The film begins with a group of high school seniors, including Wendy Christensen (played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and Kevin Fischer (played by Ryan Merriman), boarding a roller coaster called the Devil’s Flight at an amusement park. Before the ride begins, Wendy has a premonition of a catastrophic accident in which the roller coaster derails, resulting in the deaths of everyone on board.
Terrified by her vision, Wendy panics and insists on getting off the ride. A few of her friends, including Kevin, also exit the roller coaster with her, along with a few other passengers who become involved in the premonition.
Moments later, Wendy’s vision comes true, and the roller coaster derails exactly as she saw it. Those who exited the ride survive, but they soon realize that death is coming for them one by one in the order they would have died had they stayed on the roller coaster.
As the survivors grapple with the reality of their situation, they become increasingly paranoid and desperate to cheat death’s design. They discover clues and omens that foreshadow each person’s demise, leading them to try various methods to outsmart fate and avoid their appointed deaths.
In a series of gruesome and creative set pieces, the survivors are killed off one by one in increasingly elaborate and unexpected ways. Despite their best efforts to defy fate, death proves to be relentless and unstoppable, leaving the survivors in a race against time to unravel the mystery and find a way to cheat death once and for all.
In the climax of the film, Wendy and Kevin realize that they can use photographs taken moments before the roller coaster accident to uncover clues about the survivors’ fates and potentially alter the course of events. They devise a plan to save themselves and their remaining friends by manipulating the circumstances surrounding their deaths.
However, their efforts are ultimately in vain, as death proves to be one step ahead of them at every turn. In a final twist, Wendy and Kevin narrowly escape death themselves, but they are left haunted by the knowledge that death will eventually come for them too.
The film ends with Wendy and Kevin contemplating the fragility of life and the inevitability of death, knowing that they can never truly escape fate’s grasp.
Overall, “Final Destination 3” is a suspenseful and chilling horror film that delivers thrills, shocks, and a dose of dark humor. With its inventive death sequences, clever plot twists, and underlying themes of fate and mortality, it’s a worthy addition to the “Final Destination” franchise.