Final Destination 3 Critic Reviews

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Boston Globe | Wesley MorrisAdd Critic to Favorites

Week in and week out, horror movies cheat us, so it's wonderfully cathartic to watch a bunch of kids cheat death in what turns out to be the best installment yet in the "Final Destination" franchise.Read the full review

ReelViews | James BerardinelliAdd Critic to Favorites

With each new outing, the Final Destination movies are getting better.Read the full review

The Hollywood Reporter | Michael RechtshaffenAdd Critic to Favorites

The plot's pretty lame, the dialogue is downright hokey, and the characters are a bore, but somehow Final Destination 3 (an oxymoron if there ever was one) still delivers a certain degree of over-the-top amusement.Read the full review

Entertainment Weekly | Owen GleibermanAdd Critic to Favorites

What makes all of this ''fun,'' instead of dark or threatening, is that the victim was an idiot who leered at the class teases with horny glee.Read the full review

USA Today | Mike ClarkAdd Critic to Favorites

Movies of this genre don't often engage fresh concepts, but you have to give Wong major points for dreaming up "tan-line flambé."Read the full review

Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites

The problem with "FD3" is since it is clear to everyone who must die and in what order, the drama is reduced to a formula in which ominous events accumulate while the teenagers remain oblivious.Read the full review

Variety | Justin ChangAdd Critic to Favorites

In the story's one major stroke of invention, the usual premonitions of death have been replaced with a set of photos.Read the full review

San Francisco Chronicle | Peter HartlaubAdd Critic to Favorites

A ridiculous teen horror movie that piles on more than enough dry humor and freshly moistened gore to satisfy its lowbrow audience.Read the full review

The New York Times | Nathan LeeAdd Critic to Favorites

The third installment lacks the novelty of the first, the panache of the second and the twisted sense of humor that gives the series its participatory sense of fun.Read the full review

Washington Post | Desson ThomsonAdd Critic to Favorites

With a premise as cavalier as this, perhaps director and co-writer James Wong could have found a tone more original than post-Wes Craven cynicism. Instead, he panders to viewers, allowing them to take gleeful comfort in the destruction of the stupid and doomed.Read the full review

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