The survivors learn that can transfer the remaining lifespan of the victim to the killer, giving them the dead person’s remaining years. In a twist ending, it’s revealed that the bridge collapse was actually the disaster from the first Final Destination movie (Flight 180 explosion), meaning Sam and the others were unknowingly reliving the past, and they all die in the original Flight 180 disaster timeline. If you want a detailed scene-by-scene breakdown or the death sequences explained, let me know.
Here’s a concise of Final Destination 5 : A man named Sam has a premonition that the North Bay Bridge will collapse during a bus trip with his coworkers. He panics and causes several people to get off the bus with him just before the bridge actually collapses in a horrifying chain of events.
However, Sam and the other survivors soon realize that is not cheated — it begins reclaiming their lives in elaborate, accident-prone “designs,” killing them one by one in the order they would have died on the bridge.