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Blood Father
Directed by
Jean-François Richet
R
2016
88m
Action
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6.4
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An ex-con reunites with his estranged wayward 17-year old daughter to protect her from drug dealers who are trying to kill her.
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Cast of Blood Father
Mel Gibson
John Link
Erin Moriarty
Lydia
William H. Macy
Kirby Curtis
Michael Parks
Preacher
Thomas Mann
Jason
Diego Luna
Jonah
Dale Dickey
Cherise
Miguel Sandoval
Arturo Rios
Lori Dillen
Sheila
Richard Cabral
Joker
Raoul Max Trujillo
The Cleaner
Tait Fletcher
Bartender
Luce Rains
Dennis Trucker
Ryan Dorsey
Shamrock
Katalina Parrish
Link's Client
Daniel Moncada
Choop
Lucien Dale
Blonde Boy
Genia Michaela
Woman Topango
Brandi Cochran
Lydia's Mother
Christopher W. Garcia
Sunburned Boy
Joanne Camp
Walmart Cashier
Christopher Atwood
Correction Officer
Vic Browder
Count
Nicole Brady
News Anchor #1
Tom Joles
News Anchor #2
Cheo Tapia
Movie Theater Patron (uncredited)
Alexander Wagenman
Movie Theater Patron (uncredited)
Madison Fogle
Movie Theater Patron (uncredited)
William Fogle
Movie Theater Patron (uncredited)
Alex Gopal
Movie Goer (uncredited)
Julian Gopal
Movie Goer (uncredited)
Brittney Scavo
Party-Goer (uncredited)
Rich Chavez
Maximum Security Prisoner (uncredited)
Fred Padilla
Inmate (uncredited)
Robert Louder
Biker (uncredited)
Lyle DeRose
Biker (uncredited)
Jean-François Richet
Director
Peter Craig
Writer
Andrea Berloff
Writer
Pascal Caucheteux
Producer
Chris Briggs
Producer
Jennifer Roth
Producer
Sébastien K. Lemercier
Producer
Blood Father Ratings & Reviews
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February 12, 2025
Mel Gibson did an amazing job. Supporting roles were average. Production lacked. Strong beginning but VERY poor ending. When I first started watching it I was so impressed I thought it was going to end up being a must watch movie I’d never forget. Unfortunately the ending turned it into a movie I wouldn’t recommend and one that bothered me. 6.5 out of 10.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Pretty much gives you all that you could want from a pulp fiction in which Mel Gibson plays a grizzled loner inking skin in a spot called the Missing Link Tattoo.
Las Vegas Weekly
Josh Bell
Entertaining as hell, with a great performance from Gibson as an ex-con seeking redemption who can't deny his baser impulses.
National Review
Armond White
Although Gibson's films always showed ambivalence about our culture's relation to violence, in Blood Father, he offers a necessary reproof to Tarantino culture.
New York Daily News
Allen Salkin
The movie is pretty good.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
The film works, that's it, and for genre fans this is one ferocious underground throwback worth putting forth the effort to see.
Reeling Reviews
Laura Clifford
This feisty little B movie...isn't anything new, but Mel Gibson, carrying his cross of onscreen suffering, gives a powerful performance, all aging machismo leavened with witty comebacks.
Punch Drunk Critics
Travis Hopson
To put it bluntly, Blood Father kicks Taken's ass any day.
ChrisStuckmann.com
Chris Stuckmann
Mel Gibson's grizzled, scruffy ex-con is a revelation, a consistently compelling character caught in a hole he thought he'd already dug himself out of.
Cinemalogue
Todd Jorgenson
It's pretty familiar territory, enlivened somewhat by Gibson's growly charisma and some gritty throwback visuals.
IGN Movies
Josh Lasser
In the end, the negative aspects are too great and leave one wondering how things might have turned out if only for a few changes here and there.
Mark Reviews Movies
Mark Dujsik
As an actor, Mel Gibson is an expert at digging and filling up a well of rage that, at any moment, seems ready to overflow and drown anyone in the vicinity.
Collider
Kristen Yoonsoo Kim
Things come to a halt before the going gets really good.
RogerEbert.com
Glenn Kenny
An efficient and pleasurable bad-man-tries-to-go-good exposition that gives Mel Gibson ample opportunity to flex his now-somewhat-grizzled movie-star muscle.
Los Angeles Times
Noel Murray
The movie's a small gem: a good old-fashioned chase picture, thickened with pulp.
Entertainment Weekly
Chris Nashawaty
A violent, grungy, Peckinpah-lite action thriller that's worth checking out just to be reminded how powerful an actor Mel Gibson continues to be-even if the parts aren't coming like they once were.
AV Club
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
Gibson is still a terrifically charismatic presence who inhabits damaged, self-destructive rascals, perhaps because that's how he wants to be seen.
Slant Magazine
Chuck Bowen
Jean-François Richet's film shrewdly capitalizes on Mel Gibson's off-screen embarrassments and controversies.
TheWrap
Alonso Duralde
Director Jean-François Richet keeps the action set pieces and shootouts coming with bracing regularity, but Blood Father doesn't grind to a halt while it's catching a breath, thanks to the spot-on screenplay.
The Hollywood Reporter
Boyd van Hoeij
A serviceable piece of B-movie entertainment without an ounce of originality. But audiences that respond to films like these are unlikely to think that's a dealbreaker.
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