Final Destination 3 (2006)

 

Genre: Horror/ Sci-Fi

Time: 1h 33mins

Director: James Wong

Quick Summary: Wendy Christensen and a group of teens who escaped a fatal roller-coaster crash face a bloody date with Death.

Not that I wanted to go in a tanning bed anyway, but now I definitely don't want to. 

Imagine taking something mediocre at best and making it PERFECT. Now you have this film. They've ironed out all the kinks, and all the issues and produced this masterpiece. Behold its glory.

A new element to the franchise is that clues are being left as to how the characters will die. Using her nifty digital camera, Wendy was busy taking pictures for the yearbook on the night she was supposed to die. After the accident, she begins examining the pictures and realizes that she has taken at least one picture of each survivor. A little more studying reveals that she might be able to use the photos to help the characters escape Death. I love this. It's so damn fun.  

The deaths are so much more intense too, like one which has actually traumatised me since a child was one involving a tanning bed. A load of small various events all happen in a sort of domino effect to cause these beds to heat up rapidly, cooking these two girls essentially, and then soon after bursting into flames. And you know what? Each death shows the set-up of how these strange small things all end up causing this massive impactful death. 

The acting has never been great in this franchise and still isn't in this one. I mean it isn't bad and the cast is definitely sufficient but they aren't what holds together the film, I think I just prefer the characters more. Mary Elizabeth Winstead takes the lead role and boy she really runs with this. Kris Lemche was a personal favourite due to how cunty in an emo sort of way he was able to be, really made the scenes he was in super fun and enjoyable to watch. 

One complaint I do have is about one of the deaths being way too sudden. Sure it had the set-up for it and people try to escape during this moment, but this one guy (he kind of deserves it I'll be honest) just gets slammed out of nowhere with an engine. It's the bus all over again. 

It does redeem itself in my eyes in being able to loop itself around within the film, the first death relating to the last death. Honestly, without spoiling it, it is pretty cool. 

Absolutely solid film. You don't even need to watch any of the others to enjoy this golden film. It's fun, it's 2000s-filled, it keeps you on the edge of your seat, and the deaths are so gruesome and gory that you will probably be paranoid about the items/events from this forever. 

9/10

"Is it painful, or embarrassing? I mean, there's nothing like up my ass, is there?"

"Wendy Christensen: What happened to willful ignorance?

Kevin Fischer: Hey, I'm full of shit, all right? I never thought I could see my own death before it happened Wendy."

"Ian McKinley: Ok. Let's go with what you guys are saying: let's just say, you know, that Death does have a conscious plan, and that it's been set into motion. Great. So, Newton's Third Law of Motion and well, look, I'm just guessing that it goes for Death, too, when he's working in our world. Newton says that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. So, that means that if Death has taken action, so can we. And that that action may thwart Death's intent.

Kevin Fischer: You're being a fucker, but go on."