Final Destination: Bloodlines

Final Destination: Bloodlines is a great time. It does the smart thing and goes for a more comedic approach than earlier entries in the series.

Bloodlines contains possibly the best opening of the franchise and the first 20 minutes are a treat. The effects, while not amazing, do the job and are particularly gory even for this series.

The movie works well bringing a new twist on the Final Destination formula and the family are all likable enough in their own ways.

It would be remiss of me not to mention a standout in Richard Harmon. I spend a good portion of his time on screen trying to calculate if Tom Green could have fathered him as he is his dead ringer in this (amazingly both canadian as well). It was obvious they were going for a Tom Green type of character.

Tony Todd shows up for the last time as the mortician and it's a great emotional and poetic send off for him as well as giving his character an interesting backstory.

The movie has some nice little easter eggs for fans of the series with some call backs to previous entries as well as harking back to some of the premonitions.

The Final Destination franchise has always been interesting to me but never quite delivered a quality movie. This is perhaps the closest it has came to that by just being a good time and not getting bogged down in the lore.

Loved the movie.. and from what I noticed in the movie theatre and from my friends. Everyone enjoyed it! I personally enjoyed the overall story.. The opening scene in the tower is amazing really. Showed the story back in the old days and after many years in our time how death (a person) follows everyone.

I liked it.. Especially how the story carries on.. as a family curse plot. Some people find Final Destination movies repetitive.. true. I guess hardcore fans might expect/anticipate every single shot because it follows the same path as the old movies. But this one is very enjoyable.

Really keeps you at the edge of your seat. Most accidents were amusing to be honest. Especially the one in the MRI machine. Very creative.

The return of the series after 14 years should not have been like this. It honestly felt like I was watching a gory Disney Channel Original Movie. The tone was way too childish. If it weren't for the gore, I'm sure it would have been rated PG-13 because the dialogue wasn't mature at all. I would have preferred a darker and more serious tone like in the first two movies.

One of the things that bothered me the most was the way they handled Bludworth. In the previous films, he was a mysterious character who seemed to have a supernatural connection to death. In Bloodlines, he's reduced to just an ordinary guy. I'm pretty sure this wasn't the original vision for the character. It felt like they rushed to close his arc because the actor is reportedly sick and may not return in future installments. The Bludworth we see in this film doesn't align with the enigmatic presence we knew. The man who used to deliver eerie, metaphorical warnings now feels completely humanized and bland.

The Final Destination series has never been fully consistent in its lore, but it's 2025. If you're bringing a franchise like this back, you need to be more coherent and deliberate. The final train crash should have been Stefani's premonition. All the other films start with something like a finger cut cut. Or maybe Charlie should have had the vision at the prom. The CGI in the final scene was awful. It looked like something out of Spy Kids.

On the bright side, I did appreciate the emotional approach of focusing on a family rather than a group of classmates or coworkers for once. It helped the audience connect more deeply with the characters. I really liked Iris and thought Brec Bassinger did a great job. The Skyview Tower collapse, while not visually perfect, ranks among my top three openings in the franchise.

The hospital sequence was by far the best part of the movie. The MRI death easily enters my top five deaths across all the films. I also liked how complex the death order was this time. The butterfly effect was depicted pretty well.

Overall, the movie was watchable but fell short of my expectations. A more serious and darker tone would have been a better fit. Honestly, if the whole film had taken place in the 1960s and followed Iris and the diner characters, it might have turned out better. But the most important thing is this franchise needs to be taken out of Zach and Adam's hands. They are turning it into a kids movie with gore.

It's crazy to me to think that the last time a 'Final Destination' movie came out I was a young 20 year old man full of hopes and dreams. And the title of the fourth film in the series, 'The Final Destination', implied it would be the final instalment of the series back in 2009, however anyone familiar with modern Hollywood probably knew that was unlikely to remain the case - and it lasted 2 years.

When you make an instalment 14 years after the last, there's probably a sense that you have to do something a little different in order to justify it. And this film does mix the formula up - slightly. Just enough that it feels a little different, but not enough that it really alters the formula we have come to know and love.

The opening scene in this movie was really good. It was lengthy, fairly creative and had some great individual kills in the mix. From there thing go into a lull for a while, allowing the story to set itself up. Then the film goes bananas the rest of the way and we are treated to brilliant kill scene after brilliant kill scene. There are some really good ones in this film.

One thing that was a problem here - and something that has plagued the series in almost every film - is that it is riddled with unlikable characters. I can only think that's being done intentionally at this point to make people feel disposable and like no one is safe, but I can't help but feel the films would be slightly more impactful if the characters were a bit more likable overall.

All in all though I would say 'Final Destination: Bloodlines' was a lot better than it had any right to be 25 years after the original. 8/10.

Final Destination: Bloodlines isn't going to pull a rabbit out of its undead hat, reinvent the horror wheel, or stake its claim as a genre-defining masterstroke-but that's not the point.

What it does do is breathe new life into a franchise that felt like it had run out of steam. Bloodlines is a solid sixth installment, packing the same patented "inevitable death" mechanics we know and (occasionally) love, but with enough fresh twists to keep die-hard fans from checking out.

If you never warmed to the idea of "death's design" calling the shots, this won't convert you. For everyone else, the film delivers brilliantly choreographed set pieces of grisly demise-think elaborate Rube Goldberg traps drenched in splatter FX-that hit the sweet spot between macabre creativity and good old-fashioned gore.

The biggest upgrade this time around is emotional buy-in: the victims aren't a bunch of arbitrary strangers thrown together by fate. Instead, Bloodlines builds sincere rapport with its core ensemble, giving each death a bit more narrative weight (and, yes, a smidge of pathos) before the inevitable payoff.

Unfortunately, the dialogue remains as thin as ever-flat exposition one moment, telenovela melodrama the next-reminding you that subtlety wasn't high on the call sheet.

On the plus side, the movie leavens the carnage with genuinely funny, ironically staged moments-many courtesy of Erik, whose over-the-top flair steals scenes from our so-called protagonist-and the delightfully absurd chain reactions (who knew the garbage truck could be such a menace?).

Even though the film trudges into its predictable finale with all the subtlety of a wrecking ball, Bloodlines is pure adrenaline: brutal, energetic, and darkly comedic. In other words, exactly what you paid for when you bought that Final Destination ticket.