| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2006

Vapid, pointless and wholly predictable.

| Original Score: C- | Mar 19, 2006

In its own morbid little way, this is very much a stand-up-and-cheer -- or shriek, as the case may be -- kind of film.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 4, 2006

Once more, Wong raises questions of fate and predestination and, while throwing in a tasteless reference to 9/11, fails to address them. It's an orgy of cheerful carnage with no context or purpose and, worst of all, no suspense.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 18, 2006

The people in this movie are some of the stupidest people in the history of movies.

Full Review | Feb 16, 2006

Death may not be quite as creative in past films, but the trick isn't in merely using a tanning bed or a nail gun to kill somebody. It's how you do it.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 13, 2006

As a horror flick, Final Destination 3 is literally laughable.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 10, 2006

The Final Destination movies may be pointless and crass, but they play on that fascination with malicious efficiency, and 3 is no exception.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 10, 2006

Fans of cheap thrills can enjoy FD3 for what it is: A ridiculous teen horror movie that piles on more than enough dry humor and freshly moistened gore to satisfy its lowbrow audience.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 10, 2006

Keeping this series of black-comedy skits fresh is a challenge that the writers don't always meet, and their expository scenes need to be nail-gunned.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 10, 2006

After a fiendish start, filmmakers James Wong and Glen Morgan approach their task with all the subtlety of a hammer to the head (or a knife to the gut, or an ax to the back).

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 10, 2006

If this film makes money, and it probably will, there may never be a final Final Destination. And that is the most disturbing thing about this movie.

| Original Score: D | Feb 10, 2006

Final Destination 3 still falls squarely into the category of guilty pleasure, but it's fashioned with a fair amount of craft. If fate should bring us another installment, let's hope it's at least as fun as this one.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 10, 2006

The original film had pathos and humor; this is gratuitous and silly rather than engaging and funny.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 10, 2006

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.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 10, 2006

Granted, nothing here is going to go down in history as a horror classic. But as far as dead-teen flicks go, this is one pretty lively affair.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 10, 2006

But worse than any of this, for the first time in three films this whole Death-is-out-to-get-you scenario is, of all things, boring.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 10, 2006

This gory sequel begins with a promising thrill ride, but by the end has become little more than a merry-go-round, spinning pointlessly in circles.

Full Review | Feb 10, 2006

At its heart, this second sequel is standard slasher stuff, though director James Wong does rise (or maybe sink) to the occasion with grisly staging.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 9, 2006

Final Destination 3 manages to push all the requisite buttons and then some.

| Original Score: B | Feb 9, 2006