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| Director
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James Wong
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| Starring
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Mary Elizabeth Winstead,
Ryan Merriman |
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| The plot of
Final Destination 3 |
A high school student (Winstead) has a premonition
of a disaster at her local amusement park. After
the accident claims the lives of some of her friends,
she and her schoolmate (Merriman) plot to save
the survivors from death. |
Final Destination
3 Review
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Review by Justin
Chang:
As yet another gaggle
of clueless teens runs around trying to postpone their
appointments with Death, the question inevitably arises:
Will there ever be a final "Final Destination""Final
Destination"? Not as long as this durably gimmicky
series, admittedly one of the wittier horror franchises
in recent years, continues to dispense sadistic Rube
Goldberg death traps with all the dramatic import of
a kid frying ants under a magnifying glass. First two
installments grossed more than $50 million and $40 million,
respectively, and New Line should anticipate marginally
lower returns from this slapdash sequel before it reaches
a more lucrative destination on homevideo. In the original
"Final Destination" (whose director, James
WongJames Wong, is back for this third round), a group
of high schoolers narrowly avoided a fatal plane crash,
only to find that Death doesn't stay cheated for long.
Here, the pre-empted tragedy is a freak roller-coaster
accident, which Wendy (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) somehow
foresees and manages to escape, though not in time to
save sweetheart Jason (Jesse Moss) and pal Carrie (Gina
Holden).Now Wendy has to put aside her differences with
Carrie's boyfriend Kevin (Ryan Merriman, last seen in
the prologue to "The Ring Two") as they try
to stop the chain of fatalities that inevitably will
befall them and the other survivors -- an incredulous
group that includes a jock (Texas Battle)..more..
Review By Jeff Hartke:
Aimed squarely at its target demographic, Final
Destination 3 (FDES3) is a competent and amiable film,
with a quirky sense of humor and enough gore to keep
the splatter fans from grumbling. Young audiences looking
for a fun popcorner will neither be disappointed or
thrilled. Welcome to Final Destination 3, the third
in a series where a group of high school students cheat
Death, who does not like being spurned. Mary Elizabeth
Winstead (MEWIN) stars as a girl whose psychic premonition
prevents her from boarding a runaway roller-coaster
car, saving herself and a number of her friends. Death
is apparently a personage rather than an event, and
he does not appreciate the fact that these kids didn’t
die on time.Not one to waste any time, Death takes an
active hand in pursuing them - and it appears that he
has an elaborate sense of humor. It's kind of like a
mystery. We know that most (if not all) the characters
will die, in horribly messy sticky awful ways, and part
of the fun is trying to guess exactly when, and how,
they go.As inevitable as Death is, an escape clause
of sorts exists. If they can avoid him a second time,
then they are reprieved. Clues on how exactly Death
is planning each character's demise are found in the
digital photographs Winstead took of her friends the
night of the escape. The kids have to decode these clues
and be in the right place at the right time, if they
want to see another birthday. The audience is invited
to play along with the characters to see when and where
exactly the hammer will fall..More..
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