Final Destination: Bloodlines received rave reviews from critics after its launch last week. Final Destination: Bloodlines managed to break the previous record in the Final Destination franchise on the Rotten Tomatoes platform .
Based on the latest information from Rotten Tomatoes on Wednesday (5/21), Bloodlines achieved “fresh tomato” status with a score of 92 percent from 158 reviews. This number is very striking, considering the number of critics who gave positive reviews for Final Destination: Bloodlines.
The movie Final Destination: Bloodlines is under the direction of directors Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein, based on a script by Guy Busick and Lori Evans Taylor. The two writers also collaborated on Bloodlines’ story development with Jon Watts.
The actors in Final Destination Bloodlines are mostly newcomers, including Kaitlyn Santa Juana, Teo Briones, Richard Harmon, Owen Patrick Joyner, Rya Kihlstedt, Anna Lore, and Brec Bassinger.
There is also the iconic character William Bludworth played by the late Tony Todd, who brought the character to life one last time before his passing in November 2024.
Bloodlines Records Final Destination’s Highest Score on Rotten Tomatoes
Critics’ scores for Bloodlines set a record high in the history of the Final Destination franchise . The sixth film significantly outperformed Final Destination 5 (2011), which received 63 percent, and Final Destination 2 (2003), which received 52 percent, both of which took the top three spots.
The critics’ positive assessment is also in line with the level of audience satisfaction. On the same platform, Bloodlines scored 89 percent from more than 2,500 user reviews.
Some critics consider Bloodlines to be one of the best releases in the Final Destination series. Katie Walsh of Tribune News Service thinks that the movie is able to revive the franchise after a 14-year hiatus.
“Bloodlines revives the Final Destination saga in a way that makes its predecessors proud,” Walsh said, quoting CNN Indonesia.
Besides Katie Walsh, William Bibbiani of TheWarp and Jocelyn Noveck of Associated Press, also expressed their positive impressions for the movie.
“You can watch Final Destination Bloodlines with your face covered. But chances are, you’ll be smiling with satisfaction too,” Noveck says.
“We watch this to see death, and again, every Final Destination Bloodlines death is incredible. Every time a head explodes, which is often, you want to stand up and cheer,” Bibbiani told TheWrap.
However, there were also critics who gave a negative assessment of Final Destination Bloodlines, including Kyle Logan’s review on Chicago Ryder. He emphasized that the premise of Bloodlines, which focuses on one extended family, is a mistake because it feels more like a family drama.
“Making a Final Destination movie into a family drama for almost two hours was a mistake,” Logan said.
