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‘Final Destination Bloodlines’ Review: A Silly But Satisfyingly Homicidal Series Of Unfortunate Events
Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein resurrect the "Final Destinaltion" franchise with an installment that reveals Death's design runs generations deep.
After awaking from recurrent visions in which her grandmother Iris (Brec Bassinger in the past, Gabrielle Rose in the present) dies during the opening of a 1960s Space Needle-type landmark, Stefani Reyes (Kaitlyn Santa Juana) leaves college to address the relentless insomnia that’s wrecking her stellar academic career. Stefani’s divorced parents discourage her from probing too deeply into their family’s troubled history for answers, but she locates her estranged grandmother and learns of a detailed conspiracy where Death itself has spent several decades picking off not just the people who survived the “Space Needle” disaster but their descendants and loved ones. If a few of the roles could have benefited from starrier casting (somebody like Meryl Streep as reclusive survivalist Iris would have brought the house down), Santa Juana serves as a sturdy, believable anchor for the doomed ensemble, and in particular Richard Harmon’s surprisingly thoughtful turn as Stefani’s over-pierced cousin Erik enhances an overall atmosphere of subverted expectations.
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