Blood Country

The school quality actors who deliver the dialogue in this epic tale almost succeed in turning a dismal period of U.S. history into comedy as they converse with each other. Watch it the next time you are dealing with insomnia. It might just become your favorite sleep aid.

The lack of sufficient context makes it difficult to watch. There's a feeling that parts of the narrative are missing never mind trying to form an opinion as to guilt or innocence.

I'm sorry...but I did really like this movie. I just can't figure out what the story is. In fact, I came to this site to see if somebody could explain it to me. Unfortunately, nobody else seems to understand what happened either.

There are just too many pieces missing in this movie. I like the sheriff...he's definitely a good guy who tries to do his best. I loved his feisty wife! The Black family situation made me angry, I never did understand what was happening with ...shoot, almost everybody. I just wish I understood the story.

One last thing; I looked for a book to read that maybe this movie may have been taken from, hoping to make some sense of this film but there doesn't seem to be one...at least not one that I could find. There must be someone out there who knows what this movie is about. Share it with us, please!

Blood Country: Written and directed by Travis Mills

Let me try to see if I can surmise exactly what this movie was about because honestly I have no clue. It introduces characters and then they leave with no rhyme or reason. It has this blood feud at the core of its story that seems to have started over cabbage. This movie is only 89 minutes long but it could have benefited from more time spent on the characters or the story. The pacing is dry and very, very slow. This film was just so boring. It shouldn't have been.

This was a meandering mess. It creaked along at a very slow pace throwing random characters into the proceedings developing none of them along the the way. I'm ragging on this indie film a bit much so let me state some things that were good about it.

It is a beautifully made film. The shot composition is extraordinarily well done and I enjoyed the technical work in that department.

This is where the compliments end I'm afraid. None of the cast is given much to do. Most of them stare off pensively in the distance. We gather no insight into what they're thinking or feeling. A narrator shows up about halfway in the film to tell us what is happening and it still is not enough.

We needed this narrator in the beginning to set it up. It catches the audience offguard when it happens. The action beats that periodically pop up are fairly languid as well. By the time the big chase happens for the fugitive cabbage murdering guy, it's not enough to wake people up. This might have been going for an art film western approach but it failed dramatically. It is a snooze fest.

I give this movie an F.

I still don't get who did what to whom?

I like the movie-craft, but spent the whole time watching trying to figure out whether the primary (but, not the sheriff) did it or what? Or, was there some framing going on... but by whom? I came here because I was searching the web to find out if somebody else got it. Maybe there was more clarity in the book.

I hope somebody who saw this lets me know.