Final Destination 3 [Blu-ray] starring
Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ryan
Merriman, Kris Lemche, Alexz
Johnson, Sam Easton
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Giddily gruesome and perversely entertaining, Final Destination 3 proves,
yet again, that horror franchises will thrive as long as teenagers keep
finding spectacular ways to die. A stand-alone sequel to the first two Final
Destination thrillers, this one begins when a group of seven high-school
graduates luckily escape from a deadly roller-coaster disaster, only to
discover that their own deaths have been only temporarily avoided. Cute
brunette Wendy (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) spots clues of impending doom
in digital photos of her soon-to-be-expiring classmates, and an ill wind
follows her everywhere, suggesting the presence of a supernatural force
that makes her a catalyst for gory events, as each of her friends is
dispatched in the order they were meant to die. Returning to give their
brainchild a suspenseful, low-budget makeover, franchise creators and
former X-Files writers James Wong and Glen Morgan cleverly play on our
collective fears (the roller coaster sequence is genuinely terrifying) with a
knowing nod to violent urban legends, which explains their inclusion of the
70s hit Love Roller Coaster on the soundtrack when two stuck-up
girlfriends pay an ill-fated visit to a tanning parlor. And thats just for
starters: With Wong as director, FD3 serves up its grisly deaths with tight
pacing and humor, and the cathartic carnage is discreetly edited yet gory
enough to satisfy hardcore horror buffs. When morbid mayhem is this
much fun, its a safe bet that another sequel is just around the corner. --Jeff
Shannon On the DVD
As befits a horror franchise heavily invested in the idea of fate, the Final
Destination 3 disc carries a Choose Their Fate option. In other words, you
can watch the movie with occasional choices offered; click on one of two
alternatives, and see that version play out. This wont give you the power to
let one character live or die; its more like deciding whether somebody
honks her horn twice in a scene, calls heads or tails on a coin flip, or
pushes the thermostat to 72 degrees or 76. Not exactly life-changing, but
its kind of fun. The bonus disc includes a 90-minute making of feature
called Kill Shot, which covers the production of the movie in exhausting
detail (honest detail, too: filmmakers James Wong and Glen Morgan are
funny and blunt about the business theyre in, including a section on how
the original ending was scrapped in favor of a bloodier finale). Its
everything youd want to know about this movie--but who needs to know
this much? A 7-minute cartoon, Its All Around You, is an amusing
meditation on bad luck and laws of probability, while a 25-minute featurette
called Dead Teenager Movie spins off from Roger Eberts theory about the
rigid formula of a certain kind of horror film (Ebert weighs in on the subject
himself). A few experts opine on the tr aditions of teenagers dying in horror
films; some of them dont seem to be aware that the formula pre-dated the
first Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Audio commentaries, special effects
sidebars, and trailers fill out this needlessly authoritative disc. --Robert
Horton
Final Destination 3 is no question, the bloodies and goriest of all the Final
Destination movies, but its also one of the funnest.
Unlike the other 2 Final Destination films, this one has a surprise ending
that ponders the question of who makes it out, if anybody at all.
FD3 revolves around Wendy, a senior in high school who has premonition
about an accident that will kill everyone on a rollcoster on Senior Night.
She gets off the rollercoster and so do about 8 other people, including her
sister.
what follows are clues that lead to the deaths of the group that got off, lots
of surprises, and lots and lots of gore and blood. The death scenes are all
original and very cool.
the movie itself is a very good Saturday Night popcorn movie, worth
watching.
the special features are awesome. On the 2nd disk, you get an 11 part
making of Final Destination 3 that includes audition tapes and tons of
behind the scene sort of stuff, like how they shot the roller coster scenes,
inside the Home Depot looking store, the cast molds for death shots, and
how Mary Elizabeth Winstead is such a great actress and how challening it
was to make such an emotional film. Those tears by the way, are real
tears, shes that good of an actress.
there is also a short animated film worth watching, and a look back at the
Teen Death movies, from Freddy Kruger to Jason.
overall, good popcorn movie, great special features, well worth your
money.
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