This movie loses touch with the first two in that there isn’t any connection, other than the fact that those who got off of an ill-fated roller coaster just before it plunged several students to their deaths manage to look up the initial incident on the internet (there is only a brief mention of the second group). But it stays fairly close to the basic premise of the series.

With the first movie, Final Destination, student Alex sees his plane crash horribly just after takeoff, and as a result gets himself and several friends thrown off of the plane, only to see his other friends die as the plane goes down just as he saw in his vision. With the second, Final Destination 2, Alex is gone, but Clear, his girlfriend from the first movie, helps guide the “lucky” few who avoided a terrible freeway crash through their final days.

While the second batch of survivors happened one year to the day after the first, this crew comes along six years later – and there is no apparent connection, which would have made for a nice tale, especially with the “End of the Line” train theme at the end. So I’m really a bit baffled at where this picks up. It seems more to me like they are just milking the franchise, which is a shame, since it started off pretty well.

Other than that, the movie is full of death, which is stepped up a notch in the gore department, as you would expect. While the deaths were each preceded with the same telltale series of events, where a seemingly uneventful happening leads to another, and another, and another, which eventually does in the next in line, it is the fact that the earlier movies had a certain suspense to them that made it interesting. This one loses that.

Rated R for strong horror violence/gore, language and some nudity.