Rating: ★★★☆☆ (3/5)
After a 14-year gap, the Final Destination franchise returns with Bloodline — a film that attempts to blend nostalgia with new blood, quite literally. While it keeps the signature formula of fate, foreboding signs, and gruesome domino deaths intact, it struggles to justify its existence beyond the gore.
The opening scene set in 1968, Iris Campbell and her fiancé Paul attend the opening ceremony of the Skyview, a high-rise restaurant tower, that quickly turns into a nightmare, all triggered by a tiny coin and — perhaps more frustratingly — an irritating child character who feels more like a plot device than a person. The film wastes little time before diving into its fatal accidents, setting the tone for what follows: a series of grisly deaths and increasingly absurd near-misses.
This time around, death isn’t just after a group of strangers but targets an entire bloodline, raising the stakes. However, the narrative never fully explores the potential of this new angle. Instead, it leans on recycled tropes: cryptic warnings, sudden close-ups, and the classic “death is inevitable” speech.
The coin plays an important role, probably more that the characters. Many scenes were a clever twist on the franchise lore.
Bloodline delivers on what longtime fans crave: creative kills, mounting tension, and that underlying paranoia that something bad is always just a few seconds away. Directors Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein keep the pacing tight, and the death sequences remain morbidly inventive.
The tattoo parlour and MRI room sequences stand out as the most visually striking and meticulously crafted scenes in the film.
It won’t win over critics or new viewers, but Final Destination: Bloodline offers enough blood-soaked nostalgia for fans to stomach one more ride with death. Just don’t bring kids — or coins.
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