“It makes sense that a gore-soaked horror franchise built around the universal fear that our time is running out would be as elegant and precise as a stopwatch. You can practically hear the ticking sound in “Final Destination Bloodlines,” the first new entry in the series in ten years.
“It’s a tour-de-force of voluptuously bloody slapstick that knows that we know how these movies work.
“It leans into that familiarity by staging a series of fiendishly elaborate deathtraps and giving us lots of time to admire their construction, note all of the rude, heartless, or complacent people who are fated to die super-nasty deaths, and keep a running list of all of the outwardly ordinary objects that are about to become links in a chain of destruction.”
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