just back from seeing this. what do i think.... hmmmm.....
well, it doesn't really veer from the established template - someone sees a horrible accident - this time during a car race - one of those silly American nascar type things. lots of people get squished, smashed etc etc, last guy to die wakes up before the accident, pulls his friends and some assorted strangers out, they survive, they start to die one by one.
the opening credits feature cgi wire frame recreations of deaths from previous entries in the series which is kind of nice. what isn't nice is that ( and this isn't really a spoiler at all ), the final deaths in the film - which surely should be the best, the flashiest, the goriest, are also done in this way for no reason that i can make out.
also, death seems to cheat in this one - during the setup of the opening race crash we see screws mysteriously undoing. what was good about the first film was that you could put everything down to coincidence - the deaths could all be natural accidents for the most part.
as to the deaths in this one, some are rather gory yet in other ways tame - in part 2 one of the highlights of the film was the part where the fat kid had a giant pane of glass fall on him, causing him to splatter everywhere. in this one, when people have heavy items fall on them that doesn't happen - they are just gone. there is a gratuitous topless shot in this - but the makers didn't take the advice i offered after seeing my bloody valentine 3d and use someone with comedy breasts - they are totally normal ones.
and then onto the 3d effects... they are impressive in part but the problem is, after about 15 minutes you tend to not notice the 3d anymore - you forget that you are watching it except in certain bits - often subtle ones like a safety plaster floating in the foreground while in a swimming pool.
some of the deaths here are inventive, others less so - i still don't think they top what we saw in part 2 which for me remains the best of the series.
overall it's worth watching, good fun but any attempt at innovation seems to be gone from the series.
well, it doesn't really veer from the established template - someone sees a horrible accident - this time during a car race - one of those silly American nascar type things. lots of people get squished, smashed etc etc, last guy to die wakes up before the accident, pulls his friends and some assorted strangers out, they survive, they start to die one by one.
the opening credits feature cgi wire frame recreations of deaths from previous entries in the series which is kind of nice. what isn't nice is that ( and this isn't really a spoiler at all ), the final deaths in the film - which surely should be the best, the flashiest, the goriest, are also done in this way for no reason that i can make out.
also, death seems to cheat in this one - during the setup of the opening race crash we see screws mysteriously undoing. what was good about the first film was that you could put everything down to coincidence - the deaths could all be natural accidents for the most part.
as to the deaths in this one, some are rather gory yet in other ways tame - in part 2 one of the highlights of the film was the part where the fat kid had a giant pane of glass fall on him, causing him to splatter everywhere. in this one, when people have heavy items fall on them that doesn't happen - they are just gone. there is a gratuitous topless shot in this - but the makers didn't take the advice i offered after seeing my bloody valentine 3d and use someone with comedy breasts - they are totally normal ones.
and then onto the 3d effects... they are impressive in part but the problem is, after about 15 minutes you tend to not notice the 3d anymore - you forget that you are watching it except in certain bits - often subtle ones like a safety plaster floating in the foreground while in a swimming pool.
some of the deaths here are inventive, others less so - i still don't think they top what we saw in part 2 which for me remains the best of the series.
overall it's worth watching, good fun but any attempt at innovation seems to be gone from the series.
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