From a truck loaded with logs, escalators, racing track, or even a huge bridge, Final Destination movie series have left us something to be cautious about in our everyday lives. Some of us are literally traumatized on driving in front of a truck full of logs or steel rods, thinking that it might crash and will get poke like barbecue which is really possible to happen, and even as simple as mowing the lawn, doing tanning or going to the dentist is deadly too. These are just samples of events that were shown in the previous 5 installments of this movie series, and it has been nothing but traumatizing every time they release a new sequel.

This year, we are lucky to even have the 6th installment of this series and probably the last one (which we wish not). This time is somehow different. The movie started with a dream that doesn’t involved the person who saw it, instead, it was a dream or a premonition by one of their family members which explains the title bloodlines and to stop this, they need to find a way to cheat death, but how the tricky part is, they need to figure out how to save each of their family members. Death is ready to kills a whole dynasty just to prove a point.

Just like the other Final Destination movies, every death were actually calculated by little move that connects to each other but one thing different in this movie is that they have predicted everything based on the past events recorded by their grandmother, Iris, who actually cheated death for so many years until the day her granddaughter visited her. She was able to warn her granddaughter but however had caused her own life. Now, the whole family needs to figure out how to save every one in the family but this time, their list is based from eldest to youngest.

The Verdict

The marketing of this movie was so good that you’ll expect it to as good as the previous movies. Yes, it is, however, due to somehow predictable events, I think it became a little to expected and seemed to be a collections of the events form the last five movies. The way they tried to explain what was happening was a little too brief unlike the previous movies, where in you’re gonna have to use your brain to know who is next in line to die.

Effects, cinematography, I’d give that a 5, but the plot itself was too brief for a story telling. There’s not much that happened. The movie felt very short. It took three seconds to figure out the answer to their questions which I find really boring at some point.

To be honest, I did expect more out of this movie, considering the previous installments were like traumatizing but this one, they reuse most of the way people died and the way they wanted to cheat death. Yes, I understand that they were getting all the answer from a book made by someone who have seen the possible future in every move they make but that doesn’t mean it is exciting to watch every previous movie’s death styles. The trailer was better than the movie itself.

One thing that I loved is how Tony Todd still was included in the movie even for just a scene. We all know that last year, Tony passed and we even thought that this movie will not happen anymore, but seeing him for the last time was really one for the books. For those who don’t know who Tony was, he was the funeral parlor owner who knows how death does its works. In each of the FD movies, he was there and for the last time, he did what he does best…warn the people about death’s trail.

All in all, it’s a refresher but it wasn’t enough to bring back the fear we experienced before. I will give this 85% wonderroanne rating.

I’m looking forward for another movie but I hope it will be a different one.

PS: The Sky Tower scene definitely gave the old FD movie vibes.