Blood Quantum

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This movie is not for everyone, so if you want to leave the theater (something you might wish you'd be able to do right now, Quarantine and all), do so and don't blame the movie if it doesn't do you, as you'd wish it'd do you. Don't get me wrong, the movie has quite a lot of flaws, but it also has some neat and interesting ideas overall. The mixing of native americans and immunity and other stuff really elevate this to a degree. The constant uses of cliches drag it back down many times too though. The beginning though is ripe and rich with tensions and suspense. And then it does something unexpected, time wise ... which I thought a good movie. Unfortunately this new setting does not last long and the ticking time bomb goes off as expected ... Samurai swords (cool) and unnecessary sacrifices included ...

The biggest problem wit the movie is that it is not scary. Undead need to be scary. The special effects are decent. The acting is above average for an amazon movie. The camera work is very good. But the writing is incoherent, the flow too uneven. They tried to present a big chunk of the world when a smaller piece would have sufficed the story. Walking Dead is scarier than this. Entertainment value is low.

This follows the pre and post zombie apocalypse formula. You get a bunch of misfits & all controlling adults. There is a pregnant teenager & her boyfriend & his delinquent best friend. The post apocalyptic looks like a mixture of the walking dead series and Mad Max trilogy. They have a settlement that is safe from zombie invasion but there is a feeling that even in paradise good things will inevitably come to an end. The writers are obviously inspired by & also pays homage to George Romero's night of the living dead franchise. However, they cannot seem to captivate the viewer into caring about those bunch of clichéd characters. The ending holds no surprise... With some social commentary.

REVIEW - BLOOD QUANTUM Over years we have seen many Zombie films, some being better than others and some being just terrible. Many of these films repeat the same story over and over again but this film literally blew me away! In almost every Zombie film I've seen animals don't become Zombies except for those created by the Umbrella company in the Resident Evil franchise. So this film does have quite a few surprises and doesn't quite follow all of the other Zombie films out there. Imagine if Original Americans were immune to the (whatever) which causes people to turn into a Zombie after they die, yes how original is that! Absolutely brilliant film, slow in places and shocking in others with people dying who (no spoilers!). See the infection from the start, how it spreads, how it effects people and ultimately what happens. Thoroughly enjoyed this out of the normal Zombie flick and I honestly can't believe why this is only a 5 on IMDB! So I'm giving this a huge..... Rating 10 out of 10

This movie circles around a Native American community that happen to be immune for the zombie virus. First the best part of the movie, the camera work is outstanding, it really is. Now the bad news, at times there is action, but most time is filled with talking, in the middle of the movie there are 3 scenes with only talking, the scenes combined that take up 30 minutes and is hard to endure. The story, well, that has been done a 1000 times, nothing new. The action, half of the action scenes are sadly out of camera. The acting, well, the cast proof that that is not their strongest point, but it not so bad as many B movies.

The plot, the acting, the cinematography, the sets, you name its alllll absolutely shocking, 5 kids with a mobile phone could make a better film. Avoid it like "the plague" Horendous, truly abysmal, how do films like this every get made? have a nap for 2 hours instead, your life will be better for it.. how do you give 0 stars ?

I had high expectations for this film. I loved the possibilities stemming from mixing horror and modern native american life, as well as the visual style which seemed akin to Mandy, one of my all time favourites. The opening scene was great! The special effect looked great and it set an eerie tone, promising something deliberate and new. Turns out it's just a zombie flick with cheap gore and idiotic characters with seemingly suicidal tendencies. The cherry on top being the main character dad's horrible acting: I realize he's supposed to be tough and dead-pan but he ends up coming off like he wants to go off set and sleep. It even has one of those cliché unnecessary sacrifices at the end where a character wants to fight to his death for no reason á la Forrest Whitaker in Rogue One. What follows is a genuinely heartwrenching scene but all empathy towards the characters is gone at that point making it wholly moot. I felt insulted and angry at the end, something a movie has never made me feel before.

"Just like the dog. Just like the fish." The dead are coming back to life in Jeff Barnaby's socially aware zombie flick, Blood Quantum. As an impressive ode to the legacy of George A. Romero, Barnaby has given us a tale of the end of the world-where only indigenous peoples are spared as the world burns in chaos. Six months after the apocalypse, those who have survived now reside on Mi'gMaq reserve of Red Crow, where they have regrouped and implemented new rules to live by. Along with mostly indigenous people, a small handful of non-indigenous survivors have escaped the dead for now. Joseph (Forrest Goodluck) and Lysol-yes that was the character's name well before Covid introduced surreal anecdotes regarding disinfectants, (Kiowa Gordon) are two brothers who have arrived at fundamentally different understanding as to why the dead keep coming back to life. The relationship between the two brothers is in constant flux as they try to grasp the fact that their father; town sheriff (Michael Greyeyes) was never around for his first born, Lysol, but was seemingly always present for Joseph, to dire consequence for the two brothers. Just as the community of survivors comes to find practicality in their new reality a war is waged and a final battle begins, pinning the walking dead and humans alike of one belief system against people of a different view. In the third and final act the depravity of men becomes worse than what Mother Earth has unleash. With a little tightening of the wrench, Blood Quantum could compete with the best of 'em. It is an entertaining zombie film; those of us who love the genre will especially dig it. The movie's message is spelled out clearly and it plays out well as the metaphor that all of our decisions will come back and haunt us. Had the dialog used a little fine tuning, Blood Quantum could soar.

The first act of this movie is amazing. It had me thinking that we were in cult classic territory. And then the brakes were applied, hard... the entire second act was an exercise in boredom with some preachiness sprinkled in for seasoning. The third act opens with a bang and I'm thinking, we're back, redemption time... alas it was not to be, like a microcosm of acts 1 and 2, the brakes are applied and we slow everything down once more and the film meanders to a nonsensical ending. This is a shame because the potential is clearly there... but every time momentum is built the creators opted to let things simmer down. Now maybe this would have been acceptable if the writing, characters, etc... could stand on their own, but they can't. Characters and story are very poorly developed and you aren't going to end up caring about any of them. Something that I did enjoy was that our de facto protagonist didn't adhere to the collected, calm, and cool Indian stoic stereotype. It's clear early on that the guy is a wreck and it makes him quite likeable. So kudos for that. In the end it's worth a watch... when it's good, it's great. Just a shame that the creative team couldn't hit that note consistently.