates from taking off. The plane bursts into flames shortly after takeoff, and Alex must deal with suspicious FBI agents as well as his freaked-out friends. Unfortunately, Alex continues to foresee the gruesome, dramatic deaths of those that should have died on the plane.
Kimberly forsees a horrible auto accident and saves herself and a few others by blocking an on-ramp. As in the first Final Destination, Death attempts to balance the books with an entertaining variety of elaborate and gruesome deaths.
