Month: October 2020

Blood Quantum is an interesting movie. It starts from the beginning, the very beginning, and takes its time to build up to zombie hordes. The movie honestly could have started at the “6 Month” later interlude. This is approximately at the 30 minute mark. The movie would have been just as good if not better if they started there.

The action takes place on the Red Crow reserve. The Native Americans are somehow immune to whatever is driving the undead apocalypse, and a small number of them are holding onto their territory.

The early action is a little slow, but several of the characters are awesome, and there is plenty of blood and gore in the tail of the movie that was worth waiting for.

My personal favorite was Stonehorse Lone Goeman who plays “Gisigu”, the badass grandfather who takes care of the undead with his katana.

So what cost Blood Quantum points, putting it into Rainy Day Movie territory? The first is just the fact that the first 30 minutes of the movie are pretty much optional. The second was the fact that the Indians, who are immune, are letting non immune people into the compound without making them strip down to prove they haven’t been bitten, or putting newcomers into quarantine for a few days in case they are bitten. It just doesn’t make sense in a world where a bite means you are going to turn.

Blood Quantum Scoring

Sure, the zombie biting the guys d*ck off was an interesting touch, but you only get so many points for innovation. Blood Quantum earned itself a 68/100, putting it just 2 points outside Worth Your Time territory.

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I’m a huge fan of Martin Freeman. He was amazing as Bilbo Baggins and added humanity and reasonability to the Sherlock series. Without him Cargo wouldn’t have been the movie it is. He’s just an amazing actor.

Cargo tells the story of Andy, played by Freeman, as he, his wife, and his infant daughter travel down an Australian River after the Zombie Apocalypse has decimated the country.

I really liked the look and feel of the beginning of the movie. The world has come crashing down around the survivors, and you can feel their fear and anxiety.

Be warned, if you haven’t watched the movie, I’m about to give a few spoilers here, because I wanted to explain why I gave this movie a 66/100, putting it at the lower end of the Worth Your Time Scale, just one point away from being a Rainy Day Movie.

So what cost it points?

The world is clearly overrun and the survivors know just how bad it is. There are actual kits and instructions about how to spike your brain if your infected…

And yet Andy and his wife both make the mistake of going to investigate on their own. I get it, they have a kid, so it kinda, sorta makes sense that Andy scavenges alone, but for her to do it just make no sense at all. Her main focus should have been on her daughter.

The other thing that cost this movie points was the Australian Redneck who basically keeps his young woman hostage. I get it, they needed something to flesh out the movie, but it defocused off the zombies, which should be the main “bad guy” in any zombie movie, at least as far as I am concerned.

Cargo Scoring

Overall, the movie was good, and it is worth your time, it just could have been better with a few changes to the plot. As it is it is a Rainy Day Movie that scored 66/100.

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