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the audience applauded

Thanks for the memories!

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

The right mix of action, humor, and what's most important in life - unconditional love.

Recovering alcoholic and ex-con Link (Mel Gibson) is trying to get his life straight by avoiding getting in to trouble. Link's life is turned upside down when his estranged daughter Lydia (Erin Moriarty) calls him and asks him for help when she find herself on the run from the cartel. Link reluctantly has to return to his old life in order to protect his daughter...Blood Father is another actioner whereby we have a middle-aged bad-ass father who is forced to go to back in to his former life/existence in order to protect a loved one. This is something that Liam Neeson has pretty much perfected over the years (most notably in Taken) - although this film shares more in common in a more recent Neeson film called Run All Night where Neeson played a recovering alcoholic forced to go back to his old life and protect his child.It's not a bad premise and when handled correctly it can make for a good film, but Gibson's character here is a little too whiny and full of self-pity (necessary to an extent I suppose, but it was overdone here and at times I found his character to be a little tiresome). On the other hand, his young co-star Erin Moriarty was a joy to watch; she's sassy, ballsy, but with the slightest hint of vulnerability. This in itself is a rather clichéd role, but Moriarty sells it well and she bounces off Gibson really well; her carefree persona and his grumpy old man shtick do at times serve the film well giving it some much needed light-heartedness. Where this film does suffer slightly is in the pacing and action stakes; the story is a tad laborious and the action sequences come far too infrequently - it also occasionally does seem to rely on the most unlikely of contrivances to move the story along.Taken for what it is, this is a serviceable and watchable action film with good performances from Gibson and Moriarty - they bounce off each other well and convey a very genuine father/daughter bond on screen. But the truth is that the film suffers when Moriarty and Gibson are not on screen together due to the film's rather laborious pace and lack of action. Worth a look, but don't set your sights too high with this one.

John Link (Mel Gibson) of Missing Link Tattoos and two years sober, ex-con is contacted by his missing daughter (Erin Moriarty- a thin Selena) "every losers lucky day" who is in trouble. After spending seven years in jail, Link is eager to help out. A cartel is after her in a real bad way after she shot her boyfriend (Diego Luna). She is a walking parole violation. Link must cash in all his favors and pull out all the stops if he wants to save his estranged daughter.It was a decent film for what it was. There was supposed to be a touching scene between him and his daughter that fell short. I felt the ending was abrupt and not well developed.Guide: F-word. No sex. Poster background nudity.

Most people will expect "Blood Father" to be a modest, run-of-the-mill, action thriller with an uninspiring story but it's actually much better than that. Whilst its plot wouldn't win any prizes for originality, its fast pace, brilliant dialogue and well-choreographed action sequences make it compelling to watch and a storming performance by Mel Gibson (who does anger and frustration so well), adds plenty of intensity and edginess. The well-drawn characters at the centre of the story are a father and daughter who have to go on the run together and their unorthodox relationship and entertaining banter provide a great deal of interest and enjoyment as they both gradually discover that they're actually much closer to their own redemptions than either of them realise.Lydia Link (Erin Moriarty), a teenager who ran away from home a few years earlier, is living with her 30-year-old boyfriend, Jonah (Diego Luna). He's a drug dealer with family connections to a Mexican drug cartel and as part of his operation, uses a number of "stash houses" in which he stores some of his merchandise. When it appears that the drugs in one of the houses have gone missing, Jonah and his gang, accompanied by Lydia, go there and terrorise the tenants. When this doesn't produce any useful information, Jonah kills the man of the house and having given Lydia a gun, orders her to shoot the woman. After a few moments of hesitation and panic, Lydia accidentally shoots Jonah in the neck and thinking that she's killed him, immediately goes on the run. Terrified and with no-one else to turn to, she phones her estranged father, John (Mel Gibson), and asks him for money and whatever help he can give her.John Link is an ex-con and recovering alcoholic who lives in a trailer park and earns money as a tattoo artist. His only remaining friend is Kirby Curtis (William H Macy) who is his AA sponsor and lives in one of the neighbouring trailers. After his long career as a criminal, John is desperately trying to go straight and live a peaceful life but when his long-lost daughter contacts him for help, he can't refuse.After meeting up with Lydia, John takes her back to his trailer where he thinks she can lay low for a while but this soon proves to be impossible when some members of Jonah's gang turn up and demand that she be handed over to them. When John refuses, they ram and topple over his trailer with their SUV and it's only when some of his armed neighbours appear on the scene that the gang eventually decides to retreat. Realising that there's no way that they can safely remain at his home; John decides to go on the run with Lydia to escape the danger that she's in from Jonah's gang. It soon becomes clear however, that her predicament is worse than they realised as she's also being pursued by a Mexican drug cartel hit-man and the police who are following up their investigations into what happened at the stash house. A number of very tense and dangerous situations then follow as John and Lydia repeatedly come close to being killed before events lead them to the story's final, violent confrontation.One of the surprises of this movie is how well the relationship between John and Lydia is depicted as, after years apart, they rapidly build up a rapport which often involves sarcasm on John's part whenever he realises that his daughter has made so many of the same mistakes that he's made in his life. Despite the hard-boiled nature of some of their exchanges, the underlying affection that they feel for each other is constantly apparent and the subtlety with which this is conveyed is one of the most impressive features of Gibson and Moriarty's performances."Blood Father" is full of humour and witty one-liners (e.g. "she's every loser's lucky day" and "Kid, you've got the mindset of a battered housewife") and is also well-directed with great use being made of its locations and a neat symmetry being achieved by the similarity of Gibson's first appearance on-screen and Moriarty's last. This is definitely a movie that impresses with its well-disciplined and no-nonsense approach and will certainly exceed the expectations of most people who see it.