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Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Powerful

It's complicated... I really like the directing, acting and writing but, there are issues with the way it's shot that I just can't deny. As much as I love the storytelling and the fantastic performance but, there are also certain scenes that didn't need to exist.

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

There will be a large clientele that will like the new Fox five-reel melodrama, "Western Blood." Tom Mix is the hero of it and Victoria Ford gracefully fills the second part in the love story. Besides this, it plays up humorous situations in a way that will be liked by many. It is undoubtedly a little too long, though it works steadily toward an exciting and interesting wild west climax with dashing horses and smoky shooting. One unusual situation is that of the cowboys all in fifteen-dollar evening suits at a party just before the ranch is raided by Mexican bandits at the instigation of Phul, the German agent. The direction by Lynn Reynolds of these out-of-door scenes is much abler than his work in the society scenes in the early part of the picture. It is not an absolutely sure picture for the highbrows or particular audiences, as it is not critic proof. The players "play up to their parts" in the accepted way in many places and the scenes with running horses are really fine. The lesser characters are likable. The photography is good. – The Moving Picture World, May 4, 1918