Six years after students cheated death, another teen has a premonition she and her friends will be involved in an accident. When the vision proves true, the student and survivors deal with the repercussions of cheating the Grim Reaper.
When Wendy Christensen has a vision of an accident on a roller coaster, resulting in her and her friends' deaths, she instantly begins to panic and gets off the ride, causing some of her friends to get off as well. The remaining friends, including Wendy's boyfriend, are stuck on the roller coaster and find themselves involved in the accident. With Death waiting around the corner, Wendy and Kevin Fischer must try and work out Death's plan, before they and the remaining survivors end up dead.Written by
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(at around 45 mins) The "Hice Pale Ale" truck that blocks Wendy and Kevin in the drive-thru lane is identical to one seen leading up to the crash on the highway in Final Destination 2 (2003). See more »
Goofs
(at around 36 mins) In the tanning bed room, when the temperature controller's display changes from 77 to 78ºF, it can be seen that the fan control switch on the lower left side is set to "On". This should normally have the fan (the one built into the wall, not in the tanning beds) running all the time. However, it is then shown how it turns on due to increased temperature in the room and makes the coat hanger wobble. The switch should be set to "Auto" if this were to happen. See more »
At the end of the credits you will hear the mortician (William Bludworth) laugh. See more »
Alternate Versions
The changes on the DVD, if the viewer makes the appropriate choices, are as follows:
By choosing heads or tails when Jason and Kevin flip to see who will ride in the front, the viewer cannot change what happens, only change what side of the coin Jason calls for (he calls heads in the theatrical version). Regardless of the choice, Jason always wins. However, if select tails is selected, after the premonition, Wendy snatches the coin while it's in midair and freaks out, which causes her to not get on the roller coaster. Jason, Carrie, and Kevin follow her out, then the roller coaster crashes. Some text comes up explaining what ultimately became of all of them (none die) and then the film ends.
By choosing to have Ashlyn set the temperature in the tanning room to 76 degrees, an alternate scene is played where she gets out of the booth, but is knocked out by the board, which still traps Ashley inside her booth. Ashlyn frees her, but as she grabs her hand, Ashley falls through the bed and is electrocuted, transferring the current to Ashlyn, killing her as well.
By having Wendy choose to honk the horn again at the drive-thru, an alternate scene is played where Frankie turns around and sees Wendy and Kevin. Kevin manages to pull Frankie to safety. In the next scene, he is being carted off in a stretcher, happily declaring he is going to sue for what happened and become rich. Later, when Kevin and Wendy leave the police station, Frankie is pulled out of a police car for soliciting an undercover officer.
If Wendy looks at Lewis' carnival picture again, an alternate scene plays where Kevin and Wendy are walking on the field, discussing how they are going to convince Lewis to believe them. Once inside, Lewis is already using the machine that kills him in the original cut. He yells out "Fisher! What the fuck are you doing here?!" and then his head is crushed.
By choosing to have Ian fire a warning shot at the pigeons, the hardware store scene is slightly altered. Erin is still killed by the nail gun, but this time she loses her balance when the pigeons (who didn't leave because Ian didn't kill any of them) fly in her face and cause her to stumble backwards. The scene ends with one of the pigeons pecking away at Ian in the photo Wendy took at the carnival.
By selecting "Jump Right", Ian still gets crushed, only this time his whole body is, instead of being ripped apart as in in the standard version. Wendy then throws the camera on the ground and stomps it, and she, Julie, and Kevin walk away, but the camera takes one last photo and the film ends.
If Ian is killed normally, the film continues. If Map is selected, an extra scene, where a newspaper blows off of a homeless man who was using it as a blanket, is inserted. It reveals that the survivors of the second film were killed and the viewer is given the option to read the paper and get the details. Kimberly and Thomas were sucked into a faulty wood chipper owned by the farmer of the second film, after they tried to escape a runaway car that was owned by Evan of the previous film. They had met at the area by coincidence and according to the article, Kimberly dropped out of school and Thomas being sent down to desk duty.
After the newspaper sequence, the film ends as normal, except that the train wreck ends the film, with the final shot being Wendy getting smashed by the oncoming train.
Synopsis: Wendy (Winstead) has a wild hallucination in which she sees her own death, along with about seven others who she is able to save initially, on a roller coaster. Afterward, "Death" is out to finish the task that Wendy thwarted. "He" has a calculated plan to off the others in the order they would have died on the roller coaster. It is discovered first that intervention can cause "Death" to "skip" a life and move on to the next, and that the manner of the deaths can be predicted (to a degree) by examining photographs of the survivors taken on the night of the crash.
Notes: Before you watch this movie, it is helpful to watch at least the first in the Final Destination franchise for two reasons. First, there are a few comments made in this third installment that allude to the original chapter, although they will not shine any insight on this movie that can't be gleaned by not watching the first picture. Second, if you have seen the first movie, you will know exactly what to expect in the third one. In case you have no intention of ever seeing the others, here's what to expect:
A razor-thin plot Characters that you don't care about A high level of predictability Lots of blood and gore A fair amount of profanity If you're expecting a movie that's worthy of literary examination, you're far off. Though the genre of this flick ("Slasher" flicks, or, as Roger Ebert puts it, Dead Teenager Flicks) can be examined as a whole, this particular one doesn't do anything amazing in direction, cinematography, screen writing, CGI, acting... To put it bluntly, this movie exists for the entertainment value it provides and nothing more. The plot of this movie is almost non-existent. A bunch of high school graduates barely survive death when a freak accident causes Wendy to see the next five minutes of her own life. They are stalked and killed by an unseen force that wants them all to die like they were supposed to. The End. Cue credits. Stand up and leave the theater. What keeps you watching the movie is the incredibly creative and gory ways in which the characters are killed off. Not to spoil the movie, these deaths involve car engines, the contents of a hardware store, and electric tanning beds, amongst other everyday objects.
I won't say much more about the ways this movie is bad because these are things that the movie doesn't even pretend to care about. The film is, as a whole, a joke on itself. It knows that it doesn't hold any merit or substance. It doesn't provide a moral message. It doesn't need to. That's not why it was made.
When somebody dies here, you can see it coming. The suspense is enough to keep you watching, even if you're not a big fan of splattering innards. The audience will look at the events set in motion during the scene and say, "This is what's gonna happen, and then that's gonna happen, and then they're going to die this way," and then the characters die (or survive in some cases) in a completely different, and often gorier, manner than the audience expected. With respect to shock value and excitement, this movie succeeds.
Pros:If you know what to expect, this movie is truly entertaining. Go to see the blood, the guts, and the inventive ways Final Destination 3 kills its characters.
Cons:Aside from entertainment value, there's not much to give merit to here. But sometimes, mindless entertainment is all you need.
Last Words: If you've seen the first one, if you've seen the second one, if you enjoyed either of them, the third volume of gory supernatural murders is right up your alley. Like watching most Arnold Schwarzenegger hits, FD3 provides fantastic escape from the mundane boringness that everyday life can cause. The movie injects you with the adrenaline that Mondays suck out of you. If you're too much of a movie snob, don't bother with it. I can think of ways that the director could have upped the artistic value of the movie, most notably with the camera work, but what point would that serve? It would only draw your attention away from the fact that characters you don't care about are dying in ways that are so outlandish and contrived that you laugh until you're out of breath. Final Destination 3 is all it needs to be to succeed.
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Synopsis: Wendy (Winstead) has a wild hallucination in which she sees her own death, along with about seven others who she is able to save initially, on a roller coaster. Afterward, "Death" is out to finish the task that Wendy thwarted. "He" has a calculated plan to off the others in the order they would have died on the roller coaster. It is discovered first that intervention can cause "Death" to "skip" a life and move on to the next, and that the manner of the deaths can be predicted (to a degree) by examining photographs of the survivors taken on the night of the crash.
Notes: Before you watch this movie, it is helpful to watch at least the first in the Final Destination franchise for two reasons. First, there are a few comments made in this third installment that allude to the original chapter, although they will not shine any insight on this movie that can't be gleaned by not watching the first picture. Second, if you have seen the first movie, you will know exactly what to expect in the third one. In case you have no intention of ever seeing the others, here's what to expect:
A razor-thin plot Characters that you don't care about A high level of predictability Lots of blood and gore A fair amount of profanity If you're expecting a movie that's worthy of literary examination, you're far off. Though the genre of this flick ("Slasher" flicks, or, as Roger Ebert puts it, Dead Teenager Flicks) can be examined as a whole, this particular one doesn't do anything amazing in direction, cinematography, screen writing, CGI, acting... To put it bluntly, this movie exists for the entertainment value it provides and nothing more. The plot of this movie is almost non-existent. A bunch of high school graduates barely survive death when a freak accident causes Wendy to see the next five minutes of her own life. They are stalked and killed by an unseen force that wants them all to die like they were supposed to. The End. Cue credits. Stand up and leave the theater. What keeps you watching the movie is the incredibly creative and gory ways in which the characters are killed off. Not to spoil the movie, these deaths involve car engines, the contents of a hardware store, and electric tanning beds, amongst other everyday objects.
I won't say much more about the ways this movie is bad because these are things that the movie doesn't even pretend to care about. The film is, as a whole, a joke on itself. It knows that it doesn't hold any merit or substance. It doesn't provide a moral message. It doesn't need to. That's not why it was made.
When somebody dies here, you can see it coming. The suspense is enough to keep you watching, even if you're not a big fan of splattering innards. The audience will look at the events set in motion during the scene and say, "This is what's gonna happen, and then that's gonna happen, and then they're going to die this way," and then the characters die (or survive in some cases) in a completely different, and often gorier, manner than the audience expected. With respect to shock value and excitement, this movie succeeds.
Pros:If you know what to expect, this movie is truly entertaining. Go to see the blood, the guts, and the inventive ways Final Destination 3 kills its characters.
Cons:Aside from entertainment value, there's not much to give merit to here. But sometimes, mindless entertainment is all you need.
Last Words: If you've seen the first one, if you've seen the second one, if you enjoyed either of them, the third volume of gory supernatural murders is right up your alley. Like watching most Arnold Schwarzenegger hits, FD3 provides fantastic escape from the mundane boringness that everyday life can cause. The movie injects you with the adrenaline that Mondays suck out of you. If you're too much of a movie snob, don't bother with it. I can think of ways that the director could have upped the artistic value of the movie, most notably with the camera work, but what point would that serve? It would only draw your attention away from the fact that characters you don't care about are dying in ways that are so outlandish and contrived that you laugh until you're out of breath. Final Destination 3 is all it needs to be to succeed.
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