A Masterpiece!

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

The acting in this movie is really good.

You want nasty, brutish, foulmouthed, low-life mindlessness? Then Blood Father could just give it to you. But, you may also need to be somewhat of a mindless thug yourself to get past the 'I've seen it all before' excesses of this endlessly clichéd chase movie. This tosh plays like its only audience will be uneducated teens or bikie gangs. Gibson plays the Gibson of so many other boringly silly-kick-ass flicks that it's no wonder he looks so frazzled (although years of booze hasn't helped). Written by Peter Craig in the style of 'I need the easy money' genre and directed with the same feel by Jean-Francoise Richet. This foolishly tired trash fest, lambasts its way to an entirely predictable finish - and even though it only runs 88 mins feels like it should have been 15mins shorter! Erin Moriarty plays Gibson's space-cadet teenage daughter like she's auditioning for a game panel show. Hers is one super-dill of a character that at best can only annoy the viewer to the point of wishing the evil gangs would put her out of her misery (or ours). One particular scene of Mel at a phone booth looks as if it were shot on a mobile phone by an untrained kid who had just bought their first phone! Michael Parks is again wasted in one of his final roles - along with William H. Macy, who's reduced to little more than an extra. Only for easily pleased lovers of grotesque movies - anyone else, save your time for something of worth.Oh, and don't be fooled by the Rotten Tomatoes ratings - seems to have been a bunch of film-school kids on duty for this one...or maybe a bunch of bad fruit peddlers.

An interesting but improbable adventure of a father finding his daughter after many years of absence, and helping her find a path to clean living.

Well done, enjoyed like not many lately , must say it remind me old good movies well made classics , you not seeing movies like that anymore , suits me so much so I had to place my review.

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.