The Final Destination films were a staple diet of cinemagoers between the
first one in 2000 until the 5 th one in 2011. Talk of a 6
th
one goes as far back as 2019 when number six was muted. For various reasons
it was stuck in development hell until this year when Final Destination 6
(or to give its proper title Final Destination: Bloodlines) finally hits
cinemas.
The sequels, which have all been a mixed bag in terms of quality and
entertainment value, have pretty much stuck to the same format that made
the first one so successful, a big action sequence at the beginning where
the survivors were meant to die then death comes looking for them leading to
the cast of relatively unknown actors being killed in ever more gruesome and
inventive ways.
Final Destination: Bloodlines doesn’t really move away from the tried and
tested formula, directors Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein have described it as
a reboot rather than a straight sequel, but unlike the previous sequels
adds a pretty good story to the mix.
Bloodlines begins in 1968 where a pregnant Iris Campbell (Brec Bassinger)
and her fiancé Paul (Max Lloyd-Jones) attend the opening ceremony of the
Sky View Restaurant Tower. Once in the restaurant she has a premonition
that the tower is going to collapse killing everyone.
Fifty-six years later Iris’s granddaughter, college student Stefani Reyes
(Kaitlyn Santa Juana), begins to have nightmares where she has visions of
the towers collapse.
Hunting down her grandmother, who is now hiding from death holed up in a
remote cabin, Stefani is warned that death is coming for all the survivors
of the tower collapse plus their descendants who should never have been
born.
As is the way of the Final Destination films her family, who are at first
reluctant to believe her story, start to be killed off in the most bizarre
ways
and usually with the most innocuous items.
Final Destination: Bloodlines is a huge amount of fun and arguably the best
in the franchise since the first film back in 2000. It’s just a shame that
3D is out of favour as it added a lot to numbers 4 and 5 and 6 is just made
for it.
