Final Destination Bloodlines

This is also the series at its best ... [T]he Bloodlines filmmakers have found a way to reinvent the Final Destination wheel — and then promptly crush someone’s head with it.

Maybe the best explanation I can offer for the success of Final Destination is this: It's funny 'cause it's true. When you die, you probably won't go squish, but you'll go, and so will everybody else.

Bloodlines is well plotted and brilliantly grisly, but most important, it knows how to enjoy itself. I’d say that having fun, more than anything, is what people are seeking from the communal cinematic experience.

There are a few breath-snatching moments here and there, but Bloodlines generally strikes a balance between gruesome and funny as it sprints along.

Bloodlines gives us plenty of what we want from a new Final Destination movie, but it also could have given us quite a bit more.

It’s a rare franchise reboot that works as a standalone, even with a few choice callbacks and links to the previous movies.

Final Destination: Bloodlines puts its foot on the gas from minute one and doesn’t let up until you’ve laughed, cried, cheered, and cringed yourself silly.

The result is a slick, ghoulishly entertaining reboot.

Bloodlines reminds us why we both love and are traumatized by the franchise. The change in formula is refreshing and characters are a lot of fun. Very entertaining entry.

The death scenes are just as satisfying as any entry in the series but it's the storyline here that carries this film and separates it from the other films in the series. This is the film lovers of the franchise have been waiting for.