Blood Crime (2002)

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

As Good As It Gets

A Masterpiece!

Blistering performances.

**SPOILERS** The movie "Blood Crime" has so many inconsistencies in it that it's almost impossible to follow much less comprehend.We have a burned out Seattle undercover cop Daniel Pruitt, John Schaech,who decides to call it quits and move out to the great and wild American North West in Oregon State and go camping together with his wife Jessica, Liz Lackey. It's when Pruitt drives back in town to get some food and drinks his wife is then brutally attacked and raped by an unknown assailant. Finding Jessica in a total state of shock Pruitt drives her back to town only to side swipe a tractor-trailer driven by Bobby M, Paul Glover. If anyone should be outraged it's Bobby, who's truck was almost run off the road, who confronts Pruitt only to have Jessica hysterically accused the totally shocked Bobby of being the person who raped her! This has Pruitt brutally pistol whip Bobby and, after beating him within an inch of his life, dumps him inside the back of his truck without even bothering to call for medical help, for the badly beaten up Bobby, and then leaves the scene.It's later at the local hospital where he took Jessica that Pruitt realizes that his wife, in her hysterical state of mind, had misidentified her attacker. This is when Jessica accuses every man there, doctor & male nurse, who are treating her as being the one who raped her! You could just have imagined what was going through Pruitt's confused mind when Bobby was later found dead in the back of his truck by the local police! Even worse it turned out that Bobby was the son of the town's Sheriff Morgan McKenna, James Caan! McKenna is a man who believed in frontier justice with him being the sole judge jury and executioner of the, innocent or not, accused individual! It's at this point that the movie goes into a giant black hole where nothing at all seems to make any sense. We have the very astute Sheriff MaKenna acting as if he's a total jerk in not noticing the connection that Pruitt had to his son's murder. We also have Pruitt doing his utmost in destroying any evidence that can throw any light in him being at the scene where Bobby was found beaten to death.***SPOILER****The most startling, and unbelievable, revelation in the movie is that the person who did in fact murder Bobby wasn't Pruitt! This made even Pruitt's wife's accusations of Bobby, a totally innocent man, raping her make far more sense then in Pruitt not being Bobby's killer!The film "Blood Crime" is so confusing and disjointed that you completely forget that it's Sheriff McKenna and Pruitt, both lawmen, who are by far the two worst characters in it. Taking the law into their own hands and meeting out justice regardless of the innocence or guilt of those their meeting out "justice" to makes them as bad, if not even worse, then any bad guy in the movie. In fact the person-not Bobby McKenna-who was later identified by Jessica as her rapist seemed to be, without any proof that he did it, far more innocent then the already proved to be innocent and now dead Bobby McKenna himself! A real clunker of a movie "Blood Crime's" biggest crime was that it showed-and even encouraged-the notion that no matter what the evidence is a cop or law enforcer can do anything he pleases, even murder, regardless of where the evidence leads him. Something that the police departments all over the USA have been trying so hard to disprove since the violent and riot torn 1960's when police were held even in lower esteem then the criminals that they were to protect us from!

You can have good actors, a great crew working on the movie and more than enough money to do the things you want to but when you have a bad script it all ends and a movie just can not work out."Blood Crime" has a bad written script. Well, perhaps bad is not the most correct word to use since the story is more just an highly unlikely one. You just never get sucked into it because it all and the way the story progresses seem so highly unlikely. You can say that I even was a bit annoyed by the movie its story at times. It isn't credible and has some gaping plot-holes. Seriously, when your name is Preston A. Whitmore II you should be writing some better movies than this.Because the story isn't much good basically nothing really ever works out in the movie. Sure the movie has James Caan in it but this really doesn't make this movie any more good or interesting to watch.You movie you can really easily do without.4/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

"Blood Crime" tells of a detective (Schaech) and his wife (Lackey) whose vacation becomes a nightmare when she is raped and he becomes embroiled in the murder of the suspect and the subsequent investigation spearheaded by a tough rural Sheriff (Caan). "Blood Crime" has the look and feel of a low budget made-for-tv flick with fade-to-black every 15 minutes for commercial breaks and the usual hacked screenplay with flaws, plotholes, and foibles aplenty. With New Zeland standing in for Oregon and drama standing in for common sense, this mediocre flick would have us believe a coroner can not only tell us a gun was used to beat a man to death but he can identify the caliber of the weapon. Or, that a Sheriff can commit a double homicide in the name of justice with impunity...etc. A journeyman no-brainer B-flick with B-flick talent for the sofa spud. (C)

I enjoyed this TV movie, but something about it kept irritating the heck out of me. Not enough to make me quit watching, though.This is one of those movies made with American stars in New Zealand or Australia, but the action is supposed to be taking place somewhere in the United States. In this movie, it's the American Northwest.However, the rest of the cast are actors from New Zealand or Australia, so they have to fake an American accent. Some actors are better at this than others.Often the faked American accent fails when the actor is required to yell a line. Whatever, it's really, really distracting.Just a complaint, that's all. As I said, I enjoyed this movie nevertheless.