Rent Final Destination: Bloodlines (2025)

The Blood Runs Thick - The Scares Run Dry - Final Destination: Bloodlines review by griggs

Final Destination: Bloodlines strays from the path of a typical horror film, playing more like a rogue health and safety video. The format’s familiar—a parade of unfortunate souls trying to dodge elaborate, gruesome deaths while Death lurks off-screen with a clipboard.

The prologue hints at promise, with surprising style and clarity. It sets high expectations with a well-executed suspense sequence and a focused narrative. But that promise quickly evaporates, and it’s as if a completely different director took over, resulting in a jarring shift in tone and quality. From there, it’s a whirlwind of chaos. The direction is haphazard, the framing peculiar, and most of the cast seem to have wandered in from entirely different films. Performances are lacklustre—half look glued to cue cards, while the rest are just guessing the tone.

The script spreads jokes evenly, but that only heightens the awkwardness. A few actors cope; others flounder. The end result? A school play with a body count. Editing is all quick cuts and awkward jolts that wreck the pacing. The sound’s no better—clumsy ADR slaps in dialogue like late homework. And although it’s the longest film in the series, it barrels ahead like it’s late for a flight, stuffing in every set piece and punchline with zero breathing room. Most disappointingly, it just isn’t scary. There are a few chuckles—mostly at how absurd things get—but not much else. It’s not a total disaster, but it’s not all that watchable either: a messy, confused entry with a high body count and low stakes.

In the end, Bloodlines isn’t a total disaster—it’s just aggressively mediocre. It’s not dreadful enough to be fun, not good enough to recommend. Just another Final Destination, coasting on franchise fumes and ticking boxes while forgetting why those boxes were scary in the first place. If this is the future of the series, someone needs to call time… before Death does.

great addition to the franchise - Final Destination: Bloodlines review by RE

a brilliant legacy sequel that adds to the franchise in a good way. great to see tony todd appear. only down side is the cgi was a bit iffy in places

An unstable tower of an entry in the franchise - Final Destination: Bloodlines review by LW

The main reason to watch this is for the final appearance of the legendary Tony Todd. Despite his rapidly declining health Todd appears one last time to explain the rules of death and to give a more hopeful message to the doomed youngsters seeking his aid.

This entry has an awesome opening disaster that the film struggles to live up to. There are some inconsistencies with established lore and some suitably horrifying demises, but nothing new gets added to the franchise to develop the concept.

Tony Todd will be sadly missed though and this is why I recommend a watch to say farewell to a genre icon.