I sometimes enjoy a good action or thriller movie but I also noticed that from time to time they always use the same plots, and BLOOD FATHER has one of those. Wanna know which? Read the following text.
John Link (Mel Gibson) is a former biker that spent nine years behind bars but today lives a straight life: he is in a group of Alcoholists Anonymous, always attends their meetings and lives in a trailer in the Arizona desert near some persons like him. In particular Link spends days working as a tattoo artist and having long discussions with his best friend Kirby Curtis (William Macy), and Link is also sad that hasn't seen his young daughter since he left his wife. Surprisingly the next day John is called by his daughter Lydia (Erin Moriarty) that is in trouble and after escaping some drug dealers led by Jonah she flees to his father's trailer. What follows is John doing everything he can to protect Lydia (including going to a preacher that stole his motorcycle after he ended in jail and re-having it), killing Jonah and all his henchmen and dying after having saved her to the extreme.
The plot is not exactly original I admit it but at least the performances were good and the action moments nice. My other complaint is that at times there were some stale moments that could have been trimmed in the post production. As it is, an entertaining action vehicle but nothing more.
John Link (Mel Gibson) is a former biker that spent nine years behind bars but today lives a straight life: he is in a group of Alcoholists Anonymous, always attends their meetings and lives in a trailer in the Arizona desert near some persons like him. In particular Link spends days working as a tattoo artist and having long discussions with his best friend Kirby Curtis (William Macy), and Link is also sad that hasn't seen his young daughter since he left his wife. Surprisingly the next day John is called by his daughter Lydia (Erin Moriarty) that is in trouble and after escaping some drug dealers led by Jonah she flees to his father's trailer. What follows is John doing everything he can to protect Lydia (including going to a preacher that stole his motorcycle after he ended in jail and re-having it), killing Jonah and all his henchmen and dying after having saved her to the extreme.
The plot is not exactly original I admit it but at least the performances were good and the action moments nice. My other complaint is that at times there were some stale moments that could have been trimmed in the post production. As it is, an entertaining action vehicle but nothing more.