Review of Blood

Blood (IV) (2022)
3/10
A searing condemnation of.....
4 February 2023
Warning: Spoilers
...marriage, divorce, procreation, poor parenting, adultery, the legal system, drought, addiction, farming, mental health, negligent pet ownership, euthanasia, overworked medical professionals, bureaucracy, olives in pasta sauces, lax leash laws, hospice, dumb (but cute) cops, rampant truancy, pernicious anemia, sibling rivalry, step-sibling cookery, mud-based filicide, holes in dead evil trees (or Evil Dead trees), seductive nannies, Carhartt jackets on guys over 50, overpriced/undersized oak caskets, woefully slow film-making and prepubescent rural pseudo-vampirism as a metaphorical and literal depiction of the incontrovertible fact that all children are blood-sucking and ruinous creatures from birth.

I fast-forwarded through chunks of the movie and still got all that from it. I felt bad for the dog because he was named Pippin and in this movie and got blamed for stuff that was clearly the fault of the writer and director. It was too much, too familiar, too slow, too this and too that.
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