Blood red sky

Language : German / English

 

Year of release : 2021

 

Run time : 2h03min

 

Genre : Thriller

 

Cast : Dominic Purcell

 

 

A woman with a rare disease leaves Germany for the USA to be helped by a doctor. Unluckily, the plane is hijacked by a terrorist group who already marked the muslim passengers, wrote a series of requests for them to read,framing them as the terrorists.

 

The woman, who is constantly injecting herself, stops doing it once she is shot dead by the volatile terrorist who posed as a stewardess.

 

This is a vampire story, with a different take on how the vampires look and act. They completely change their appearance once they feed on human blood, becoming more animal-like,not only in nature,but in looks.

 

The first time I watched it,I didn't like it,and I'll tell you why. The movie starts with the end. Then it goes to the beginning with the woman and her child getting ready to leave for the airport and then board the plane. Then it goes back in time for the second time (and keeps on doing it), while we're already back in time, to show us what happened to her, to make her the way she is. I don't like that, the double going back in time while we're already back in time.

When I watched it now, that didn't bother me as much, and I enjoyed the movie. Apparently when I first watched the movie I found our lead weak and pathetic, but now that perception changed.

Now I saw her as a mother who was trying to protect her child at the cost of her humanity, because in order to be able to fight the villains she had to stop injecting herself with the cure, and in doing so, she became less and less human, turning more and more into an animal, to the point, at the end of the movie SPOILER she doesn't recognize her own son, while she herself, is unrecognizable.

Another thing that changed with a second viewing was the fact that I didn't care the villains, who were already annoying and evil, got to become vampires and be more evil.

 

The movie is a sort of "From dusk till dawn" in the sky, or "Snakes on a plane".

 

The acting was fine.

The visual effects were fine.

The movie received mixed reviews, but it was the most successful German original movie on the Netflix platform, so much so, Netflix is doing a sequel.

 

As a Netflix production,the movie streams exclusively on the platform.

 

Rating : Worth a watch !