A group of sales people are off on a retreat “team-building” weekend. The are led by an ass of a boss, Dennis (David Koechner) and are sitting in line on a high suspension bridge which is under construction. Suddenly employee Sam Lawton (Nicholas D’Agosto) has a premonition that the bridge is going to collapse killing everyone on the bridge. Sam insists everyone get off the bus and off the bridge, but his co-workers think he’s lost his mind. A group of them are saved and have cheated death. This, of course, since this is a Final Destination franchise movie, means that the lucky group is going to be killed in a freak accident one at a time, in the order they would have died on the bridge.

Ok, this is the 5th in the franchise, and the 2nd in 3D. I did watch this film in 3D and I have to say they really did do a great job using the 3D, and the opening credits were extremely impressive. Now, I really enjoyed this film because I am a fan of the concept. But for those who aren’t, don’t waste your time, as this is the same old “figure out a way to kill somebody in a way that’s never been done before”. They use this throughout the whole movie. In addition, they use the suspenseful “whole list of things that might be what kills the guy, but something happens at the last second to throw you off” gag. Still, it’s a well done film, and very ingenious in the ways they come up with to even the “death count”. There is even a sudden twist in the end that makes it different from all the other films in the series.

If you like the freakizoid death genre, and enjoyed 1,2,3, and 4, then be sure not to miss FD5 as it’s definitely up to the standards of the rest of the films. They certainly have no shortage of interesting deaths. Be sure to stay for the ending too, where all the freaky deaths from the first movies is repeated in a montage of disaster.

==Written by Ed Goettman ==

==From: Ed's Review Dot Com (www.edsreview.com)==

Giddily gruesome and perversely entertaining, Final Destination 3 proves, yet again, that horror franchises will thrive as long as teenagers keep finding spectacular ways to die. A stand-alone sequel to the first two Final Destination thrillers, this one begins when a group of seven high-school graduates luckily escape from a deadly roller-coaster disaster, only to discover that their own deaths have been only temporarily avoided. Cute brunette Wendy (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) spots clues of impending doom in digital photos of her soon-to-be-expiring classmates, and an ill wind follows her everywhere, suggesting the presence of a supernatural force that makes her a catalyst for gory events, as each of her friends is dispatched in the order they were meant to die. Returning to give their brainchild a suspenseful, low-budget makeover, franchise creators and former X-Files writers James Wong and Glen Morgan cleverly play on our collective fears (the roller coaster sequence is genuinely terrifying) with a knowing nod to violent urban legends, which explains their inclusion of the '70s hit "Love Roller Coaster" on the soundtrack when two stuck-up girlfriends pay an ill-fated visit to a tanning parlor. And that's just for starters: With Wong as director, FD3 serves up its grisly deaths with tight pacing and humor, and the cathartic carnage is discreetly edited yet gory enough to satisfy hardcore horror buffs. When morbid mayhem is this much fun, it's a safe bet that another sequel is just around the corner. --Jeff Shannon