John Luessenhop
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Final Destination Bloodlines (2025)
Directed by Adam Stein
influenced by Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013)
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Indies like V/H/S/Beyond (7th entry) to backtracks like The First Omen (6th entry, remake included) are healing the stigma of a Jason Goes to Hell or Texas Chainsaw 3D.
…as for Erik (Richard Harmon), Julia (Anna Lore), and Bobby (Owen Patrick Joyner) — the coolest cousins to grace a major horror sequel since Alexandra Daddario hit “Texas Chainsaw 3D”…
But if you haven't seen Heat—or Thief or Manhunter, or even the TV-movie L.A. Takedown, most of which we'd wager Luessenhop has—then Takers can be reasonably satisfying.
Anyway, it's a creed endorsed by the "Takers" creative team, who saw "Heat" and "The Italian Job" and took them - the stories, the shots, the music.
As in the 1969 and 2003 The Italian Job? Freeze, fella, we caught you red-handed.
Or caper, anyway, though there's nothing so whimsical here as in, say, Ocean's Eleven or The Italian Job , the latter of which gets a shout-out in dialogue.
It even tips its hat (or trilby, the headwear of choice for Christensen's character) to The Italian Job.
Everyone walks on eggs around the guy, including Gordon's right hand man John (Paul Walker, "The Fast and the Furious") who's surprised to find Ghost sipping Scotch in his living room one afternoon.
Paul Walker plays Gordon’s second in command; nine years after “The Fast and the Furious’’ made him a star, he remains an actor in search of a personality.