Although I don't (for obvious reasons) go into how impossible it is to review the Final Destination movies in my review of the new Final Destination movie, it should be admitted -- they've got to be taken on their own terms, and you're either a mark for or an enemy of their treatment of violence, death and gore as spectacle and entertainment above pretty much all else. I'm honestly surprised more people don't get up in arms about them but then they've never tried to be serious enough to get too worked up about in my opinion -- yes yes I value human life. But also we're all going to die in some ridiculous way probably and these movies allow us to prepare ourselves for that vicariously. I think most critics get that. All of that is to say that I have reviewed the latest entry in the franchise, the sixth one titled Final Destinaion: Bloodlines, which is dropping a mere fourteen (!!!) years after that last one. Time, y'all! Meaningless. Click on over to Mashable to read my thoughts on the film, which are very pleased because the filmmakers knew what the franchise demands and they stuck to it. For the most part. I won't go so far as some of my collegues have to say this is the best one of them all -- I think they do a little more explaining than is necessary, and I think they rely a little too much on surprise shocks more than they do suspense. But that opening disaster is a real humdinger, that's for sure. You'll very much want to see this in the theater, packed with likeminded sadists.
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