Final Destination: Bloodlines (2025)

The world-building and mythologising reign over plot, logic, and sense in this sixth (has it really only been six?) Final Destination movie, which plays like a cartoon series - it's glossy, wonkily computer-generated in parts, and the deaths are separate mini-episodes - and it is hard to care about the family members being picked off one-by-one by Death given noone in it cares either, and anyway, the characters are always secondary to the attempts here at a origin story and attempt at a reboot, often cornball - the holed-up Death-whispering grandma doesn't belong in the series, and the death-by-peanut allergy is a low point.

★★★☆☆

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Final Destination 5 (2011)

Again, we are introduced to a group of school kids, one of whom has premonitions that help them all escape violent death, only for these survivors to then be stalked one-by-one by Death because "Death doesn't like to be cheated", in this reasonably entertaining fifth instalment of the inventive horror series that sticks to the formula but returns the quality of the acting and the special effects back to standard after some woeful earlier sequels.

★★★☆☆

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