Written by Guy Busick and Lori Evans Taylor
Directed by Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein
Starring Kaitlyn Santa Juana, Teo Briones, Richard Harmon, Owen Patrick Joyner, Anna Lore, Brec Bassinger and Tony Todd
USA, 2025
I haven’t seen a FINAL DESTINATION flick since the first one, and I haven’t seen the first one since it was in movie theaters. It was the last movie I ever saw at the Mac Tri Cinema, my childhood theater, before it closed. I always thought that was kinda poetic, cuz the word “final” is in the title. Get it? The second-to-last movie I saw there was THE IRON GIANT, which is even more poetic, because it is cinematic poetry. The third-to-last movie I ever saw there was… just kidding.
ANYWAY, I finally watched a FINAL DESTINATION sequel because this one has gotten so much good word of mouth it was hard to ignore. Is it possible the sixth sequel in a franchise could suddenly be good? Are there even six? The answer to both questions is YES.
Honestly, having not seen the other ones, and barely remembering the first, it is hard for me to weigh in on what makes this one stand out. I was about to go into the plot, which is basically the same as all of them, and then praise the insanely convoluted death (and near-death) scenes, which are in all of them, and talk about how in this one they try to stop the curse from happening, which is in all of them. So what is it? Maybe they’re all good!
Honestly even if the movie rolled credits after the extended opening sequence that takes place in Space Needle-like structure cin 1969, it’d be great. You could argue the rest of the movie suffers by not living up to that segment, and you’d be kind of right because the climax itself is probably the weakest part (though the ACTUAL end is awesome), but you’d be kind of wrong because there’s also a scene with an MRI machine in the middle there.
The best thing about this movie is that it is actually funny, which is more than you can say for most horror movies.
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