By John Davis

 Death just can’t catch a break with all of these clairvoyant teens popping up all over the place.  First there was the airplane incident, then the massive highway pileup, both foreseen and avoided by the premonitions of doom that saved the group.  Then Death has to come back in and do cleanup in a very grisly fashion, restoring the balance to the universe.  The third installment is really just more of the same, and if you liked the first two then you should see this one.  If not, then don’t bother.

This time the opening death sequence involves a roller coaster at an amusement park, and the physic teenager has her premonition of impending doom as she is sitting in the car about to begin the ride.  She freaks out, and demands to get out of the car, but the attendant can’t unlock just her car.  So an entire section is released.  As the 10 teenagers bitch about not getting to go on the ride, and the security guards are escorting the hysterical girl from the park, the accident happens.  The roller coaster cars fly off the track, and everyone still in them is killed.

Thus begins the formula approach, which has worked well in the first two installments.  Death comes after the survivors, who don’t really understand what is happening at first, and are freaked out by the deaths of their friends.  The death scenes in the movie are the goriest and most inventive of the series.  A new plot element is added in which warning signs begin appearing in photographs of the survivors, and this starts a kind of “Guess-how-they’re gonna die” game among the living, soon to be victims.

 Look for Ryan Merriman, the actor who played the young Jarod in the TV series “The Pretender”.  He is all grown up now and plays his role as fodder for Death quite well.

There isn’t really much more to say about this film, without revealing the details about the individual deaths.  It is a worthy addition to the line of films created by Glen Morgan and James Wong, and won’t disappoint if you saw the first two and liked them. 

Rating 4/5