Blood Father (2016)
Country: FR
Technical: col/2.35:1 88m
Director: Jean-François Richet
Cast: Mel Gibson, Erin Moriarty, Diego Luna, Michael Parks, William H. Macy
Synopsis:
An ex-con gets more than he wished for when his long-lost errant daughter arrives on his doorstep having accidentally 'offed' a Mexican drug lord.
Review:
Like John 'Duke' Wayne in The Shootist, Gibson here gets to sanctify his popular screen persona: he still gets to dish out the violence, but in defence of his flesh and blood and while desperately trying to go straight and stay off the juice. In other words, we are rooting for him all the way, even though he was a useless daddy in his day. Plus the script is smart and Richet moves things along at such a pace, you almost don't notice the chinks in the plot, e.g. why in hell did he let her keep her phone?
Country: FR
Technical: col/2.35:1 88m
Director: Jean-François Richet
Cast: Mel Gibson, Erin Moriarty, Diego Luna, Michael Parks, William H. Macy
Synopsis:
An ex-con gets more than he wished for when his long-lost errant daughter arrives on his doorstep having accidentally 'offed' a Mexican drug lord.
Review:
Like John 'Duke' Wayne in The Shootist, Gibson here gets to sanctify his popular screen persona: he still gets to dish out the violence, but in defence of his flesh and blood and while desperately trying to go straight and stay off the juice. In other words, we are rooting for him all the way, even though he was a useless daddy in his day. Plus the script is smart and Richet moves things along at such a pace, you almost don't notice the chinks in the plot, e.g. why in hell did he let her keep her phone?
Country: FR
Technical: col/2.35:1 88m
Director: Jean-François Richet
Cast: Mel Gibson, Erin Moriarty, Diego Luna, Michael Parks, William H. Macy
Synopsis:
An ex-con gets more than he wished for when his long-lost errant daughter arrives on his doorstep having accidentally 'offed' a Mexican drug lord.
Review:
Like John 'Duke' Wayne in The Shootist, Gibson here gets to sanctify his popular screen persona: he still gets to dish out the violence, but in defence of his flesh and blood and while desperately trying to go straight and stay off the juice. In other words, we are rooting for him all the way, even though he was a useless daddy in his day. Plus the script is smart and Richet moves things along at such a pace, you almost don't notice the chinks in the plot, e.g. why in hell did he let her keep her phone?