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Mel Gib­son goes berserk in the first Blood Father trailer

21 Sep 2016

The Aussie star plays an ex-con with revenge in his eyes in this Jean-Fran­cois Richet’s lean action thriller.

It’s easy to for­get that not so long ago Mel Gib­son was one of the most bank­able actors in Hol­ly­wood. His spec­tac­u­lar fall from grace in the ear­ly 2000s came after the mas­sive box office suc­cess­es of What Women Want and Signs, and his self-inflict­ed exile over the ensu­ing decade meant that we lost the peak years of arguably one of the finest actors of his generation.

Though his come­back has been gath­er­ing pace since the turn of the cur­rent decade, it now looks like Mad” Mel is firm­ly back in the groove. This year alone he’s climbed back into the director’s chair with Hack­saw Ridge, an aston­ish­ing World War Two dra­ma star­ring Andrew Garfield, and next up he’s up to his old tricks in Blood Father, reclaim­ing the hard-man-with-pay­back-on-his-mind throne ably occu­pied in Gibson’s absence by Liam Neeson.

The film, which is based on the nov­el of the same name by Peter Craig and direct­ed by Mes­rines Jean-Fran­cois Richet, sees Gibson’s recov­er­ing ex-con John Link get mixed up with a Mex­i­can car­tel thanks to his way­ward teenage daugh­ter (Erin Mori­ar­ty). It’s just the kind of lean, mean action thriller that could kick­start a mini career revival for the 60-year-old Aus­tralian lead­ing man. Check out the trail­er above and let us know what you make of it at @LWLies

Blood Father hits cin­e­mas on 7 October.

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