Final Destination 3 (2006)

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Beautiful, moving film.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Remember seeing this advertised on a Film magazine in 2006 the year this was released & wanted to wanted to watch it as it had a roller-coaster in it. Course, I was 11 when I did & never got the chance to watch it. It was only until 2011 with Final Destination 5 being released I got the chance to watch this one. Wendy has a premonition that she & her friends will die in a roller-coaster derailment on The Devils Flight! Like the previous 2 films they cheat death & have death come after them, this time around the photos of each victim & how they'll die, similar to The Omen film in 1976. This is how they cheat Death... sort of. With the absence of Bludworth with only his voice used in the Devils Flight statue! Which was intimidating!It was a really good watch! Liked the roller-coaster as I'm a coaster enthusiast & liked the film as a whole! It was a decent watch with decent death scenes in it!The deaths were quite good in this one, the premonition of the roller-coaster was great & very sinister looking! The looks on their faces was priceless! Not to mention the deaths & how well they were executed (no pun intended). The one at the gym was great along with the tanning salon with the fit girls!It was overall a great film in the series, can't think of anything negative about it. It was a great 3rd entry! 8/10

I must say that after a rather wanting sequel, I've had very lowered expectations from Final Destination 3. Luckily, this have turned out to be in my favour, as this film has impressed me more than I could anticipate and has spared me unnecessary disappointments.The main gist of the story remains the same, the premonitions of foreboding doom made famous and turned into a franchise. This time, it's a roller-coaster accident. Again, the survivors start dying, and must learn to read the signs and recognize death's design in order to intervene and save each other. Seeing as how director James Wong (who's done a much better job here than in the first film) had obviously had no intentions of offering anything innovative or new, and had just meant to capitalize on the already successful motives - the best way to look at FD3 is by comparison.The good: I find it difficult to connect to the whole damsel in distress routine when it's forced upon the main protagonist, but objectively speaking - it was called for. The first two films showed very brave young people in their late teens or early twenties, and being so brave and composed in the face of such tragedies and dreadful predicaments damages suspense of disbelief. This time, Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Wendy) is a much more realistic character, much more human in the face of death. Also, using pictures as signs and hints (while completely unoriginal in Horror) was a nice addition. And finally, the ending was the best one yet. Involving a few surprises and half- twists, and not at all comical like in the first film (altogether, there is nothing comical about this film, no comic relief or anything of the sort. Good to see Wong has learnt from his past mistakes!). Before I forget - Candyman Tony Todd doesn't appear in this one, but his voice does!The bad: first of all, the famous nude cheat. Come on. Was it really necessary to degrade the film and audience by throwing in two naked girls? Not to mention degrading the actresses (Chelan Simmons and Crystal Lowe, who've performed beautifully delivering a very convincing and authentic duo of shallow bimbos - yes, it takes some skills playing the part right). Second, the unnecessary addition of viciousness felt forced and redundant. There was no need to add a vindictive side to Death, having it simply doing its jobs and killing those whose time had come was more than enough.All in all, I still don't think the film had the same impact as the first, and I did miss the sense of continuity which appeared in the 2nd film, but if you're a fan of the franchise - you'll definitely enjoy this one.

I must say this is better than I originally thought! I thought this is gonna be more cliché. On the other hand, the string of events were played out well and in a very Final Destination feel. You really have to appreciate the film for what it is bec. if you'll think it's just plain RIDICULOUS or IMPOSSIBLE, it's not Final Destination! Mary Winstead (Wendy) is also pretty!! I like her eyes and face! I just gotta point that out bec. I find her attractive even tho I'm a girl.. XD must be just admiring but nothing else!! XD The acting is also believable!! NOT THE BEST but way better than other actors! I was actually observing Wendy and Kevin in this movie and the emotions and the FEEL was there! Not the best but believable.. I also noticed the orchestra playing in the background giving it like a classical feel.. I imagine that old movies also have unreal or very dramatic or sudden play of events like in this film.. I think it also got an inspiration from the oldies.. or did it?? Anyway, it was a good movie! Netflix (or our net/my laptop) kept on lagging so I had to pause a lot of times also bec. of pixelated moments but I still enjoyed it and got myself into the movie thoroughly! Not the best movie, but for how it's supposed to work out.. it did a very good job! It's not at all that predictable like how I imagined it to be! :) Also, I like some of the comedic scenes like how that perv was saying at Ashley and the other popular girl's funeral that he was the cause of their death coz of the pressure of looking good! Some of the lines of the characters about to die were a little cheesy and repetitive but I appreciate the part where Ian Mckinley was talking about Law of Newton and such.. Maybe I have yet to expand my movie list but I appreciated this more!

After a premonition saves a group on a roller coaster crash, the survivors begin to die off in a series of grisly accidents and forces the remaining friends to find a way of stopping the deaths from continuing.Overall this was quite an enjoyable and wholly entertaining part of the series. Like with the others, what really works well here is the setup for the initial premonition, as the scenery at the carnival is quite well-handled and really amps up the suspense in here. The party atmosphere is successfully blinded by the demonic statues, games and the different signs showing up around the park even before getting to the main roller coaster which is yet again is a rather imposing event which lets the action go on quite nicely with all the suspense around them. There's also the start of the film's best part here with its spectacular action scenes really carrying this one along with spectacular scenes that just overwhelm with the spectacle and the ingenuity to pull off the scenes here in the absolutely thrilling crash scene that occurs here. It comes off incredibly well and even plausible as to how the crash could occur in real like taken to an extreme in allowing the deaths to occur here in really great ways, and set up the later encounters quite well. There's plenty of big action encounters here from the sequence in the tanning salon that comes off incredibly cruel, the crash at the drive-up window and the insane tension at the hardware store makes this a notable sequence with all the different potential hazards at play before getting to the crazy death scene. There's also the grand finale at the celebration which features some thrilling scenes, a rather exciting horse-chase sequence through the grounds and really gets a great resolution to this one. Along with the usual high-quality gore for the kills, these here make this one quality enough to hold off the few small flaws here. The main issue here is that there's very little set-up for the kills which are just so quick and over so briefly that they don't have much in the way of suspense about them. This is compounded by the other factor here with the lame mystery about the photographs not being all that well-handled and it just doesn't have much intrigue about them. These here are what hold this one down.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Nudity, Graphic Language and a non-bloody animal killing.