‘Final Destination: Bloodlines’
The latest entry in the long-running “Final Destination” franchise was a hit when it came out in the spring, and no wonder. Directed with propulsion by Adam Stein and Zach Lipovsky, it’s a gruesome fun house romp that reminds us how savage, unpredictable and nonsensical death can be.
The action kicks off in the 1960s with a bravura disaster film-like scene set at a glamorous restaurant atop a glass tower (much like the locale in the recent thriller “Drop.”) Iris (Brec Bassinger), a young woman there on a date, listens to her premonition that a crack in the glass floor will end in the restaurant becoming a towering death trap, and her quick thinking saves lives. But this is the “Final Destination” universe, and that means nobody’s safe from death’s claws.
After the story fast forwards to the present, a series of tiny unnoticed mishaps involving Iris’s family — a glass shard in a cup of ice, a coin stuck in a cog — lead to the franchise’s bread and butter: cartoonishly fatal catastrophes that are as stomach-churning as they are hilarious. Death by M.R.I. machine gets an A+, as does the merciless finale involving an out-of-control train. If this darkly ridiculous film whets your thirst for preposterous fatalities, all six “Final Destination” films are available to stream on HBO Max.
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