Title – Film Review – Final Destination: Bloodlines (2025)

Directors – Zach Lipovsky & Adam B. Stein (Freaks)

Cast – Kaitlyn Santa Juana, Teo Briones, Richard Harmon, Tony Todd

Plot – College student Stefani Reyes (Juana) discovers a dark family secret that has been haunting her bloodline for generations, setting in motion a game of life and death against death itself as her and her kinfolk look at overcoming their seemingly inevitable fates.

“I love you, but sometimes I really hate you”

Review by Eddie on 22/09/2025

Becoming one of the surprise smash hits of the 2025 calendar year so far, all the while shattering records for its own franchise that has been dormant since the series 5th entry back in 2011, directing duo Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein have reignited the Final Destination brand name with a fun throwaway offering that is sure to appease long-term fans and entertain newcomers alike.

Raking in almost $300 million at its global box office run and receiving overwhelmingly positive reviews from critics, Final Destination: Bloodlines continues on the horror worlds incredibly hot run of recent times with genre entries punching above their weight, with the past 6 months gifting aficionados the likes of Sinners, Bring Her Back, 28 Years Later, Nosferatu and Companion, a loaded list that provides much in the way of spectacle, entertainment and scares.

Generating hype and drawing viewers attention without any star power to help their cause, Lipovsky and Stein have used some ingeniously inventive ways to off their extensive cast to get the audience invested in an otherwise paint by numbers affair and from the moment the films extensive opening stanza begins in a tower in the sky, there’s rarely a let up in the creative carnage that has become the expectation from the series in a delivery sense.

The less one thinks about the actual plotline of Bloodlines the better for while it provides some neatly designed full-circle moments for those that have been following at home since the first entry arrived in 2000, there’s nothing to write home about and the characters within the film itself are not overly interesting or engaging but that matters little when pianos, garbage trucks, ceiling fans or MRI machines are waiting in anticipation.

Mixing in a good amount of practical effects and more CGI infused grandiose moments of bloodshed and carnage, Lipovsky and Stein have an absolute blast bringing their demented and wild moments of death getting its way and if you’re watching Bloodlines with the right mindset and expectations, it’s hard to imagine you wont have fun with this latest addition that reignites the fuse on creative ways for cookie-cutter characters to meet their maker.

This isn’t classy cinema and there’s some fairly pedestrian acting, script work and storytelling at play here but overall Bloodlines gifts us a a quality dosage of what made the Final Destination such a hit when it first arrived on the scene and based off the success of this latest foray into the universe, it’s likely there’s more yet to come.

Final Say –

Utilising some hearty doses of imagination and deathly creativity, Final Destination: Bloodlines is a fun, fast-paced and forgettable new entry into a longstanding Hollywood property that does enough to entertain newcomers and appease long-term fans on its way to regular bouts of bloody chaos.

3 lawn mowers out of 5