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Final Destination: Bloodlines
Final Destination: Bloodlines…
in wide release in theaters
It was a mistake to make a Final Destination movie into an almost two-hour-long family drama. The series has never followed characters from film to film like the Saw or Scream franchises, so when Final Destination: Bloodlines asks the audience to invest in an extended family, it’s a tough sell.
It doesn’t help that the actors are saddled with trying to imbue real feeling in some of the worst dialogue to ever escape a Hallmark movie. We’re reminded about seven times in as many minutes that Iris (Gabrielle Rose) is the shared grandmother of our group of young leads. Grandma is referred to as “a very disturbed woman”; our protagonist shouts, “I’m not like her!” at her younger brother when accused of being like their mom who left; and Mom (who, of course, returns) gets hit with a classic, “You could have been there.”
All that cliché is born from one of the franchise’s patented opening set piece visions of mass death: a disaster at a fictional Space Needle stand-in. Iris foresaw this in the 60s and saved hundreds before spending her life paranoid as death made its way through the survivors and their offspring.
Read Full Review at the Chicago Reader.