Final Destination 3
Rated: R
Gore, Nudity, Language and Violence
2 of 4 Stars
Starring: Ryan Merriman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Texas Battle, Gina Holden, Dustin Milligan
Directed by: James Wong
Produced by: Warren Zide, Craig Perry, James Wong
Final Destination 3 is the continued sequel about people narrowly escaping death, only to have
death come back to finish the job. Strangely enough I enjoyed the first 2 movies because they kept
having original ways of killing people and the movie was more like a suspense than a horror.
Although they certainly had enough shocking gore to go around, nothing really compared to the
first two films. One scene in particular that made FD2 so shocking was a part when a kid was
standing on the sidewalk when all of the sudden huge piece of place glass falls from a sky rise
under construction and absolutely levels him into the cement. Yes blood was everywhere but it was
just kind of mind blowing. In the new version of Final Destination, they over play the body popping
and brain squishing sequences over and over and over and it starts to get very repetitive. The ew
factor starts to go away and boredom starts to set in. I am not a horror fan by any stretch on the
imagination and this movie just bored me, not gross me out.
Final Destination 3 follows the same principles as the first but this time the setting is in an
amusement park, where a roller coaster goes off the track, killing everyone who was on it. Actually
the first 30 minutes were pretty good and it seemed to be engaging enough. Then the script
thinned out and predictability takes over. The blood starts to look more like cranberry juice and the
brains seem a lot more like soup rather than disgusting and gross. Nothing in this movie seemed
like it could ever happen and everything seemed to happen by coincidence. What made the other
two so great, is that you felt like the events that took place could actually happen. Things did not
happen for the sake of gore but for the sake of the plot involved. The other movies focused so
much on plot and suspense that you really got captivated into the characters. This movie lacked all
of that and left you kind of bored by the end.
The acting was decent and the directing was not even that bad but the script was just lame and the
special effects were sub par.
Warning to Parents: R rated for Nudity, Violence, Gore and Language. The nudity that takes place
is not in a sexual context but for some reason the director felt it necessary to show 2 girls in a sun
tanning machine for about 15 minutes completely naked. It was pointless and stupid. The gore
factor begins to just bore you because it seems like every scene is almost the same and the
language is really not that bad, just a few words here and there.
2 of 4 Stars
Rated: R
Gore, Nudity, Language and Violence
2 of 4 Stars
Starring: Ryan Merriman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Texas Battle, Gina Holden, Dustin Milligan
Directed by: James Wong
Produced by: Warren Zide, Craig Perry, James Wong
Final Destination 3 is the continued sequel about people narrowly escaping death, only to have
death come back to finish the job. Strangely enough I enjoyed the first 2 movies because they kept
having original ways of killing people and the movie was more like a suspense than a horror.
Although they certainly had enough shocking gore to go around, nothing really compared to the
first two films. One scene in particular that made FD2 so shocking was a part when a kid was
standing on the sidewalk when all of the sudden huge piece of place glass falls from a sky rise
under construction and absolutely levels him into the cement. Yes blood was everywhere but it was
just kind of mind blowing. In the new version of Final Destination, they over play the body popping
and brain squishing sequences over and over and over and it starts to get very repetitive. The ew
factor starts to go away and boredom starts to set in. I am not a horror fan by any stretch on the
imagination and this movie just bored me, not gross me out.
Final Destination 3 follows the same principles as the first but this time the setting is in an
amusement park, where a roller coaster goes off the track, killing everyone who was on it. Actually
the first 30 minutes were pretty good and it seemed to be engaging enough. Then the script
thinned out and predictability takes over. The blood starts to look more like cranberry juice and the
brains seem a lot more like soup rather than disgusting and gross. Nothing in this movie seemed
like it could ever happen and everything seemed to happen by coincidence. What made the other
two so great, is that you felt like the events that took place could actually happen. Things did not
happen for the sake of gore but for the sake of the plot involved. The other movies focused so
much on plot and suspense that you really got captivated into the characters. This movie lacked all
of that and left you kind of bored by the end.
The acting was decent and the directing was not even that bad but the script was just lame and the
special effects were sub par.
Warning to Parents: R rated for Nudity, Violence, Gore and Language. The nudity that takes place
is not in a sexual context but for some reason the director felt it necessary to show 2 girls in a sun
tanning machine for about 15 minutes completely naked. It was pointless and stupid. The gore
factor begins to just bore you because it seems like every scene is almost the same and the
language is really not that bad, just a few words here and there.
2 of 4 Stars
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