Review of Blood Father (2016) by Brandon W — 27 Dec 2016

Blood Father is directed by Jean-François Richet, and it stars Mel Gibson, Erin Moriarty, and Diego Luna in an action thriller about a missing daughter that need her father's protection despite the fact that he's going through problems also with his personal life.

When seeing writers like Peter Craig who co-wrote The Town, and Andrea Berloff who co-wrote Straight Outta Compton, I was very curious to see what it turned out to be, and it was a very fun one. Mel Gibson give one of his best performance in years as he's intimidating while also being caring about her daughter and going Mad Max at the same time.

When knowing the premise about the daughter coming back after many years and not become what she would've been, I was really hoping that she's not annoying as it could be easy with this premise, but luckily Erin Moriarty wasn't, and was pleasant to be around Mel Gibson's character as they have great chemistry that you can tell that even though it's been years since they were apart, they are still father and daughter, and that they care about each other.

When it does go to the action scenes, they are pretty intense to watch as you want the characters to survive through this and not get chased around. It has a lot of humor, it's smart, and I actually the writing to be really good as it definitely seem like they're having fun of the dialogue.

Blood Father is a terrific film that I'm glad to see Mel Gibson in top shape again.