Final Destination 3 (R)
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This came out in 2006, but I didn't see it until 2022. It's the third film in the Final Destination franchise, following Final Destination 2. The DVD has a special feature that allows you to make decisions at several points about how the story will go, but I didn't try that feature, and have little interest in it. Also, watching the movie's theatrical version, there were points where the movie briefly paused, which was a bit distracting. (At one point I even got a glimpse of an alternate scene, which was surely just a defect in the used DVD I was watching.) I also need to mention there are several bonus features that weren't available to me on this 2-disc set, apparently because they are only available if you play the discs on a DVD-ROM drive. Sadly, my current computer doesn't have one of those. (I guess they're also available on a special kind of DVD player that I don't have.) Anyway, on the whole I thought the movie was okay. It's the same old plot from the first two movies: A group of people survive a near death experience, and Death spends the rest of the movie killing them in gruesome ways. So it has a "been there, done that" feel to it. But I guess the actual circumstances were different enough that I didn't feel like watching it was a complete waste of time.

It begins at an amusement park, where a graduating class of high school seniors are all having a fun time. Several of them go on a roller coaster, and one of them, Wendy (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), has a horrifying vision of everyone dying on the ride, after which she freaks out. Some of the people on the ride get off, but those that remain on the ride of course end up dying, just as Wendy had foreseen. Those that died include her boyfriend and her best friend. One of the survivors is her best friend's boyfriend, Kevin (Ryan Merriman). He learns about the events of the first movie, and he and Wendy spend the rest of the movie trying to warn the other survivors that Death is coming for them. Wendy also has photos she took at the amusement park prior to the accident, which contain possible clues for how each person was going to die, though those clues were so open to interpretation as to be essentially useless. And... I don't feel like there's anything more to say about the movie.

Followed by "The Final Destination", which I don't know if I'll ever see or not. (And it's not the final film in the franchise.)