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Final Destination 3

2.5 stars
By BRETT MICHEL  |  February 9, 2006
2.5 2.5 Stars
MAYBE THE THIRD TIME should really be final.If your moviegoing destination lies in the vicinity of guilty pleasures, then you’ve probably visited David R. Ellis’s Final Destination 2, the 2003 horror sequel that eclipsed the 2000 original’s conceit that death can’t be cheated and has a nasty sense of humor. Rube Goldberg fans could appreciate the use of household items as inspired instruments of extermination. More to the point, the misdirection of audience expectations elevated the thrill quotient. But series creators Glen Morgan and James Wong (of X-Files fame) don’t live up to expectations in this third run through of giddy teens trying to escape visions of diabolical doom. The opening roller-coaster disaster lacks the visceral thrill of the earlier films’ plane and car wrecks, and though things improve (if not for the doomed characters, headlined by Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Ryan Merriman), giving fans the grisly carnage they crave, perhaps this third trip should be final.
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