A fatal distraction

The third episode of the teens-in-danger franchise stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead as a high-school senior out with her friends at an amusement park.

She has a vivid premonition in which the roller coaster becomes a death trap and refuses to ride on it at the last moment. The friends who ignore her are duly killed and, one by one, those who didn't take the ride get their comeuppance in various imaginative ways.

There seems no adequate reason why this should happen. But that's not the point of James Wong's movie, which is to keep you guessing at what awful end awaits each of the survivors.

The clues are contained in photos taken at the park on the fateful night. Some of the deaths are clearly supposed to make you laugh as well as shudder, and they do. So, in that way, the film does exactly what it set out to. No more, nor less.

Final Destination 3
Cert: 15