Death A.K.A. The Grim Reaper - the ultimate serial killer - is back and on another rampage. You can run, but you cannot hide! He's prepped up to take away you're lives! Surrender now and prepare for your death. Final Destination 3 is a 2006 horror film, and the third film in the Final Destination series. Distributed by New Line Cinema, the film was directed and written by James Wong, who co-wrote the original. It was produced by Craig Perry.
The premise, for those of you yet to experience the first two “Final Destination” films, is this: Some unfortunate teenager has a vision of his/her impending doom. The said teen manages to use this vision to escape certain death, keeping a few other friends and passers-by alive as well. BUT: if you escape death, then death will catch up with you. Not in a simple, quick manner, mind you. No, death here is played by Rube Goldberg, and The Rube Reaper will slowly set into motion the worst chain of events possible, thus killing you in the most gruesome of manners. Death, you need to understand, is highly inefficient, but it does has one hell of a sense of humor.
This time around he(Death) plans to kill an entire Roller coaster full of unsuspecting teens that are out for a night of fun just before graduation. On what should be one of the happiest days of her life, high school senior Wendy (Winstead) joins her friends at a local amusement park. Secured in her seat on a roller coaster, Wendy experiences a vivid premonition of a fatal accident in which the roller coaster becomes a death trap for her and her friends. Emerging from her terrifying vision and still on the ride platform, Wendy demands to be let out of the coaster car. When a fight breaks out, a handful of students are forcibly ejected from the ride. As they watch their classmates and friends from the ground below, Wendy’s premonition proves nightmarishly true – the coaster careens out of control, and all of those aboard perish. But that’s only the beginning. Those who survive the disaster discover that fate is hard to escape. They were meant to die – and death cannot be easily cheated! It’s not long before death comes to claim its next victim, and it’s through this tragedy that Wendy realizes that there are clues to the survivors’ impending demise contained in photos she took at the amusement park that fateful night. As Wendy and her classmate Kevin (Merriman) desperately try to interpret the clues that might save lives, one-by-one their friends meet fantastically gruesome ends…and soon it will be their turn.
No one from the other Final Destination movies makes an appearance here, although there are references to the events in both. Death is the only returning character, and He doesn't require an actor or a costume. Winstead and Merriman make attractive, likeable leads and the supporting cast create recognisable characters without descending too far into cliché. The effects are superb too, particularly the Rollercoaster of death centrepiece. The deaths come in a suitable rhythm, establishing a worthy balance of jolts and jokes, which the film maintains an admirable sense of efficiency throughout.
I like the “Final Destination” movies. They’re scary and funny and very self-aware without being obnoxious. They are, simply, a very good time well spent at the movies. The threequel marks the return of director James Wong and co-writer Glen Morgan, the pair behind the first one and not the second. Thanks to the people behind this movie, the frights in this sequel are more fun than anything, and more so than the others, the script and direction are extremely inventive, ensuring that you’re howling with laughter, even as you cringe in horror at the increasingly gruesome deaths. The filmmakers are terrific at balancing the big moments in the movie, both in scares and humor, leaving us with a well-rounded work. Nice job.
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