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Final Destination 3
File:Finaldestination3 bigreleaseposter.jpg
Final Destination 3 film poster
Directed byJames Wong
Written byGlen Morgan

James Wong

Jeffrey Reddick (characters)
Produced byCraig Perry
StarringMary Elizabeth Winstead
Ryan Merriman
Kris Lemche
Alexz Johnson
Amanda Crew
Texas Battle
Chelan Simmons
Crystal Lowe
Sam Easton
Maggie Ma
Music byShirley Walker
Distributed byNew Line Cinema
Release date
February 10 2006
Running time
93 minutes
LanguageEnglish
Budget~ US $34,000,000

Final Destination 3 is a 2006 horror film, and the third film in the Final Destination series. Distributed by New Line Cinema, the film was directed and written by James Wong, who co-wrote the original. It was produced by Craig Perry. The film was originally scheduled for release date on February 24, 2006; however, the date was altered to February 10, two weeks earlier than the original set release.

Plot

Wendy Christenson (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) has a premonition of a horrible roller coaster accident. Before it happens, she warns her friends to leave the coaster, which they do.

Afer they get off, the roller coaster crashes just like in her premonition. Wendy then teams up with her friend, Kevin Fisher (Ryan Merriman), as well as Erin (Alexz Johnson) and Ian (Kris Lemche) to try and cheat death.

Cast and Characters

Wendy is the popular girl and the visionary that saved everyone from dying on the roller-coaster. She was sitting next to Kevin in the roller-coaster. She´s supossed to be the last person to die in the accident and in death's list, too. She dies later when she had another permonition of a subway derailment. She tries to save the kids left alive by using some photos that she took that night.

Kevin is the class clown. He was sitting next to Wendy in the roller-coaster. He would be the 14th person to die in the accident and the ninth on Death's list. He helped Wendy try and save the survivors of the accident. Later, he died in a subway derailment with Wendy and Julie.

Ian is of the Gothic lifestyle. He´s the best friend/boyfriend of Erin. He´s a skeptical boy that uses his intelligence in a sarcastic way and has a good idea of death and other things. He was sitting next to Erin on the roler-coaster. He's supossed to be the twelfth person to die, and on Death's list he would be the fifth to die, but Kevin saved him and he died seventh.

Erin is the biggest, most sterotypical Goth and class freak. She´s the best friend/girlfriend of Ian. She is a very clever girl and bitingly sarcastic. She was sitting next to Ian on the roller-coaster. She´s supposed to be the thirteenth person to die on the roller-coaster, and on Death's list she would be the sixth to die.

Lewis is one of the greatest athletes in the high school. He doesn't believe that Death is chasing them. He was sitting alone on the coaster. He would be the eleventh person to die on the coaster, and the fourth person to die on Death's list.

Franklin Cheeks is a gradute that still goes to high school events to video tape girls. He was in the roller-coaster behind Ashley and Ashlyn. Nobody was sitting next to him. He would be the tenth to die on the roller coaster, and the third one on Death's list.

Ashlyn is the stereotypical Beauty Queen. She was sitting next to Ashley on the roller-coaster. She´s supposed to be ninth to die on the roller coaster, and the second to die on Death's list.

Ashlee is the typical blonde, head cheerleader. She was sitting next to Ashlyn on the roller-coaster. She would be the eighth person to die on the roller-coaster, and the first to die on Death's list.

Julie is the sister of Wendy. She is not a Senior like the others, but she was on the ride, next to her friend, Perry. She would be the fourteenth person to die on the roller-coaster, and the seventh person on Death's list. Death skipped Julie when Kevin saved her from death, but five months later she dies with Wendy and Kevin in a subway derailment.

Perry is one of Julie's friends. She only appears briefly in the movie. She would be the fifteenth person to die on the roller-coaster, and eighth to die on Death's list.

She´s not a major character in the movie, only a friend of Julie. Since she was never in the roller-coaster, she was never marked for death.

Jason was Wendy´s boyfriend. He dies on the roller coaster. He was sitting in the front seat, next to Carrie.

Carrie was the girlfriend of Kevin. She dies on the roller-coaster. She was sitting in the front seat of the roller-coaster, next to Jason.

Reporter for GNN, boyfriend of Nathalie Lake

Famous real life singer, assists Byron, Barbara during their escape from Las Vegas

Deaths

General Casey (Bill Cosby): Incinerated by Martian ray gun Dr Ziegler (Jack Nicholson ): Incinerated by Martian ray gun off-screen Billy Glenn Norris (Luke Wilson): Incinerated by Martian ray gun Jason Stone (Martin Short): Incinerated by Martian ray gun off-screen

Original Design

at the coaster & The ray guns

  • Row 1 Carrie and Jason
  • Row 2 General Casey, Dr Ziegler, Billy Glenn Norris & Jason Stone
  • Row 3 Congress
  • Row 4 Jerry Ross, Rusty the dog & Martian Girl
  • Row 5 Ashley and Ashlyn
  • Row 6 Frank
  • Row 7 Lewis
  • Row 8 Erin and Ian
  • Row 9 Julie and Perry
  • Row 10 Marsha, Art, Maurice, The Parents Of Norris & Sharona
  • Row 11 Rude Gambler, General Deckner, Mitch, James Dale, Natalie & Donald Kessler
  • Row 12 Wendy and Kevin

Actual Deaths

  • Ashley Freund and Ashlyn Halperin

Ashley and Ashlyn decide that they should get a tan for graduation. Ashley brings her slurpee into the room with them, against rules, and the two lay down in their tanning beds. Meanwhile, Wendy discovers something weird involving Ashley and Ashlyn’s picture, and she attempts to phone them. Ashley’s slurpee drips water down into the heater controlling the tanning beds, slowly causing the temperature to rise. Ashley’s cell phone starts vibrating in her jacket pocket causing the coat hanger to topple over into a plant which topples into the loosened CD rack. The CD rack falls onto Ashley’s bed. As she pushes her door open, the CD rack slides into the handle of Ashlyn’s tanning bed, and as Ashlyn lifts her door, the other side locks in place in the handle of Ashley’s door handle, locking the two doors shut. As the temperature continues to rise, the lamps in the tanning beds begin to burst, and the girls slowly are burnt alive. Soon enough, the two are engulfed in flames, and they die while the tanning beds begin to melt and the painting behind them catches fire.

Clues/ Notes: Ashley and Ashlyn’s picture hint at their death. In it, they are playing a water gun game. A red light from a ride behind them (The One-Eighty) is flashing, distorting the picture with a red wave of light, making it look like Ashley and Ashlyn were on fire.

It is strange that both of them have "Ash" in their names.

When Ashlyn takes protective goggles from a jar filled with liquid, the jar says, "Sterile Goggles-Caution. Alcohol is Flammable.

The song, "Love Rollercoaster" by The Ohio Players is the song the two girls are listening to as they tan. It is ironic because they were originally menat to die on a rollercoaster.

As Wendy tries to contact Ashlyn on her cell phone, the light bulb inside the lamp next to the computer explodes suddenly, just like the bulbs in the tanning booths that begin exploding.

  • Frank Cheek

While in a drive-thru, Frank gets killed when a runaway truck speeds down a hill, turning right into the drive-thru and smashing full-force into Kevin's truck which is right behind Frankie's convertible. The momentum causes the engine of Kevin's truck to shoot out. The motor fan detaches itself and is sent spinning forwards into Frank's convertible. Frank's head is whiplashed backwards into the still spinning motor fan blades, decapitating him.

Clues/ Notes: Frank’s picture hints at his death. In it, a fan is hanging over his head, and due to the distortion of the picture, it looks as if the blades are cutting into his neck.

As Wendy and Kevin look at the electronic menu, the word "control" flickers out. Throughout the book, following the coaster crash, Wendy feels as if she's losing control of the situation.

Just before the large truck smashes into Kevin's truck, his radio begins playing "Turn Around, Look at Me" by The Letterman. As they turn around, they finally notice the runaway truck rolling down the hill at them.

  • Lewis Romero

While lifting dumbbells at the gym, Lewis is killed when he slips on some spilled energy drink, dropping the two dumbbells. He trips over one of them and falls backwards. His head lands on the poorly locked weights of the leg press he'd been using earlier. The second dumbbell hits the lock of the machine, causing it to snap, and the 1080-pound weights plummet down on Lewis’ head, crushing it like a water balloon.

Clues/ Notes: Lewis’ picture hints at his death. In it, he is hunched down at the strong-man game. He has just hit the plank, and the weight is zooming to the top of the bar, but due to distortion, it looks as if it may be coming down. Lewis' head is not visible as he is bent over from behind.

Just as Lewis' head is crushed, Wendy looks down at his iPod, taking note of the song that is playing: "Lose Control" by Missy Elliot. Throughout the book, following the coaster crash, Wendy feels as if she's losing control of the situation.

  • Erin Ulmer

As several boards and debris topple down from the shelves on Ian, Kevin, and Wendy, one of the sharp stakes is sent spinning at the sawdust bag, popping it and spraying the sawdust into Erin’s eyes. As she falls backwards over the forklift, the back of her head hits the nozzle of a hydraulic nail gun, which pumps a dozen nails through Erin’s cheeks, chin, and lips. Her left hand is also pinned to her face by different nails that stick through her palm, and one of the nails also manages to shoot straight outwards of her open eye, deflating it as she slowly dies.

Clues/ Notes: Erin’s picture hints at her death. In it, she is holding an air rifle from the shooting range and her hand is over her face like it was when she dies.

Prior to the accident, Kevin took notice of a NIИ (Nine Inch Nails) sticker on Ian's car.

Prior to the accident, Erin's talking to someone on a phone, referring to a customer as a pinhead, referring to the nails that impale the back of her head.

Erin was supposed to die after Ian, but he was intervened from the falling wooden stakes.

  • Perry Malinowski

Seconds after Julie is almost impaled on the rusty wheat-thresher, the horse who was dragging her breaks free of the flagpole it was tied to. The flagpole springs backwards like a bow and launches forwards out of the ground with the flag wavering behind it, spearing through the air before impaling Perry from behind, jabbing through her back and out from her chest. The brass eagle at the tip of the flag pole erupts from her sternum, coated with lung tissue and blood, which soak through the flag that is sticking out from behind her.

Clues/ Notes: Perry’s picture hints at her death. In it, she is wearing a t-shirt with an American eagle and a flag on it; the flag she was speared with had an eagle decoration on it.

The flag that killed Perry read "Liberty or Death".

Perry was supposed to die after Julie, but she was intervened after being dragged along by a runaway horse and almost dragged into a wheat thresher. Kevin cut the rope just before then, skipping Julie.

In Julie's picture, she is wearing a t-shirt with a silhouette of a rearing horse on it.

  • Ian McKinley

Ian is killed shortly after the stray fireworks shoot at Wendy, Kevin, and Julie. As the three of them duck, all four fireworks zoom up to meet Ian, but swerve upwards together at the last second, leaving Ian stunned. The four fireworks land together at the base of the cherry picker behind Ian, and as they explode together, they severe a cord that holds the basket at the top. The cherry picker basket then plunges straight downwards. Ian looks up in time to cross his arms in an X in a weak defense before he is pile-driven into the soft earth. Blood pools up from under the basket as the McKinley sign flutters down and rests on Ian's arm, marking his grave

Rating

Final Destination 3 was rated R by the MPAA for strong horror violence/gore, language, and some nudity. It received a 15 certificate for the same reasons in the United Kingdom. In Germany, it received an 18 certificate, in contrast to the 16 received by the first two installments, due to the increased relative intensity of violence and gore.

Response

Final Destination 3 was successful both on film and DVD. The film was released in the United States on February 10, 2006, and opened at #2, showing across 2,880 screens with an opening weekend slightly under $20 million U.S. dollars averaging to a little under $6,940 per theater. As of April 16, 2006, FD3 had made $54,098,051 stateside, though the movie continued to screen across the country for another seven weeks after domestic tallies closed. The film grossed even more in foreign markets, raking in over $59 million as of Early August. Worldwide recorded gross has now reached approx. $113,270,000 so far, outperforming both the original and first sequel in the series. As of late October 2006, Japan gross tallies have yet to be calculated. The DVD rentals reached nearly $45 million, making FD3 the longest running video in the top 50 chart of October 29 (boxofficemojo) and the 4th best grosser of the 50 films on the list.

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film was rated at 46%.[1] The original two films received equally poor scores. Besides deriding the film for the high level of violence and the reference to the attacks on the World Trade Center in September 2001, a common complaint directed at the film was that it failed to offer anything new. The BBC awarded a rare 1 star out of 5[2], after awarding the first installment four stars and the second three. The USA theater will be on October 13 2008

References

  1. ^ Rotten Tomatoes
  2. ^ BBC Review

External links

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