Blood Red Sky is a vampire/plane hijacking movie, Passenger 57 meets Dracula, the movie begins at the climax then flashes back to the beginning with Nadja(Peri Baumeister) and her son Elias boarding a plane in Europe on their way to the US to meet a doctor for treatment of a mysterious illness. After take off a crew of terrorists, who's motive is and remains opaque, take control of the plane. What they didn't count on was that Nadja, is a vampire!
Baumeister gives a pretty decent performance, conveying vampire savagery as well as maternal love with equal commitment. Kais Setti who's character befriends the mother and child also does a good job. The terrorists are mostly performed with run of the mill mustache twirling although its nice to see Dominic Purcell, of Prison Break fame, as their leader although he's underutilized. The cast is serviceable if not particularly inspired.
The issue is the script, it's a great idea, you can imagine it was an elevator pitch a film executive salivated over, but the execution is muddled, the pacing sluggish, there are emotional and narrative ambitions which are not effective and run counter to the basic, bonkers but fun simple premise. It's not terrible but it's not particularly successful either. Netflix has pledged in 2021 that they will release a movie a day, which is great, and there's a lot in Blood Red Sky that's decent, but there needs to be a better balance of product and process. Releasing a movie a day is great but if, in aggregate, those movies slant to the mediocre or the banal the feat is kind of pointless.
Vampires On A Plane.
Currently streaming on Netflix.
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