Final Destination 3

Plot synopsis:
The movie opens with Wendy Christensen (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), an obsessive-compulsive driven high school graduate from McKinley High, photographing her friends on a ride called the "High Dive". Shortly after she takes their picture, she notices the letter "V" missing out of the ride name, but thinks nothing of it. As the beginning of the movie progresses, we're introduced to several characters, including Wendy's boyfriend Jason Wise (Jesse Moss), her best friend Carrie Dreyer (Gina Holden), and her boyfriend Kevin Fischer (Ryan Merriman), as well as several other characters; the jock Lewis Romero (Texas Battle), the valley-girlesque Ashley Freund and Ashlyn Halperin (Chelan Simmons and Crystal Lowe), the social outcasts Ian McKinley and Erin Ulmer (Kris Lemche and Alexz Johnson), as well as Wendy's attitude-laden sister Julie (Amanda Crew) and the troublesome alumnus Frankie Cheeks (Sam Easton). They all begin to make their way to the roller coaster, which has a demon-like figure at the front and a dark, foreboding voice warning them of the ride ahead. This causes Wendy to begin feeling uneasy, even as she's taking pictures for the yearbook.The group begins boarding onto the roller coaster, with Jason getting divided from everyone else, as he sits in the front car with Carrie, while the others sit in the back. Lewis is attended to by the ride attendant to adjust his shoulder pads, and this sets off a slight leak in a hydraulic pipe on the car, unnoticed by staff. Frankie hides a video camera in his pocket as Wendy's camera is pocketed by Kevin, sitting next to her. The ride begins and soon turmoil erupts as the leak continues and Frankie's camera is knocked away by Ashley, wrapping itself around the track. It's run over, causing the leak to become worse and the ride's shoulder belts to become loosened. One car suddenly jars entirely off the track, and others begin dropping off left and right. The ride suddenly stops upside down, forcing Ian and Erin to hang and eventually fall to their deaths. Kevin and Wendy motion the ride to go backward, but in doing so, Kevin is cut in half and Wendy is dumped onto the track...Then Wendy wakes up and realizes it is all a premonition. She's still sitting in the car as it gets ready to move. She becomes hysterical and demands to be let off, and the attendant releases all the seats in the rear car. Wendy and Kevin exit, and soon the others follow, out of annoyance (and because Lewis starts a fight with Kevin). Jason asks to be let off as well, but the ride continues with him and the people in the front car still sitting in it. Attendees lead a terribly upset Wendy outside and the coaster crashes, as predicted, leading to the deaths of Jason, Carrie, and several others.Some time afterwards, Wendy is at the school and is confronted by Kevin, concerned about her and the loss of Jason and Carrie. Wendy insists to be left alone. Ashley and Ashlyn invite her to a tanning session, and she takes their phone number. As she makes her way to her car, Kevin explains that this has happened before, with flight 180 and the seven people who got off and mysteriously died. Wendy drives off as thunder booms overhead.Ashley and Ashlyn head over to their favorite tanning salon, hoping to bronze up for the graduation. They both have slurpees, and the owner insists they throw them away, as he heads off to complete a phone call. Ashley merely pretends to throw her drink away, and they both head to the tanning room, where they proceed to disrobe. Ashley sets her drink right above a cooling unit of the tanning beds. She also reaches for a CD, leaning on a shelf and slightly loosening it on the side. The owner heads out the door, with only a tube of lotion holding it open. However, the lotion squirts out, and the door closes shut and locks.Meanwhile, Wendy is looking over the photos she took the night of the accident, after promising Julie to borrow the camera to her. Julie lends her a bracelet left behind as a family heirloom. It's then she notices a photo of Jason with a foreshadowing of the coaster behind him as it is about to hit his head, and gets an eerie feeling as the light bulb dims in and out. She then looks at the picture of Ashley and Ashlyn, which appears to be over-saturated, reminiscent of flames. She finds Ashley's number and proceeds to dial.Back at the tanning salon, Ashley's slurpee has begun to leave a water residue, which leaks into the cooling unit and forces the temperature to rise slightly. As the girls seem to notice this, a cooling fan causes a coat rack to to fall over and knock over a plant, causing the plant to fall onto the shelf and collapse. The panel from the self slides right between the handles of both beds, locking Ashley and Ashlyn in as the temperature rapidly rises. Both girls wince and scream in agony as the bulbs begin overheating and eventually breaking, causing their skin to bubble, and soon a fire breaks out, setting both beds ablaze. The owner tries to get in, but the back door is locked, and he also locked the front. The girls are burned alive in the blazing tanning beds.The next scene is at their funeral, where Ian begins questioning the preacher's comments about the equality of death and is led off by Lewis and Kevin. Afterward, Kevin finds Wendy kneeling at Jason's grave, and she begins to show him pictures that depict what's going to happen beforehand, including a picture showing a plane's shadow about to crash into the Twin Towers in New York. Suddenly, a strange wind blows over both of them, and Kevin tells Wendy he's going to get her some food.The two go to a local drive-thru restaurant, unaware that Frankie is ahead of them in his sports coupe. On the way, the two almost hit a truck in their vehicle, forcing the driver to jump aside. They get to the drive-thru of the restaurant, noticing a vehicle is pulling behind them and also to the side, blocking Wendy's exit. The sign also shows a the word "control" glitching out, and soon the radio kicks on, playing "Turn Around, Look at Me" by the Lettermen. Suddenly, Wendy and Kevin notice a driverless truck coming their way. They can't escape the vehicle, and they unknowingly honk at Frankie to move aside, only to have him flip them off. The couple behind them move their car, and they smash the windshield and jump out of the vehicle before the runaway truck hits it. The vehicles collide, forcing Kevin's car to eject its engine out of the front. It slides along the back of Frankie's car, and the fan cuts right into the back of his head, killing him. Wendy and Kevin go to check who the dead person was, and a "jolt" moment occurs when the fan spins one last time, splattering Frankie's brains all over the wall.After a talk with the coroner, Kevin and Wendy begin to calculate Death's design and who was sitting where on the roller coaster. They look over the photos and decide to pay Lewis a visit while he's in the middle of a workout. Lewis dismisses their claims and proceeds with his workout, even as Wendy points out to Kevin that his photo shows a Sultan caricature with swords, a weight dropping on his head, and a crying bear in the picture. (There's a tall bear statue and a sign with loose swords in the weight room). Lewis begins to work out with the other team members around him, causing the swords above his weight machine to rattle loose. Suddenly, one of Lewis' teammates accidentally jars a tooth out of the bear's mouth, forcing a weight lifter to drop his weights. Lewis stops for a moment, and the swords come down, missing him and instead cutting off a cable on the machine he's working on, unbeknown to Wendy, Kevin and Lewis. Lewis takes this moment of apparent victory over Death and lifts the weights one more time, only to have the the two weights on top smash his head to bits.After a conversation about the bizarre occurrences, Wendy and Kevin make their way to a hardware store where Ian and Erin work. Ian is seen shooting at pigeons with a nail gun, then sets it down. He then makes light of the events that are occurring and makes fun with Wendy and Kevin. However, soon some accidents are set into motion and a forklift begins moving and knocking objects around, and it forces it to start lifting on a wall loaded with objects, including sharpened stakes and pieces of flat plywood. As Ian theorizes about Death's design, Wendy notices the stakes, and Kevin saves him as various items begin falling down. The plywood boards soon start stacking on top of each other, and a piece of wood flies off and penentrates a bag of sawdust, blinding Erin. She ends up falling backwards and lands with the back of her head against a nail gun, and nine rounds end up getting fired through her head and hand, killing her. Wendy, Kevin and Ian stare in horror.After a visit to the police station and the disbelief that follows, Wendy and Kevin split up, with Ian unnoticeably looking at Wendy from his truck. Wendy ends up falling asleep at her house, and Julie comes along to take the lucky bracelet back, for good luck. Upon leaving, Wendy wakes up and realizes that Julie and her friend Perry snuck into the ride as well, upon identificating the bracelet in a photograph. She calls Kevin and informs him that his photo looks like something glaring, with bright lights. It's then that Kevin informs her that he's overlooking security at a colonial fair, complete with fireworks, and Wendy starts heading out the door to the fair. Soon, the song she heard at the drive-thru begins playing again, and she notices a vehicle following her. She almost hits a wolf in the middle of the road but continues to the fair.Kevin notices Julie and her friends Perry (Maggie Ma) and Amber (Ecstasia Sanders) at the fair and tries to talk to her, but she runs off after being annoyed by him. Meanwhile, an actor at the fair leaves his lighting stick in front of a cannon, knocking it sideways and forcing a cannonball to run along and knock one of the firework trailer cars off balance. Wendy shows up, suspecting Kevin might be struck by fireworks. As the show at the fair starts, and fireworks begin to go off, a couple of teenagers set off some firecrackers, startling a nearby horse. The horse begins running through the crowd, dragging a wooden stake behind him. Julie ends up getting the rope tied around her neck, and almost gets impaled on a rake that the horse jumps over. Kevin, however, manages to cut her loose. It's then that Wendy asks the frantic Julie who was sitting next to her on the roller coaster, and she glances at Perry. As Perry realizes this and begins standing up, the horse, still startled, pulls a flagpole off a trailer, which launches itself into Perry's back, killing her.After a close call with Kevin where he is nearly killed by a blazing gas leak, Julie and Wendy begin to drag him off, only to run into Ian, who thinks that he is the cause of Wendy's death (indicated by a shirt she was wearing, bearing his last name, which is also the name of their school). He confronts them as a firework cart begins wobbling and aims the fireworks right at them. The three duck as the fireworks go off, which entirely avoid Ian. Thinking he's safe and that Wendy is next, a loosened crane of a cherry picker that was struck by fireworks launches the McKinley sign downwards which cuts Ian in half. His corpse appears to be flipping off the three, and the screen fades to white.Five months later, Wendy is shown to be in another town, starting a new life with her friends. She is on board of a subway train along with them, and starts to notice advertisements of the locations the previous deaths occurred at, as well as the "Turn Around, Look at Me" song being sung by a patron. She then gets uncomfortable and tries to exit the train, but is stopped by Julie, who also boards the train. As she does, a group of football fans drop an unfinished candy bar, which misses a trash can and falls onto the tracks, where a rat begins eating it As the doors close, Wendy can't help but notice that the train's number is "081", which, in the reflection of a mirror she is looking at, reads "180", the ominous number in the franchise. She is unnerved, but sits down to talk to Julie.As they speak, she notices Kevin riding on the train as well, and goes over to ask why he's there. As he begins talking, she notices something is wrong as the lights begin to dim. Meanwhile, the rat chews on the candy bar, but gets too close to electricity and fries itself, causing the tracks to switch over. The train then goes haywire, and everyone panics as it flies off the tracks. Julie is obliterated by the train's wheel, and Kevin is thrown against a cracked window and is unable to move as it slowly begins to grow weaker. The window finally breaks and Kevin is jettisoned outside, screaming as he is violently ground between the train and tunnel wall. Wendy clings onto a pole, screaming, until the train crashes and she is thrown outside. Wendy sees that everyone is dead around her, and she crawls, seeing her leg is severely injured. Wendy begins crying and soon afterwards another train approaches her at full speed.She begins screaming and just as the train is about to hit her, it is revealed to be another premonition she had while talking to Kevin - but this time, the premonition has taken place mere seconds before the accident which it depicted. Wendy alarms Kevin and Julie about the train as Kevin grabs the emergency brake. Julie and Wendy try to pry the door open as the lights begin to flash and the screen cuts to black. The last thing heard is the crashing of the subway train.

Tags: violence, horror, gothic, sadist

Review:
I'm not gonna lie to ya, i wasn't looking forward to final destination 3.Just seeing a roller coaster full of screaming people on the poster made me roll my eyes and assume that this franchise has run out of steam .So you can imagine my surprise to find that final destination 3 is a entertaining , funny and shocking thriller that proves that horror sequels can be pretty darn good if handled properly .Directed by james wong with style and a pace that hits the ground running ,the film is very much like a roller coaster in its self - fast,packed full of laughs and most importantly full of frights .The film is essentially a remake of the first film only with a different cast, gorier deaths and a higher level of self awareness.But this is a rare case in which copying the original isn't a bad thing- it keeps that sense of inventiveness and wit that made the first one great.
It may be a clone , but its a very good one !Final destination 3 is gory ,homourous and clever fun that will make me think twice about my horror sequel prejudice.....
This movie is mainly about a senior named Wendy, which is played by Mary Winstead, who so happens to have a premonition that dealt with death while on the roller coaster.
I gave this a 9 star rating because I felt they could have focused a little more on the premonition side of the story, (it was made so important in the first two), and I almost expected to see our two survivors from the 2nd movie in this one, **I think that would have been a great addition**, on the other hand, I was extremely pleased and say it is definitely a must see for any Final Destination fan, or anyone who enjoys a great trilogy that keeps you on the edge of your seat waiting to see what might happen next!!.
The actors all do fine jobs, and the special effects are pretty much top-notch (when they're not CGI) and the pace just moves along nicely.The 2 major bad points are : The CGI - It was pretty noticeable, and it did take away some of the magic of the Roller-coaster scene,in my opinion anyway, and secondly, it was way too short and there weren't enough deaths in it!
Excellent ending though, it surprised me, I have to say.A good strong film altogether, a perfect date movie, but you'll never EVER look at a Tanning Bed (or a picture for that matter) the same way again.GO SEE IT!.
This sequel of successful original by James Wong deals with a beautiful student of a High School senior named Wendy Christensen ( Maria Elizabeth Winstead ) who along with her friends go to a theme park and decide to go on a large roller coaster .
But this time the unhappily events are built up really carefully, much more intense than in part 1.The characters were quite alright, except for the punk like dude which picture isn't on IMDb. He really acts childish and simply doesn't fit in the picture.Loved the fact that during the movie they refer to the events of part 1 and 2, that they read on the internet.
After a premonition saves a group on a roller coaster crash, the survivors begin to die off in a series of grisly accidents and forces the remaining friends to find a way of stopping the deaths from continuing.Overall this was quite an enjoyable and wholly entertaining part of the series.
And most of all I had a fun time watching it as the jump scenes were good and it was full of quite comedic lines and actually quite sexual but I am now never going on a roller-coaster, to the gym, to a drive thru (F U MAC DONALD'S) or a festival.I recommend you watch this with your friends when you are in a fun mood..
Final Destination 3 is basically the same film as Final Destination only this time its a roller coaster crash not a plane exploding that disrupts deaths plan.With some cool and very gory death scenes, an all new cast, and the same creepy, death's coming to get you feel as the first two films.
This turns out to be way better than i would have expected.I highly recommend you see the first 2 films as well, even if they aren't required viewing as far as understanding the plot goes.6/10 its the worst of the three, but only because it no longer has the freshness and originality, it is still just as much fun to watch..
They're always such a treat to watch, and, for me personally, the concept isn't tired.This probably relates to the fact the 3 films released so far have been polished efforts, and spaced out by 3 years or so between them- the series has so far managed to avoid the "lets release as many as we can as soon as we can" trap and, as yet, avoiding devolving into some half-hearted straight to video effort, as many other teen horrors (urban legend, wrong turn, i know what you did last summer) have..
"Final Destination 3" however, returns to the teen cast and is equal, if not better to "Final Destination 2".For those who are not familiar with the "Final Destination" premise, basically what happens is that there is some sort of major disaster (a plane blowing up in #1, a highway accident in #2, and a roller-coaster disaster in #3) in which a lot of people die, however, in all cases, someone has had a premonition about the disaster and thus Death's plan is changed because that person, and several others whom they are somehow involved with, are saved from the accident.
So, in "Final Destination 3" Death begins chasing the survivors of the roller coaster disaster which occurs at a theme park on a night where a high school graduation party is happening, and the survivors must try and work together to figure out the order in which they were supposed to die, and hopefully prevent their deaths a second time.The cast of "Final Destination 3" are terrific, particularly Mary Elizabeth Winstead who plays heroine Wendy, definitely one of the best horror-heroines of the past several years.
However, two very interesting points of note: firstly, unlike many horrors where you can pretty much guess who is going to die as soon as you are introduced to them, "Final Destination 3" shakes things up a little by not following that general "rule" (more horror films should also ignore this "rule").
I was beyond surprised, and quite frankly a bit disappointed (not with the ending, I thought it was great and very interesting), but just because that was the ending.All in all, a fantastic story and terrific cast make for perhaps the best entry in the "Final Destination" franchise - but if there is a fourth, will it be able to live up to the success of this one?.
final destination 3 was just brilliant in Wendy's vision the deaths were just so weird and detailed the way the safety guide came of them and they were stuck clinging for their lives .many people were expecting Kimberly to be in the 3rd one just like clear rivers appeared in the 2nd one to carry on the tale of flight 180.but Wendy and Kevin found out the tale of death stalking them on their own and that you cant escape death no matter were you go .Kevin found out about flight 180 and at first Wendy didn't believe him until the death of Ashley and her friend at the tanning salon were they are scolded alive trying to escape but fail at their funeral Wendy shows that she has taken an interest in what Kevin found out by showing him the tail of the huge crash.And that on the sign it says NEXT 180,and that how they all have the vision before it actually happens.i think that it important how they bring up flight 180 in each film .because flight 180 was the making of final destination and that death is stalking them.and also that the people who do have the visions ant strange because it has happened before.I especially like how the pictures shown how each person was going to die e.g the fan behind Frankie and how on the picture of Ashley and Ashlyn the smudge of the picture gave the effect of flames.but in this film the deaths were extremely weird,detailed and Gross.i loved it how the film ended on a cliff hanger so that you don't know if Julie Kevin and Wendy die.i felt rather sorry for Wendy's boyfriend Jason as he wanted to get of the ride but they started it so that he could not,but that I'm guessing is what its suppose to do .im just hoping that they bring out a final destination 4 and that Wendy,Kevin and Julie are in the forth thats if they are not already dead,but if they are still alive then death is still after them because Wendy didn't die and come bk alive again for it to all end like in the 1st and 2nd films,because in the first film Alex cheated death again so it started all over again and so clear rivers died in the second film instead so if they do a carry on like that were Kevin,Wendy and Julie come in the forth and death is still after them it would be fantastic and brilliant.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!but i also found it great when wendy is on the train at the end and she see's all these posters of were each person ,well were most of them died e.g the 180 sign,pheonix tanning co,build it ,the fast food restaurant ,and a sign saying there's no escaping death so you know whats gonna happen but your not sure because there's many of sharp objects around ,,,but also the deaths made me cringe e.g when the nail gun shoots the girl about 10 times and when the waits squash the mans head all the deaths were horrid but just the best at the same time but up to now i've loved all the films 100% and cant stop watching them ,plz bring out a final destination 4!!!.
All in all, I think this movie was the best of the three, and a good way to end the trilogy of Final Destination.
I love this movie.It's not a waste of time.I could watch it and watch it and never get tired.There were some sad parts like during the funerals.The main character keeps on having visions and at the end she has another one but it doesn't show if everybody dies or one survives.It was very nasty and full of blood.I love those types of movies so i enjoyed.If you like number one then you'll love this one but number one is still better because it's the first.I didn't like number two that much because it was kind of boring.I was never bored watching number three because it kept you on the edge of your seat.I give this movie ten stars because it's the best horror movie i've seen all year..
James Wong has done an excellent job at the helm once again and if you want my opinion has made the real follow up to the first Final Destination.It's a shame this third instalment couldn't have been the second and the second the third if you know what i mean as i would have been able to accept the third as a barrel scraping mess due to the lack of fresh ideas, However Mr.Wong has shot a massive injection of shock,horror and comedy into FD3 and it seems he has totally bypassed the second movie all together!I,as a massive horror fan would recommend this movie with the highest of recommendation...to say this is better than Final Destination would be an insult,however i will tell you that FD3 has all the shocks and thrills that made you watch the first over and over again!FD3 will be in my DVD collection as soon as it is available and i am sure you will feel the same coming out the cinema..
While the first one left us in utter confusion, and the 2nd one tried hard to be tricky, this one really gives us a fun task: Trying to guess HOW the person will die based on the picture.The opener is the 2nd best one in the series (Nothing beats the original's opener), and the Quantity of the deaths are better (3 good death scenes) but the Quality of them is best in the first (2 GREAT deaths).
The acting is of course third-rate but who cares, no one expects top-notch actors in these kind of flicks or really care about what happens to them, which is what makes watching movies like this all the more fun.
final destination and final destination two were okay movies but this one was the best I really hope they come out with final destination 4 but if they do that they will need to make it good but also a little different just to make it even better I really wanted to see final destination and I honestly was not disappointed so if you are reading this and you haven't seen final destination n3 please do me a favor and go see it you Will enjoy it LOts!!!.
When she is successful in getting herself and a few others off the ride, they watch in horror as it crashes.That's when Death comes for them, one by one, like the previous films in the series.
The ending is a real thrill, perhaps one of the biggest thrills in the series!Tony Todd, who played Bludworth in the first two "Final Destination" movies, is the voice the riders of the roller coaster hear while boarding..
The third was the same; Final Destination 2 might have been bloodier, but it was an altogether good movie with an ending just as up in the air as the first two films.
The best part of the movie its that you can still like it even if you have not seen the other ones it has its own story and if you are a fan of movies that are different from the usual horror flicks this one its going to have many things that you might enjoy and actually love throughout the movie its shows you many new characters that have their own faith and etc..
Another great sequel to the Final Destination Trilogy that James Wong did,this is bound to have two and a half stars like part one or may even have three stars.This was a perfect place to shoot the death of people,in a roller-coaster place.It made me sure when any of my family said want to go on the roller-coaster I said remember what happen in Final Destination 3,and they would say oh yeah.And Mr. Wong did it again to bring terror on objects that we never that that could kill us.Plus this time to find your death you find it in the pictures that Wendy took on the day the roller-coaster crashed.It explained how they're gonna die,and may I say a very good and excellent way how they died.Mr.Wong you are a smart person to make it a different way of their death.If there is going to be another Final Destination leave it to James Wong to do it because only he knows how to make it different.This had everything,horror,action,mystery,and more nudity,it was the greatest horror movie made up all thanks to Wong,three cheers for him,hooray..
This in my opinion,SMOKES the other 2 movies by so much.More gore,violence,cursing,and even a little nudity.The deaths in this one were much more creative.The director thought about the ways to die.The suspense will keep going and then when you think they are going to die,they don't.And then Splat!The storyline rocked and it featured a new addition to the Final Destination series.Some of the deaths were kind of like yeah,she's gonna get this through that,so minus 1 for that.If you loved the first two,you must buy this one.Note:You cannot see this movie without going "Oh,SICK!".
What's so great about this movie is that something like this could actually happen and that's what makes it so eerie and scary and the death sequences are realistic.
This was a great way to end the series, where the finale of the movie fits into the true style of the Final Destination films.It comes down to something you'll have to see for yourself...
As a fan of Horror Movies I was expecting this film to be rather like the first two, in that much of the gore was hinted at rather than shown (which for me ruined them), very thin characters and predictable outcome.
But Death is still going to get his, and Wendy and her classmate Kevin (Ryan Merriman) must race against time to save those who got off the roller-coaster, before they die by other means.After two exciting films, I was expecting the same thrill ride for Final Destination 3.
I still liked the movie but my experience wasn't as memorable as I was hoping it to be.The best thing about the film were the death scenes.
Also, like the other two films, it really allows the viewer to involve themselves by trying to figure out who's next and how "Death" is going to off them, although unlike the second film, it IS possible to actually do this.Final Destination 3 is one of the better horror movies I've seen since the original came out several years ago (and with all the horror films released in between that time, that's really pretty sad).
"Final Destination 3" is a very fun, atmospheric movie but doesn't really add anything new to the series.The movie is basically about Wendy (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and her friends who get on a roller coaster.