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Movie Overview
Cast
• Mary Elizabeth Winstead
• Ryan Merriman
• Texas Battle
Director
• James Wong
MPAA Rating
R - Strong horror violence/gore, language and some nudity
Final Destination 3 (2006)

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OFCS Rating: 47% Rotten
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B+
"There's nothing new, but in the case of the Final Destination films, new is not necessary."  FromTheBalcony  Bill Clark

4/10
"Wong and Morgan: your diminished returns are ready. Get 'em while they're hot."  Bloody Disgusting  Brian Juergens

D
"To get to the good stuff, you have to sit through atrocious dialog, amateur acting, and a snail's pace, and maybe there's 15 minutes of good material here."  FilmJerk.com  Brian Orndorf

B
"Whether conscious or not on the part of the filmmakers, the gory logic follows America's understandable desire to rationalize the effects of such physical violence that its invisible soldiers are suffering in Afghanistan and Iraq."  ColeSmithey.com  Cole Smithey

"The third film is pretty much what you expect: heads popped and brains yuckily visible. "  PopMatters  Cynthia Fuchs

4/5
"It's official: this is a horror series that actually won't disappoint."  eFilmCritic.com  David Cornelius

3/4
"...an entertainingly shallow, undeniably mindless horror flick."  Reel Film Reviews  David Nusair

2/4
"Absent of the edgy suspense, creativity and thoughtful moments of existentialism that had previously made this horror series more than just a cheap study in evisceration and decapitations."  TheMovieBoy.com  Dustin Putman

.5/4
"A reminder of how low a filmmaker will sink to pander to our most corrupt tendencies."  Slant Magazine  Ed Gonzalez

B
"The series has made it work with macabre humor and devilishly clever setups."  EricDSnider.com  Eric D. Snider

2/4
"After the third body is completely crushed into salsa chunks, someone from the audience should be allowed to scream 'SEEN IT!'"  eFilmCritic.com  Erik Childress

C
"The series has gotten to the point where there is now effectively Nothing to See Here."  Film Blather  Eugene Novikov

"I'm not sure how much more overkill this franchise can take ...."  DVD Review  Felix Gonzalez Jr.

1.5/4
"Convincingly pointless and breezy in its hedonistic hokum...Hence, the third time around is not the charm for this foolish and faceless fright flick."  Movie Eye  Frank Ochieng

C-
"The gnawing familiarity of the formula has caught up with the series. Perhaps it's time that Morgan and Wong took the first word of the title seriously and moved on."  One Guy's Opinion  Frank Swietek

2.5/4
"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."  ReelViews  James Berardinelli

"Planes, trains, automobiles, the Final Destination franchise has them covered. Is there no safe place for precocious, horny teenagers to hang out and have a good time?"  Light Views  John Larsen

3.0/4.0
"... isn't for everyone, but those in the know who like their horror served up R-rated and over-the-top, Final Destination 3 delivers..."  MovieCrypt.com  Kevin A. Ranson

3.5/5
"it's easily the funniest movie of the year"  7M Pictures  Kevin Carr

B-
"It's a surprise, really, that this entry is as much fun as it is, but trilogy looks about as far as this destination can go."  Reeling Reviews  Laura Clifford

4/5
"Spiritually fulfilling? No. Cool as hell? Yes."  Monsters At Play  Lawrence P. Raffel

3/4
"With its third outing, the Final Destination series surprisingly gets a second wind."  Mark Reviews Movies  Mark Dujsik

"[A]n unredeemably sadistic film that makes a joke of horrific death. There is absolutely no point to this film except inciting audiences to new levels of bloodlust..."  Flick Filosopher  MaryAnn Johanson

2/5
"James Wong makes his return to the series he started, after bowing out for 2003's lackluster sequel, only to essentially remake the first film."  Film Threat  Michael Ferraro

2/5
"This film is the least of the three: it lacks the novelty of the first film and the cleverly morbid humor of the second one."  Goatdog's Movies  Michael W. Phillips, Jr.

2.5/4
"Fans of the series won't be terribly disappointed, but if there's an FD4, I hope they have the sense to scale things back just a little bit. Comparing FD3 to the original proves that a modicum of restraint is most effective."  Aisle Seat  Mike McGranaghan

C-
"Vapid, pointless and wholly predictable."  Lessons of Darkness  Nick Schager

3.5/5
"With inventive ideas like this, the series can clearly run and run. But they really need to take it to another level now."  Shadows on the Wall  Rich Cline

2/5
"This one regresses the series to what Roger Ebert, back in the splatter-film '80s, dubbed the Dead Teenager genre."  eFilmCritic.com  Rob Gonsalves

3.5/5
"The Final Destination series caters to its target audience without insulting it -- which is why the flicks make so much damn money."  eFilmCritic.com  Scott Weinberg

C-
"... there's no suspense or tension and little gallows humor, merely dead space between the next spectacular spray of blood and body parts."  Seattle Post-Intelligencer  Sean Axmaker

3/4
"You have all the ingredients here of the pernicious id roiling in the secret think-pan of most thoughtful Americans."  Film Freak Central  Walter Chaw
OFCS Rating: 47% Rotten
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