Final Destination 3-Thrill Ride Edition (2006)

"A super-scary ride!  Thelma Adama, US Weekly
"Wong provides enough of a thoughtful undercurrent to make this an acceptable sequel.  Sight & Sound
"...the best installment yet in the "Final Destination" franchise.  Wesley Morris, Boston Globe

Editor's Note James Wong (THE ONE), who directed the original FINAL DESTINATION film, returns to direct the third installment in the series. High-school senior Wendy (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) is enjoying senior night at the amusement park and taking photos for the school yearbook. A control freak, she's not particularly fond of rides--especially the roller coaster. Despite her fear, Wendy decides to go on the coaster, but is soon traumatized by a vision that a fatal accident is about to occur. She and a group of other riders disembark from the ride--and the rest of the riders do indeed suffer a horrific fate. Having cheated death once, Wendy is tormented by an ominous feeling that something is very wrong. Her classmate, Kevin (Ryan Merriman), does some research and learns that something similar has happened before: a high-school student had a premonition that a plane filled with his classmates was doomed, a group of them refused to board, and the plane exploded in flight. Following that incident, the survivors all died under mysterious circumstances and in the order that they died in the premonition. Soon, Wendy and Kevin realize that the same fate is about to befall those who got off the roller coaster and survived. Perhaps more disturbing is that clues to the impending deaths seem to lie in the photos that Wendy took on the evening of the accident. In an instant, innocuous situations and common objects become fatal, causing particularly gruesome deaths. Ultimately, the real question becomes whether or not Wendy and Kevin can save their classmates--and themselves--from impending doom before it's too late.

	Kris Lemche
	Mary Elizabeth Winstead
	Ryan Merriman
	Sam Easton
	Chris G. Willingham - Editor
	Craig Perry - Producer
	Glen Morgan - Screenplay
	James Wong - Director
	James Wong - Screenplay
	Jeffrey Reddick - Characters By
	Robert McLachlan - Cinematographer
	Shirley Walker - Original Music By
	Toby Emmerich - Executive Producer

Sight and Sound
"Wong provides enough of a thoughtful undercurrent to make this an acceptable sequel." 04/01/2006 p.52

Ultimate DVD
3 stars out of 5 -- "[Y]ou just can't help but clench every muscle in your body as death plays mousetrap with its victims, one by one." 08/01/2006 p.84

Variety.com 7 of 10
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"? 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. - Justin Chang

Chicago Sun-Times 6 of 10
"Final Destination 3" is in the relentless tradition of the original Dead Teenager Movies, which existed to kill all the teenagers in the movie except one, who was left alive to star in the sequel, explaining to fresh victims what happened at Camp Crystal Lake, or how we know what you did last summer. In "FD3," the kids learn about their possible fates because one of them heard about the "FD1" case on the news. If the movie were self-aware, like the "Scream" pictures, he would have said "This is just like that movie "Final Destination"." - Roger Ebert