Final Destination: Bloodlines [Movie Review]

Final Destination: Bloodlines [Movie Review] | I have a mild aerophobia (I think and if there is such a thing) and it heightens after watching the very first Final Destination. 

And every time I see a huge lorry on the highway, I will slow my driving, trying to be as far as from the truck. 

Man, the movie really scarred me for life.

Will this one do the same?

SYNOPSIS

Final Destination: Bloodlines (2025) Trivia

• Starring: Kaitlyn Santa Juana, Teo Briones, Richard Harmon, Owen Patrick Joyner, Anna Lore, Brec Bassinger & Tony Todd
• Director: Zach Lipovsky & Adam Stein
• Producer: Craig Perry, Sheila Hanahan Taylor, Jon Watts, Dianne McGunigle & Toby Emmerich
• Production Company: New Line Cinema, Practical Pictures, Freshman Year & Fireside Films

• Distributed by: Warner Bros. Pictures

• Release date: May 16, 2025

• Running time: 110 minutes
• Rating: MA
• Country: United States
• Language: English
• IMDb: 7.0/ 10
• Tomatometer: NA
• Metascore: NA 
• This is the first Final Destination movie in 14 years.
• The first trailer racked up 178 million views in 24 hours — the second-highest ever for a horror film, just behind It (2017)’s 197 million.
• Tony Todd’s final film before his death—despite being in poor health, he powered through to return to his iconic role. 
• Bloodlines revisits a long-standing idea: that a child born to a survivor might stop Death. It reveals the truth—these children weren’t meant to exist, so Death returns to correct the timeline.

Paul brings Iris to the newly opened Skyview Restaurant Tower, a 400-foot-tall, 360-degree rotating tower where he intends to propose to her. She has a secret of her own - she is pregnant. A boy throws a penny from the top and it gets suck into the air vent - causing one thing to another that finally causes the tower to blow up and collapse. 

Iris and a little boy are the final survivors, before both of them also fall to their deaths.

Stefani has been having the same dream over and over again. Her roommate asks her to seek clarification from her family member as Iris is also the name of her grandmother, whom she has never seen. 

Her father won't help her, so she went to her Uncle Howard, who also dismisses her. Her Aunt Brenda gives her a clue where the letters from Grandma Iris are stored. She follows the lead to the middle of the forest, where a cabin that is heavily fortified cabin stands alone. There, she meets Iris for the first time and she realises why her family keeps Iris alone and never mentions or invites her to any of the family gatherings. 

She is crazy and hysterical that Death is going after the family. Or is she really crazy?

Iris tells her that she managed to save a lot of people at the Skyview Restaurant Tower and the restaurant was closed for good not long after. Ever since, Iris has been following and collecting stories about the deaths of the people from the restaurant. They all died in catastrophic deaths. She believes that her saving the people has somehow messed up Death's plan. And now Death is collecting what is owed. 

To save her own family, she secludes herself so that Death would not come for her and her family. 

Cuckoo much? That's what Stefani thinks too. But Iris is determined to show her the truth by stepping outside of her cabin. Right after Iris tells Stefani that Death is there to claim her and passes her book of evidence to Stefani, she is impaled by the fallen wind vane from the top of her cabin - right in front of Stefani.

Her long-lost mother, Darlene comes to pay her last respect to Iris. During the family gathering, Death claims Howard in front of the family, just before Stefani manages to tell them about the signs that she has been seeing.

After that, she tells them about the theory to the family - that Erik and his siblings are next. Then it will be Darlene, Stefani and Charlie, her younger brother. But nobody believes her. 

In her desperate attempt to break the cycle, Stefani tracks down a mysterious undertaker named William Bludworth, who offers cryptic insights about Death’s order and the impossibility of cheating it entirely. His ominous warnings set the stage for Stefani’s final plan: to sacrifice herself in a calculated accident, hoping it will disrupt the sequence and save those still alive.

Can they cheat Death, again?

MY REVIEW

What I Like:  

• Oh yeah! The glory of Final Destination is back! 
• I keep on cursing whenever the horrific deaths happen and they are definitely on another level.
• Same scare tactic but different death method.   

What I Don't Like:

• I was imagining Jenna Ortega playing Stefani - that will be great. Not that this cast is not great.

Will I Watch It Again: Yes, I don't mind watching it again.

Overall: 4.9/ 5.0

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