If you’ve kept up with me at all on this thing here, you’d know that I’m all about Final Destination. Therefore, tt should come as no surprise to you that I ran out to see this one as soon as it was released. So what did I find? Everything that you would expect.This time the main character is Wendy, played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead. While on a class field trip to an amusement park, Wendy has a premonition that the roller coaster she waiting in line for breaks off the track and, well, people die. She freaks out. Some people get off the ride. Some people don’t. Of course, the roller coaster sure does crash and everybody on board ends up having a really bad day. Soon after, all the people that avoided the roller coaster, start dying - rather gruesomely I might add.

Here’s the thing about this series: It is what it is. Nothing more. Nothing less. The first movie struck gold with a refreshingly simple and honest formula. The second was just more of the same. No twisting the plot. No adding new elements. No devaluing the first. The third? No different. You might think this would get old. Like, what’s the point of seeing a sequel if it really just the same as the first? Right? Wrong. What makes this series so great is that it has a truly unique, almost timeless plot. The only thing that needs to change is how everybody dies and the writers are fantastic at turning even the most commonplace parts of life into nasty, gory death scenes that make you question if it’s even safe to poop!

The only real vulnerability in this formula is the characters. That’s where this third installment fails. I just didn’t connect with any of the characters. I feel like, with each installment, character development kinda got moved more to the back burner. It never even crossed my mind during the first. I noticed it a little in the second but didn’t think much of it. Here in the third, I can’t shake the feeling that something’s missing and I think that’s what it is - character development.

Other than that though, Final Destination 3 is well worth checkin’ out.

After her husband’s apparent suicide, Kyle (Jodie Foster) hops on a plane with her daughter to head back to America. During the flight, Kyle wakes from a nap and discovers that her daughter’s missing. On top of that, nobody on the plane remembers the little girl and any record of her seems to be lost. The question becomes, at least to everyone but Kyle, whether the girl was ever on the plane at all.I’ve never really been a fan of Jodie Foster but I’ll admit that I’ve never really disliked any of her movies either. Well, maybe Nell. I didn’t like Nell. On the bright side, Flightplan is definitely not Nell so we should be okay. I think. I hope. Please don’t be Nell… Please don’t be Nell…

Okay, enough about Nell. This is a very good suspense movie – Flightplan, not Nell. I’ve heard some rumblings about the implausibility of certain details of the movie but my usual argument of “Dude, it’s a MOVIE!” applies here too. The entire time, I was wondering and trying to figure out how it was going to end. It’s hard to NOT believe Kyle about her daughter when she going ape like she does. Then again, if her daughter was on the plane, where did she go? Then you start wondering if she really IS crazy. Before you know your head is spinning just trying to wrap itself around the whole thing and you start wondering if YOU’RE goin’ crazy too! No need to be alarmed though. All your questions are answered eventually. Whether or not you LIKE the answers is not my problem. And I’m not gonna ruin it for ya here. Just keep in mind that things aren’t always as they seem and enjoy the ride because it’s a good one.