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Final Destination 3

Mixed or average reviews
Based on 28 critic reviews
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Based on 75 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama | Horror | Mystery | Suspense/Thriller
Written by:
Glen Morgan
James Wong
Jeffrey Reddick (characters)
Directed by: James Wong
Release Date:
Theatrical: February 10, 2006
DVD: July 25, 2006
Running Time: 93 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R for strong horror violence/gore, language and some nudity
Starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ryan Merriman, Texas Battle, Gina Holden, Dustin Milligan, Crystal Lowe, Chelan Simmons, and Kris Lemche
When high school senior Wendy (Winstead) joins her fiends for a Grad Night celebration at the local amusement park she experience a vivid premonition of a fatal accident in which the rollercoaster becomes a death trap for her and her friends. But that's only the beginning. (New Line Cinema)
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What The Critics Said
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Boston Globe Wesley Morris
Week in and week out, horror movies cheat us, so it's wonderfully cathartic to watch a bunch of kids cheat death in what turns out to be the best installment yet in the "Final Destination" franchise.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez
A welcome antidote to the depressing, feel-bad sadism of recent horror hits like Hostel and Saw II, Final Destination 3 puts the fun back in watching stupid people die Rube Goldberg-elaborate, ridiculously gory deaths.
Read Full Review >New York Post Kyle Smith
Except for the rock soundtrack, these movies could be silent - and probably should be.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
With each new outing, the Final Destination movies are getting better.
Read Full Review >Empire Kim Newman
Sequelcraft 101 – if you liked the others, this is more of the same. Extra points for using a nailgun on pigeons.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen
The plot's pretty lame, the dialogue is downright hokey, and the characters are a bore, but somehow Final Destination 3 (an oxymoron if there ever was one) still delivers a certain degree of over-the-top amusement.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Chuck Wilson
Director James Wong and co-writer Glen Morgan seem, in this film's creaky first third, to be working on automatic pilot, but they gradually cut loose, staging one imaginative and gleefully gruesome death after another.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
What makes all of this ''fun,'' instead of dark or threatening, is that the victim was an idiot who leered at the class teases with horny glee.
Read Full Review >Variety Justin Chang
In the story's one major stroke of invention, the usual premonitions of death have been replaced with a set of photos.
Read Full Review >Dallas Observer Luke Y. Thompson
It makes it clearer than ever before that these films are comedy. Granted, the sick kind of comedy that involves laughing at stupid people being ripped in half, but we know there are plenty of you out there.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
The problem with "FD3" is since it is clear to everyone who must die and in what order, the drama is reduced to a formula in which ominous events accumulate while the teenagers remain oblivious.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
A horror film (or, more accurately, a shocker film) that takes such exuberant, gleeful delight in the unspeakably gory dispatch of assorted teenagers that it may well be the most fun you'll have at the movies all week.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
After a fiendish start, filmmakers James Wong and Glen Morgan approach their task with all the subtlety of a hammer to the head (or a knife to the gut, or an ax to the back). They do, at least, find a mordant humor in the formula.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader J.R. Jones
If you've seen any of these, you know that the hero is always killed for her trouble, a final stroke of mordant wit.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer David Hiltbrand
Fortunately for us, they number these Final Destination scarefests. Otherwise, it would be impossible to tell them apart.
Read Full Review >USA Today Mike Clark
Movies of this genre don't often engage fresh concepts, but you have to give Wong major points for dreaming up "tan-line flambé."
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey
Yes, Final Destination 3 is a roller-coaster ride of a movie from start to -- well, only about 10 minutes later. The fun part is over and we settle down to watch a sadistic assembly line of characters making premature exits.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Peter Hartlaub
A ridiculous teen horror movie that piles on more than enough dry humor and freshly moistened gore to satisfy its lowbrow audience.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
There's every reason to believe the creators stopped taking it seriously a long time ago. What's bothersome is that they don't take the audience seriously enough to deliver an actual movie.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Michael Ferraro
We are here for the gore – which this film has plenty of. Too bad it doesn't have much else.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
Final Destination 3 is a gorefest that should either slake your worst appetites or drive you to the exits.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Ken Fox
The downtime between deaths has never been duller, and the Rube Goldberg-type death scenes are so poorly staged that it's difficult to figure out what's about to happen and to whom.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Desson Thomson
With a premise as cavalier as this, perhaps director and co-writer James Wong could have found a tone more original than post-Wes Craven cynicism. Instead, he panders to viewers, allowing them to take gleeful comfort in the destruction of the stupid and doomed.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Nathan Lee
The third installment lacks the novelty of the first, the panache of the second and the twisted sense of humor that gives the series its participatory sense of fun.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps
Fans of the genre might appreciate the decidedly R-rated violence and nudity, but that's really all the film has to offer.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Mark Holcomb
Rote sequel that surely no one was waiting for: Like the serially thwarted Death (the only "character" to return from the first two Final Destination movies), audiences are required to endure banal exposition and junior-high-level foreshadowing before being treated to the nauseatingly detailed scenes of CGI slaughter.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer
There's nothing fresh or off-beat in Final Destination 3, no talent that is struggling to get out. The only thing struggling to get out was me from the theater.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 5.4 (out of 10) based on 75 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Maria A gave it a1:
Well the 3D part was OK...only some parts of the movie were 3D. Other than it being 3D there was nothing in this movie that we have not seen in every other Final Destination. The plot in the other once were more intense, and it kept you wondering what was going to happen. This one you know whats going to happen. He has a dream of people dying, wakes up freaks out people survive, they start dying in order. Please make a final destination with a twist. Its like they made this movie thinking no one had ever seen final destination, or hoping we would be so stupid we would not remember that this movie is just like the other ones. Overall this is not worth spending your money. In my case $22 USD.
peter r gave it a0:
Worst film in the franchise. In between the death scenes, there was no suspense, tension or atmosphere. The dialogue was weak & there was no dimension to the characters. No character seem affected about the gory deaths they witnessed. Other than the deaths, this film provided no storyline. FD1 & 2 were good, FD3 died!
Joshua H gave it a5:
This is NOT a good movie no matter how you look at it although given what it's supposed to be (a mindless splatter movie) it entertains and leaves you in suspense here and then.the problems mainly lye with the character development and the acting.It doesn't even attempt to make you care for these charachters and the acting is less than passable.The dialogue lacks and the script is a poorly written one but in the end you can't help but love the death scenes.
Kat S gave it a10:
It is an AMAZING film and I was left wanting more, you may say its cheezy but thats one of the great aspects of it. I also love how they use the same song when something bad is going to happen to Wendy.
[Anonymous] gave it a7:
Is this movie good? No. Is this movie entertaining? Hell ya. Its great to get a break from the crappy depressing horror films like Saw and Hostel. The thing that works for this movie is that you want to see the characters die.
Candace C. gave it a10:
This was a great movie. Very entertaining with great characters. It's the best of the series. I recommend this to everybody who wants a fun ride of thrills!
Lauren N. gave it a7:
[***SPOILERS***] I liked this movie a lot, but I just can’t figure out if at the end the people died or not ? Does anyone else? I love the plot to the movie. It keeps you in suspense and keeps you thinking. I give it an applause.
