Film Review – Blood

It’s strange that the producers of “Blood” have decided to use a
six-part miniseries as the inspiration for this endeavor. Remakes are
difficult enough to pull off gracefully, but reducing multiple episodes
of narrative breadth and character arcs to a single 90 minute feature
feels like dramatic suicide, forced to compact nuanced relationships and
burn through conflict in a full sprint. Thankfully, there are powerful
performances to cling to, watching the actors conjure full-blooded
depictions of guilt to patch holes left behind in the script. There’s
powerful work here to savor while the story searches for ways to define
its direction, keeping “Blood” convincing when it should rightfully fall
apart.
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