{"id":10418,"date":"2024-12-19T11:43:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T16:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/?p=10418"},"modified":"2024-12-19T11:43:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T16:43:00","slug":"final-destination-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/2024\/12\/19\/final-destination-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Destination 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Final Destination 3<\/strong> (2006)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 New Line\/Horror-Thriller\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 93 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (strong horror violence and gore, language, some nudity)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: James Wong\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Glen Morgan and James Wong\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Shirley Walker\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Robert McLachlan\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: February 10, 2006 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ryan Merriman, Kris Lemche, Alexz Johnson, Sam Easton, Jesse Moss, Gina Holden, Texas Battle, Chelan Simmons, Crystal Lowe, Amanda Crew, Maggie Ma, Ecstasia Sanders.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Box Office: $54M (US)\/$117.7M (World)<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: ***<\/p>\n

\u00a0Returning director James Wong (from the first movie) takes the series back to its Dead Teenager Movie roots with Final Destination 3<\/strong>, a sequel that not only understands its place in the horror genre but fully embraces it. Like I said in my review of the second FD movie, it\u2019s basically a geek show, an excuse to show not-too-bright characters dying in bizarre, elaborately choreographed accidents. Hey, it works for me. You\u2019re dealing with somebody who never misses a Friday the 13th<\/sup>, Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween or Saw sequel. The only thing different about the FD movies (besides the death scenes) is that the characters\u2019 deaths are not brought about by a mad slasher but Death himself. You see, Death has a plan for everybody and God help the person who interferes with that plan. No matter what, Death will have his due.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Final Destination 3<\/strong> follows the formula laid out by the previous two movies. It starts with the main character having a vision of a terrible disaster. In this instance, it\u2019s high school senior Wendy Christensen (Winstead, Grindhouse) who foresees a roller coaster malfunctioning and claiming the lives of several classmates. It\u2019s a terrifying vision with screaming teens hanging on for dear life and flying to their deaths as it goes out of control, derails and crashes due to a strange set of events. When Wendy comes to, she demands to be let off the ride and a few others follow suit, some more willingly than others. Sure enough, the damn thing crashes and yet another high school mourns the deaths of several of their own.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Tony Todd doesn\u2019t reprise his role as the creepy mortician who knows an awful lot about how the whole Death thing works. Instead, one of the other survivors, semi-douche jock Kevin (Merriman, The Ring Two), reads about the Flight 180 disaster and its aftermath on-line and deduces all the pertinent info- i.e. the survivors die in the order they should have died in. Wendy took photos at the carnival and discovers they reveal how each person will die if <\/em>you know what signs to look for. She and Kevin try to warn the others, usually to no avail. In fact, their efforts backfire and result in an unhinged classmate, Goth-dude Ian (Lemche, eXistenZ), coming after Wendy who he blames for his girlfriend\u2019s violent demise.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Once again, it\u2019s the death scenes that define Final Destination 3<\/strong>. Don\u2019t go looking for plot or character development, brilliant screenwriting or anything deep. You\u2019ll find none of it here. What you will get are cool, VERY gory death scenes. In this installment, two airheaded chicks get cooked in tanning beds. A guy gets the back of his head sliced off by an engine fan at a drive-through burger joint. A jock\u2019s head is crushed by weights. There\u2019s a death by nail gun. A girl gets impaled by a flagpole. Somebody gets crushed by a cherry picker (SPLAT!!!). PLUS, Wendy has another gruesome vision at the end, this time of a subway crash in New York. That one is fairly messy. Of course, the director wants to keep viewers guessing as to how the characters will meet their demise so he throws in a lot of red herrings like runaway horses, fireworks, a spilled drink, a giant stuffed bear, forklifts and a boom box too close to a puddle of liquid. These items may or may not contribute to a character\u2019s demise.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Although acting really isn\u2019t one of this series\u2019 strong suits, I have to say that Winstead is one of my favorite Scream Queens, a title she\u2019s since semi-relinquished with roles in higher quality films like Smashed, The Spectacular Now and Kill the Messenger. Of course, she was also in last year\u2019s creepy 10 Cloverfield Lane. Winstead\u2019s horror credits also include Black Christmas (the 2006 remake), Death Proof (from Grindhouse) and The Thing (the 2011 prequel\/reboot). She\u2019s quite good in Final Destination 3<\/strong>. As for the rest of the cast, their performances range from passable to bad. But, as you know, bad acting is one of the hallmarks of this (or any Dead Teenager\/Mad Slasher) series. The opening sequence at the carnival is well done. There\u2019s something inherently creepy about carnivals, especially in horror movies. It figures that the doomed roller coaster is called \u201cThe Devil\u2019s Flight\u201d. Final Destination 3<\/strong> is a fun teen horror flick. Try not to think about the normal standards to which one usually holds a movie. Just watch it for the bloody spectacle. It works for me.\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Final Destination 3 (2006)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 New Line\/Horror-Thriller\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 93 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (strong horror violence and gore, language, some nudity)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: James Wong\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Glen Morgan and James Wong\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Shirley Walker\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Robert McLachlan\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: February 10, 2006 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ryan Merriman, Kris Lemche, Alexz Johnson, Sam Easton, Jesse Moss, Gina […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10437,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-horror","category-sequels-remakes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Final-Destination-3-PIC.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10418"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10439,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10418\/revisions\/10439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}