FINAL DESTINATION 3

Near the diploma conferment, the students of McKinney High School go to the amusement park to celebrate the event. The main attraction is represented by "Devil's Flight", a monumental complex of roller coasters. While a group of guys are about to take their place in the carriages of the devil's flight, Wendy has a premonition in which she witnesses their death due to a malfunction of the tracks. The girl is about to get off the carriage and warns the other passengers as well: some of them follow her, others believe she just wants to attract attention to herself. But the disaster occurs and the guys who escaped death will die one by one from "accidents" atrocious. It was the year 2000 and the passengers of flight 180 bound for Paris, who escaped the tragic accident announced by one of them, found death, or rather, Death found them, a few days later. Year 2003: the story repeats itself and the survivors of the road accident on the State Highway 23, near exit 180, remain killed by strange and deadly coincidences. Three years after the last appointment with Death, the creators of the first film try again and put into action the same narrative structure as the previous episodes, with the variant of the initial accident that this time takes place in an amusement park (but it would be more correct to talk about two accidents!) and the technique that the protagonists use to prevent the deaths. Naturally, as in the previous films, you have to know how to catch the signs to escape death, but this time it will be simple photographs that suggest to the protagonists the horrible deaths that will touch the survivors. The spectacular initial accident unfortunately does not hold up (for spectacularity and ferocity) to the one staged in the second film of the saga, but it still defends itself very well, especially thanks to the originality of the situation. "Final destination 3" is a simple commercial operation stemming from the excellent results of the previous chapters, so the creators of the film, aware of this and of the fact that the first film alone was enough to adequately explain the story, have thrown themselves headlong into the choreography and the originality of the deaths, managing to distract the viewer from a poor and repetitive plot. Indeed, it is here the limit of "Final destination 3": a story not at all original, which does nothing but retrace in broad outline that of the two previous films without obvious innovations (the producers will have thought: why change a winning format!). However, in this case a total flatness of the characters and an overly hasty development of the plot are also noted, surely more engaged in the staging of the deadly accidents than in the psychological delineation of the protagonists. But let's not lie to ourselves: which viewer chooses to go see the third chapter of "Final destination" with the intention of watching an original story and a character development? Rather, one hopes to watch a gruesome slaughter based on improbable accidents at the expense of stupid and unpleasant characters; and that happens punctually. The accidents staged in "Final destination 3" are simply brilliant, they manage to exaggerate the situation to the unbelievable to conclude, often and willingly, with very bloody deaths. The direction has returned to the hands of James Wong, already engaged behind the camera of the first episode; while the screenplay is the work of Glen Morgan (director of "Willard") and Wong himself. Among the interpreters, only unknown faces and young actors can be seen, including Mary Elizabeth Winstead, in the role of the protagonist, and Ryan Merriman. In conclusion, "Final destination 3" is a simple and essential splatterstick horror, not very original but extremely entertaining. Recommended especially to those looking for ninety minutes of absolute entertainment. Curiosity. The actor Tony Todd, known to the horror audience for having portrayed the character of "Candyman" and Ben in the remake of "Night of the Living Dead", had become a regular presence also in the "Final destination" saga, in the role of a mysterious man who gives advice and information about Death. But in this third chapter, since the action moves to another city, it was preferred not to include his character. However, to create continuity with the saga and to make fans happy, the actor appears anyway, lending his voice to the giant devil who lures customers into the "Devil's flight".