Review of Blood and Bone (2009) by Kevin B — 01 Feb 2010

Blood and Bone got me excited. The opening scenes left me wanting more, and to jump right in, I loved Michael Jai White's part.

The story contains friendship, trust, fear and alot of fighting. It evolved nicely and flowed well, with the added bonus of Michael Jai White carrying it through superbly.

Now ive mentioned him twice already which I dont normally do in my reviews, so for a third time ile say his name. Michael Jai White did a fantastic job here, I loved his cool character, his acting all the way to his fighting skills. He's obviously the lead character who follows the story starting from the bottom to work his way to the top of the street fighting ladder to only fulfil a promise he made to his best friend when he was in prison. For someone ive never head of before I was very impressed by him.

It felt like it was back to basics on the visual department and what a treat it was. It all felt real, fresh and tough, clearly im talking about the fighting scenes here. Im a person who hates when there's a fighting scene and the screen flickers in different locations to make the fight seem more "exciting". Its irritating and obvious that they are hiding the fact that the actors clearly cant fight. Here however, its just a pleasure to see a fight clearly to see what exactly happens, they were acted brilliantly.

Its not just all fighting so dont be put off by my constant mention of fights, but they are a big part of the film so keep away if you don't like that sort of thing.

I loved this film.

Recommended.