Final Destination 3 2006

Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: Final Destination 3 is junk, and proud of it, but it certainly delivers what it promises. Read more

Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times: The Final Destination movies may be pointless and crass, but they play on that fascination with malicious efficiency, and 3 is no exception. Read more

Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: You can't cheat death. (But apparently you can cheat audiences over and over.) Read more

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: The people in this movie are some of the stupidest people in the history of movies. Read more

Randy Cordova, Arizona Republic: Granted, nothing here is going to go down in history as a horror classic. But as far as dead-teen flicks go, this is one pretty lively affair. Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: Week in and week out, horror movies cheat us, so it's wonderfully cathartic to watch a bunch of kids cheat death in what turns out to be the best installment yet in the Final Destination franchise. Read more

Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: Not having seen Final Destination (1 or 2), I am perhaps not in the best position to judge Final Destination 3. On the other hand, I know a stinker when I see one. Read more

Tom Long, Detroit News: If this film makes money, and it probably will, there may never be a final Final Destination. And that is the most disturbing thing about this movie. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: It's an escalating contest of can-you-top-this brutality, with each death staged as the final link in a Rube Goldberg chain reaction. Read more

John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: Final Destination 3 still falls squarely into the category of guilty pleasure, but it's fashioned with a fair amount of craft. If fate should bring us another installment, let's hope it's at least as fun as this one. Read more

Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: Final Destination 3 manages to push all the requisite buttons and then some. Read more

Chuck Wilson, L.A. Weekly: Each demise serves as a testament to a refreshingly old-fashioned villain -- not another nut-job human with a saw, but a dedicated ghoul with a job to complete. Read more

Gene Seymour, Newsday: You could condemn such a movie for being such a smirking, calculatedly cheesy gore-fest. But that would presume that the movie aspires to be anything else. Read more

Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: The plot has more holes in it than the victims, but the shocks make up for the flaws. Don't think, just watch, and expect a wild ride. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: After a fiendish start, filmmakers James Wong and Glen Morgan approach their task with all the subtlety of a hammer to the head (or a knife to the gut, or an ax to the back). Read more

Nathan Lee, New York Times: It's more dead teenagers and lunatic determinism in this grim third installment of the enjoyably preposterous Final Destination franchise. Read more

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Might this be the final Final Destination? Don't bet on it. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: If you're a Final Destination fan, it's unlikely that #3 will disappoint. If you like horror/thrillers with plenty of cartoonish blood and gore, this will hit the spot. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The problem with FD3 is since it is clear to everyone who must die and in what order, the drama is reduced to a formula in which ominous events accumulate while the teenagers remain oblivious. Read more

Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle: Fans of cheap thrills can enjoy FD3 for what it is: A ridiculous teen horror movie that piles on more than enough dry humor and freshly moistened gore to satisfy its lowbrow audience. Read more

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Gore fans will doubtless enjoy the film, which could spin off several more sequels. After all, Death is the one villain you can't ever kill off. Read more

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Susan Walker, Toronto Star: As a horror flick, Final Destination 3 is literally laughable. Read more

Mike Clark, USA Today: At its heart, this second sequel is standard slasher stuff, though director James Wong does rise (or maybe sink) to the occasion with grisly staging. Read more

Justin Chang, Variety: A desultorily plotted affair that feels less like a thriller than a homicidal checklist. Read more

Mark Holcomb, Village Voice: The notion of butchery as a spectator event notwithstanding, there's an almost admirably workmanlike quality to the way co- scenarists Glen Morgan and James Wong set up their characters for carnage like so many fleshy bowling pins. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: With a premise as cavalier as this, perhaps director James Wong could have found a tone more original than post-Wes Craven cynicism. Instead, he panders to viewers, allowing them to take gleeful comfort in the destruction of the stupid and doomed. Read more