Final Destination: Bloodlines (2025)

Final Destination: Bloodlines (2025)

The messages are still intact: make the most of every second, because we don’t know how much time we have left! You don’t mess with the grim reaper! The crazy thing about these films is the attention to detail. Those moments when you can hear the slightest sound, like the ticking of a clock, drawers opening and closing, coins falling and rolling around, bottles on the table, etc. The music is always scary; it is as eerie as ever, and the scenes are as violent and gory as ever. It certainly gets worse with each film. You can see it as very shocking or very funny, depending on your sensibility, but it’s clearly very dark humor. However, there’s good humor too, at times.

The special effects aren’t always great, but they add to the comedy by making certain scenes grotesque. In fact, it’s so exaggerated and surreal that it ends up not touching you too much. I don’t think these films necessarily make you paranoid, although they can make you think. The actors are always more than adequate. Those who don’t realize it have probably aged. Because the older you get, the more you think that young people play badly. They’re not the actors of the century, but this isn’t a Z series or a French soap opera either!

That said, the further you get from the first, the less you lose in quality. The first one with Ali Larter was magical! It was the most subtle, and the most boring for those who only want to see brutality and bloodshed. We also know now that these films can’t end well. This species of curse will go all the way. That’s probably why we never see any of the actors from the previous installments. Ali Larter was one of the exceptions (perhaps even the only one?) who reappeared in the second film. I think I liked the fourth one the least. The first scenes with the basic dramatic accidents are always spectacular. Here, it’s not always very well done, but you can feel the offbeat side, as if the horror had to be played down.

As much as I enjoyed watching this film, I’d really like it to end. In the same way that they went too far with Saw, I hope Scream will come to an end; I don’t want to see this series go on and on and on. I heard that The Monkey (2025) is similar to this franchise, which means that the film isn’t all that faithful to the work of the great Stephen King. We’ll have to check!

Final Destination: Bloodlines is a big, good horror romp. Most of the characters are great, and I didn’t find them so annoying that I wanted them dead straight away. There are teams of young people so much more unbearable in other films. Those in American Pie 3 (and its sequels) or Lie with Me Again / The Babysitters (2007) should have ended up like this, for example!