Blood 2012

Critics score:
49 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: Suffers from a crippling lack of back story and characters whose relationships are fraught with unexplained complexity. Read more

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: "Blood" unfolds along familiar lines, but it works. Read more

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, AV Club: A tight, raincoats-flapping-in-the-wind crime drama ... Read more

Tom Long, Detroit News: "Blood" may not be wholly original, but it is effective. Read more

Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: "Blood" feels perfunctory, needing something besides fussy plotting to jolt it to life. Read more

Jordan Hoffman, New York Daily News: While hardly reinventing the wheel, "Blood" works best as a tone poem, with unspoken passages detailing a hard life. Read more

V.A. Musetto, New York Post: The landscape cinematography is often eye-pleasing, but the script is labored, filled with cliches and never allows for character development. Read more

David Fear, Time Out: That he [Nick Murphy] can't sustain the level of dramatic tension that Bill Gallagher's script requires (the movie is adapted from the BBC veteran's TV series Conviction) is a bummer, though you still get to bask in wonderful performances. Read more

Chris Packham, Village Voice: 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. Read more