It has death scenes that are often brutal to watch & the best finale of the series so far. It has a more varied cast that do mostly ok in their roles even if a few are walking caricatures. So, alongside Kevin sets about scuppering Death’s plan.įinal Destination is a slight improvement over the second movie in some ways. Wendy realises that pictures she took before boarding the coaster hold clues as to how each person will die. He manages to convince her (after a particular nasty tanning bed death) that the same thing is happening to them. One of the survivors of the coaster, Kevin (Merriman) approaches Wendy & tells her all about flight 180. The remaining survivors are killed off in contrived & laughably elaborate ways. Weeks later (Death is nice enough to wait a little while) & the Final Destination box-ticking continues.
Unfortunately, her boyfriend isn’t allowed off & shortly afterwards the coaster crashes killing everyone on it. This isn’t over-thinking it, it’s a very obvious issue.Īnyway, she snaps out of the premonition, freaks out resulting in her & a group of her classmates kicked off the ride. It makes no sense & the excuse that you shouldn’t over-think these movies is rubbish. It’s not to swerve the viewer as we know this is just the standard premonition. So how is it that she can have full on conversations & an attempt to save herself within the premonition? We know that it isn’t what will actually happen & that she is just seeing it as she is presumably zoned out. Now what puzzles me about this is that this is supposed to be a premonition about how her & her friends will die. It also starts a new trend for the series…long premonitions. The speed of the coaster & wild camera shots makes it hard to really see what is going on. Of the entire franchise it has to be said that this particular multi-death sequence is the least appealing of the bunch. While boarding she has a premonition that shows the coaster’s safety features failing during the ride killing everyone on board. Wendy Christensen (Winstead) is visiting an amusement park with her boyfriend & high school classmates where the main attraction is the Devil’s Flight roller coaster. You can read our review of the first film here & the second film here. Final Destination 3 changes very little to a formula that was feeling tired in the second movie. Those hoping for fresh ideas are better off looking elsewhere. The third film in the Final Destination franchise saw original director James Wong return alongside an all new cast led by Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Ryan Merriman.