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Old October 27th, 2016 #1
steven clark
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Default movie review Blood Father

The new Mel Gibson film is a tight 88 minute western noir. Gibson plays John Link, an ex-con tattoo artist living in the desert, recovering from drugs and booze, trying to find his missing daughter. Little does he know she's trying to find him because she's on the run after killing her drug selling boyfriend, who massacred a family whose house he used to stash dope.
Lydia (Erin Moriarity), comes to Link, and no sooner do they meet then druggies are at Link's trailer, shooting, swearing, then finally ramming it and turning it over. Link and Erin are on the run, and Blood Father becomes an exciting chase movie where Link takes on a world of enemies, from Mexican druggies to Preacher, a former ally, Vietnam vet, collector and seller of Nazi/military memorabilia, who looks at Erin and sees evil in her, and in a poignant scene by a campfire, tells how she'll be followed by evil to her dying day.
The film has a lot of splash, stunts, and Mel Gibson bravado, but also intelligent, witty dialogue. It's smart, and Link is a character we can identify with, as he takes Erin with him fleeing the law and lawless, and the film o implies California is barely policed.
The actor who plays the mercantile Neonazi Preacher looks like David Duke, and although one of the villains, is allowed a sense of dignity as he tells Erin she and her generation are too comfortable to see the world coming to an end, and corporate America takes rebels and merchandizes them.
The story was a lot of fun and the characters well-rounded. It reminds me of Hell or High Water, a film I reviewed on this site, and these two can be called films of the Trump age. Gibson has never looked better, and is a sturdy, hard-eyed foe to the collapsing world around him.
The film is also nigger-free, with lots of nasty Mexicans who get offed.
It is fast-paced and, for a movie with an American theme, was directed by a Frenchman who doesn't speak English. Watch this and support Mel. He's unbeatable.
 
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