A film about pro/anti hunting is always going to get tongues wagging. However BLOODED adds a nice, if not a touch cliched, spin on things. Based on actual events (in a fictional world) Four friends, one of whom is a spokesman for hunting, go to a very remote part of Scotland to lay low from animal rights activists. Then, wait for it, they become the hunted. That’s it, that is exactly what this film is, a hunter becoming the hunted.
We’ve been here before, this story line will keep churning out sub par films time immemorial, however BLOODED adds a touch of the moral heebie-jeebies and this becomes one of BLOODEDs saving grace. The film is interspersed the interviews of the ‘survivors’ adding a documentary feel to the crime watch like reenactments, this cleverly adds emotion and depth to a pretty shallow story and helps keep things belting along at a fair old pace. At points you find yourself rooting for the wrong team, and I flip flopped between the two.
Now I’m not saying that this is an epic and should be put up there with the greats, but any film that poses a real question and leads a debate should be given credit. Anther saving grace is that BLOODED didn’t play to stereotype. At no point did the tension give in and it turn into a bloodbath, although I was bellowing at the telly for one of the victims to grab a shot gun, scream the words “VENGEANCE” and throw down in full unbridled technicolor. BLOODED, with it’s very slight flaws, deserves a watch and a much better DVD cover.
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Sadly, I was left a little cold by the politics (I was hoping for something a little more complex, like the lovely drama ‘Heart of Darkness’) but I really, really liked the documentary style of the fake interviews and doctored web footage.
So nice to see that someone else has seen this film!
i quite enjoyed it!