How do you immediately recognize whether someone has seen the “final destination” films or not? On whether he is currently changing the track as soon as a truck loaded with tree trunks drives in front of him!
A sudden premonition prevents a massive catastrophe with numerous deaths, including an aircraft crash, a motorway mass carambolage, a roller coaster slope, a Nascar hole crash or a bridge fall. But if you jump from the shovel in this way, you have to expect that the latter will not just be sitting on it-and instead, the most bizarre-bumping accidents in the history of cinema. The basic concept of the “Final Destination” series is as simple as it is ingenious-and so it is no wonder that between 2000 and 2011 five parts were created in relatively close clocks. When the new mechanics were added in “Final Destination 5” that one could easily get there as an unplanned survivor of extra years of life, it was somehow clear that the air was first out.
But after a 14 -year break I really wanted to go on more “Final Destination” – and with this feeling I was apparently anything but alone when you consider that the first trailer was too “Final Destination 6: Bloodlines“More than 178 million times were called up in the first 24 hours alone (which after“ Es ”second best value for a horror film ever). Even with the makers, a lot seems to have thawed in the long waiting time – and in two ways: On the one hand, the crazy death scenes are even more spectacular, more splatted and painful – and so simply make a good mood! On the other hand, one (too much) is also put on it when it comes to mythology, which is why the sixth part now comes into the cinemas as far as long as the longest part of the series.
“Final Destination: Bloodlines” starts particularly spectacular!
The grades of college student Julia Campbell (Anna Lore) have become worse since she dreamed every night of how her grandmother Iris (BREC Bassinger) dies in 1969 in a skytower collapse together with dozens of other guests in a brutal way. This disaster never took place in reality. Nevertheless, Julia is investigating, which, however, is not well received by the rest of her family. After all, love Omi is considered a decorated crazy who made life to hell with her constant fear of revenge of death and has now entrenched itself in a real Trutzburg.
After all, Iris (now: Gabrielle Rose) is firmly convinced that death has not only been working on clearing all the survivors from the time for decades – but also all their families, which would never have existed without their premonition at the time. In the meantime, only Iris and their descendants are left – only nobody believes that. At least not until the fatal accidents are piling up – exactly in the order of how Iris and the first convinced Julia predicted …
Something like that only happens to Road Runner
As far as the mandatory opening disaster is concerned, the accident in “Final Destination 2” will never get any more (by the way, the “Bloodlines” makers themselves also know, which is why they allude to this with a wonderful-nasty final point). Nevertheless, the retro discer puts a lot of mood for the fictional Skyview Tower. Not only is the airy inferno staged convincingly spectacularly, it also becomes clear that “Bloodlines” does not shy away from any nasty (Gore) gag: If the falling restaurant guests burst in a water basin in the background, a unduly Valet hears in the foreground of the 1969-Hitsong Raindrops Keep Fallin 'On My Head -And the also falling concert wing is certainly not crushing the wrong one, because “Bloodlines” almost reminds of the real film version of a Road-Runner cartoon.
The “Freaks” directors Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein also got the “Bloodlines” job because they prepared their zoom discussion with a in advance Freak accident à la “Final Destination”. The two are just real fans themselves – and you can tell the result: whether a garden party, tattoo studio or a passing garbage disposal, “Bloodlines” constantly surpasses themselves when it comes to sophisticated accident surges and exuberant gore. However, it is almost even clever how the duo constantly plays with the expectations of the audience (and also deliberately disappointed, only to deliver twice and triple to deliver at some point): If you are still disappointed in the tattoo salon as to the use of the apparently unlimited possibilities of Julia's cousin Erik (Richard Harmon), just returns 45 minutes later Back to this Gore Goldgrube-and then really exceeds all expectations!
It becomes complicated: this time death has to process a particularly long list to get everything back on …
Instead of choosing several generations of a family as a potential victim this time, the continued return of the franchise fan favorite William Bludworth is also a joy, especially since the horror icon Tony Todd (“Candyman”) can be seen here before his actual death in 2024. But you shouldn't forget why (most) watch a “final destination” film-and there is probably no first-time mythology. Especially since the figure of the, hermit, enthused in her hut, the only one is very reminiscent of the figure of Jamie Lee Curtis in the new “Halloween” trilogy.
The protagonists are actually not as much the most valuable as in the first four sequels. With the date in the Skyview Tower, “Bloodines” even starts astonishingly romantic, really with heart before the bloody chatter starts …
Conclusion: “Bloodlines” delivers exactly there what is important for a “final destination” film! A great, grotesque fun full of driven-out-clever, hematical, nasty death scenes. Slight deductions in the B grade are at most for the (to) shouting mythology.