Final Destination: Bloodlines - It All Comes Together

Just when you thought it was over...Death has returned.

I've always had a love/hate relationship with this franchise. I enjoyed the first two, saw both in theaters. The others I saw on DVD or cable after it came out. The third and fourth were my least favorite of them. While the deaths were creative it took some Rube Goldberg style efforts to do it.

The last one, Final Destination 5, was a surprise sequel. The ending being the start of the original. Bloodlines, goes back, way back to the beginning. To the event that started all these deaths in the first place.

We hop in our Delorean/TARDIS to head back to the 1970s. The soundtrack btw, awesome. We meet Iris Campbell and her boyfriend as they head to the grand opening of a fancy sky restaurant. As per the formula, young Iris sees a horrifying vision of death and fire for everyone. All because of a stupid kid. Should have tossed him off the roof (harsh, yes, but he was the wooooooorst). Kid caused everything with a penny he stole from a fountain.

Naturally, Iris tries to warn everyone and saves a lot of lives...lives that were never meant to be saved.

As the decades rolled on, everyone begins to die that was meant to die, including their family members (because they weren't supposed to exist).

Death is finally wrapping up his list, coming for them in the order they were supposed to die. With Iris' family and a surprise guest waiting in the wings. This is where the story begins, with Iris' granddaughter.

Stephani Reyes keeps having nightmares of that fateful night at the Sky View. Its affecting her life at college and the once bright student is in danger of failing. She takes some time away and heads home to hopefully get answers. Instead, its funeral after funeral of her family members dying one by one.

Her quest for answers and a way to survive leads her to a familiar face we've seen throughout the franchise. Mortician William Bludsworth. He gave answers to our protaganists throughout the first two and as we come to find out, Iris saved his life at the Sky View. Once Iris' family is gone, he's next.

Abby, her brother, and two cousins figure the way to save themselves is to break the chain by letting one of them die, but bring them back. It uh...doesn't go well. Perhaps, having multiple piercings and breaking an MRI machine wasn't the best idea.

Stephani, her mom and her brother Charlie head to the cabin their mother devoted her life to making to avoid death. That's when Death tries to knock them all out one by one. After saving his daughter from drowning, all is thought to be safe.

As young Charlie prepares to take pictures with his prom date, the dad tells them that while Charlie saved her...was she really dead at the time?

Train derailment! End of movie!

The movie was a typical Final Destination movie. It knows what it is and what it wants to do. You know what you're getting in these movies, nothing more. The deaths were clever and over the top...and I loved it for that.

While its worth a watch, it's just a typical horror franchise trying to stay interesting. I liked the characters well enough, which is important in me liking a movie. I wanted to see them succeed, maybe a little less of the cousin who was trying to kill his brother with peanuts (allergy). The logic wasn't sound. If his brother dies a shot from the epi pen wouldn't really bring him back to life.

The interconnection of all the past movies fit well, bringing it back to the beginning and why they were all supposed to be dead.

It's a fun summer movie, but not going to be iconic and breathe new life into the series like Scream did with its new cast. With all the people on death's list taken care of, you'd have to reboot the whole franchise or go back in time to show the deaths of others throughout the years in the 80s and 90s.

And I would go see that.

4/5