In the story's one major stroke of invention, the usual premonitions of death have been replaced with a set of photos.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
Fans of the genre might appreciate the decidedly R-rated violence and nudity, but that's really all the film has to offer.
Sequelcraft 101 – if you liked the others, this is more of the same. Extra points for using a nailgun on pigeons.
Dallas Observer by Luke Y. Thompson
It makes it clearer than ever before that these films are comedy. Granted, the sick kind of comedy that involves laughing at stupid people being ripped in half, but we know there are plenty of you out there.
Austin Chronicle by Marc Savlov
A horror film (or, more accurately, a shocker film) that takes such exuberant, gleeful delight in the unspeakably gory dispatch of assorted teenagers that it may well be the most fun you'll have at the movies all week.
Rote sequel that surely no one was waiting for: Like the serially thwarted Death (the only "character" to return from the first two Final Destination movies), audiences are required to endure banal exposition and junior-high-level foreshadowing before being treated to the nauseatingly detailed scenes of CGI slaughter.
The Hollywood Reporter by Michael Rechtshaffen
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.
Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman
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.
Christian Science Monitor by Peter Rainer
There's nothing fresh or off-beat in Final Destination 3, no talent that is struggling to get out. The only thing struggling to get out was me from the theater.
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
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.