Synopsis
Thriller charting the moral collapse of a police family. Two cop brothers, smothered by the shadow of their former police chief father, must investigate a crime they themselves have committed. Feature film adaptation of the 2004 series Conviction.
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Cast
- Paul BettanyJoe Fairburn
- Mark StrongRobert Seymour
- Stephen GrahamChrissie Fairburn
- Brian CoxLenny Fairburn
- Zoë TapperJemma Venn
- Ben CromptonJason Buleigh
- Natasha LittleLily Fairburn
- Adrian EdmondsonTom Tiernan
- Patrick Hurd-WoodDominic
- Stuart McQuarrieDavid Saddler
Recommendations
- 75
The A.V. Club
This move is both redundant and counterproductive because it weakens one of the screenplay’s central conceits — the way Bettany’s guilt is shared and experienced by other characters. - 67
The Playlist
A smart, well-acted and well-directed picture that adds up to a little more than the sum of its parts. - 60
The Dissolve
All four of the main performances are so strong that they deserve more space to develop and intertwine. Instead, at times, Blood plays like one long “previously on” montage for the series that inspired it. - 60
Total Film
It’s a crisp, cold little thriller with a real sense of the noose tightening around otherwise unremarkable lives. - 60
New York Daily News
While hardly reinventing the wheel, Blood works best as a tone poem, with unspoken passages detailing a hard life. - 40
The Guardian
Originality may be out of Blood's jurisdiction, but it manages to plod on, dutifully walking a tired old beat. - 40
The Telegraph
The film’s family-saga pretensions and bombastically overdone characterisation keep hobbling its better elements. - 40
Village Voice
Blood wants to be a Greek tragedy about family loyalties, guilt, and the fall of a dynasty, but the characters never manage to connect with one another, separated by gulfs of melodramatic angst and the plot demands of a boringly unspooled police procedural.
