Editor Reviews:

Description:
Fasten your seatbelts and brace yourself for the "2-Disc Thrill Ride Edition" of Final Destination 3! It's the DVD that takes you on a ride BEYOND terror where YOU control your limit of fear!!

DVD Features:
Alternate endings
Audio Commentary
DVD ROM Features
Documentaries
Featurette
Other

Amazon.com:
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 that's 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, it's 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 won't give you the power to let one character live or die; it's 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 it's 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 they're in, including a section on how the original ending was scrapped in favor of a bloodier finale). It's everything you'd want to know about this movie--but who needs to know this much? A 7-minute cartoon, "It's 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 Ebert's 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 traditions of teenagers dying in horror films; some of them don't 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

Rating : - Not worth the money...
I seen this movie in the theater, and I have to say it was a big disappointment. I am a big fan of the first 2 Final Destination movies for 2 reasons. 1 being that there's never really been a movie like this before, and 2 the sequel really took what was in the first movie and kept its original integrity, as well as added something new to it. I like when movies do that. I look forward to sequels only if they start treading new ground, and come up with clever ways to make the story keep going.

This movie has none of those qualities. This is a movie sequel just for the sake of doing a sequel. Which in New Line's minds (I happen to love New Line) is a big dollar sign. I think if they would have taken their time with this movie and developed the right script and not rushed it out until it was something special, this would have been about 50 times better than the movie you see on this dvd. I look back on movies New Line has made in the past like Nightmare On Elm Street, and I think they did a good job. But this movie isn't worth the disc it's printed on. They're ruining the franchise with this garbage, much like they did with SAW. Saw is another good example of an amazing first film, and how they ruined it with sequels. This movie has turned into a complete gorefest, which I can't stand. I like horror movies, but not for Gore. I like em for just sheer terror, and darkness.

Take a movie like Halloween for instance. There's no blood or gore, the movie is about the unconscious mind, and about the setting. That is what makes the movie creepy, not how many people get killed, or how brutal they get killed. To me what made Final Destination creepy was the fact that you knew Death was coming, but didn't know how or when it was going to take someone, so you were on the edge of your seat. This movie you pretty much know when everyone is gonna die, and even have a good idea when.

I think they took a step back with this one because #1 was completely original, and then #2 was the next step, and started treading new ground. Then they stopped that momentum dead by doing a movie with no story to it whatsoever, and just made it about senseless killing. There was no mystery, no storyline to it, no motivation to any of it. You didn't know why these people are dying, so there's nothing really to resolve at the end of the movie because there's no conflict in the movie whatsoever other than death itself. At least in the other 2 they shed some insight into why these people die. That life and death has a master plan, and if you cheat death it will move onto someone else, or come back at you twice as hard.

I hear they're making #4, and honestly I've had enough. I can't stand to see them ruin another good franchise with another crappy sequel. I stopped watching SAW after #2, and I think I will stop watching this one after #3. So I wouldn't recommend this to anyone because I'm disappointed in New Line for ruining the great momentum they had with #1 and #2 with this sad disappointment of a movie.

I do however recommend #1 and #2 in the Final Destination cd because they are masterpieces in the thriller/horror genre.