Bad Blood – ABC Film Challenge – Action – U (Uncle Frank) – Bad Blood – Movie Review
Director: Mark Young
Writer: Mark Young (Screenplay)
Cast
- Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine)
- Sean Bean (Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the Rings)
- Alexa PenaVega (Repo the Genetic Opera)
- James Purefoy (Fisherman’s Friends)
- Lew Temple (Murder at Yellowstone City)
Plot: Hannah and Amber Baker are trapped in a dark Southern underworld of violence, drugs and bikers. Both live in fear of their “Uncle Frank” Stinson, the ruthless leader of a crime organization.
Runtime: 1 Hour 32 Minutes
There may be spoilers in the rest of the review
Story: Bad Blood starts as two young women Hannah (Breslin) and Amber (PenaVega) find themselves trapped in a Southern town. They live under the shadow of their ruthless gangster Uncle Frank (Bean) who runs things in the town. Amber looks to earn an honest living, meeting stranger Bill (Purefoy). Meanwhile, Hannah decides to offer her services to Frank, delivering drugs for him.
Hannah ends up using her new position to create a drug war between Frank and Bill. However, it will come with consequences for her actions, something she wasn’t prepared for.
Verdict on Bad Blood
Bad Blood is an action thriller following a young woman who wants to make her family pay for taking her parents. She gets undercover with the gangster drug lord in her family to start her own war to bring a stop to his reign of terror.
This is an action thriller like many we have seen before. It uses the Southern American location to make everything feel hopeless for the characters involved. The problem comes with how Uncle Frank operates, nothing we see shows him being threatening. He is only feared, which leaves us wondering if this is the right decision. The way Hannah manages to bring the whole thing down feels too easy too and something a real gangster wouldn’t let happen. In the performances, we get solid performances throughout, with a list of big-name actors.
Final Thoughts –Bad Blood is a by-the-book thriller offers very little to the bigger sub-genre of action-thrillers.
