History Film / BloodFather

* BolivianArmyEnding: [[spoiler: Jonah outlives both John or the sicario, but is caught and incarcerated, and finds himself surrounded by vengeful cellmates.]]

* RewatchBonus: The movie poster is the climatic scene of the film.

* AdultFear: Lydia ran away and disappeared. Years later, she comes back with a drug addiction and being pursued by police and gangsters alike after being involved with them, and she confesses that it is because [[spoiler:she is guilty of murder]].

* DisappearedDad: Inverted by way of PerspectiveFlip. The movie is told from the POV of such father, who went to jail while his daughter was little, and she later run away.

* BadassBeard: John has a long, thick grey beard in the first half of the movie.

''Blood Father'' is a 2016 action film directed by Jean-François Richet. It stars Creator/MelGibson as John Link, a recent parolee and recovering alcoholic who winds up going on the run with his runaway teenage daughter Lydia (Erin Moriarty), when she unexpectedly resurfaces after being missing for years. As Link soon learns, Lydia is being pursued at the same time by the authorities and by a [[TheCartel Mexican drug cartel]] for reasons related to the fate of her last boyfriend, Jonah (Creator/DiegoLuna). Creator/WilliamHMacy has a small role as John's sponsor in [[TropaholicsAnonymous Alcoholic Anonymous]].

* TheDragon: The sicario is the most dangerous member of [[spoiler:Jonah's]] entourage, implied to terrify even him. Probably has to do with the fact that he is actually in the employ of [[spoiler:Jonah's far more powerful uncle and has been sent to keep watch and possibly assassinate Jonah once suspicions of his treachery are confirmed]].

* StupidCrook: At the start of the movie, one of Jonah's goons insults Lydia for buying them 9mm ammunition instead of .45 because he considers 9mm to be weak, even when Jonah himself points out that the goon is using a 9mm pistol.

* BigBad: Jonah drives Lydia to go on the run after forcing her to participate in his criminal activities, even after she guns him down. [[spoiler:Especially since he's revealed to still be alive and leading a group of criminals after her and John]].

* ExactWords: After Preacher and his wife turn on him and his daughter, a livid John overpowers and threatens them. Preacher jeers he wouldn't dare kill him with his daughter around. He's right. [[spoiler: John comes back later and nonchalantly shoots him.]]

* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:John is gunned down by the sicario and dies on Lydia's arms, though he manages to kill the sicario first and save his daughter.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by John during the final shootout when he tells Lydia to run while he covers, and [[DefiedTrope defied]] by her when she refuses to leave him behind. [[spoiler:It ends happening anyway: John dies in the shootout, but he saves Lydia.]]

* ProfessionalKiller: The sicario, a heavily tattooed hitman working for TheCartel. It turns out that he's not just there to hunt down John and his daughter, but also to keep on eye on [[spoiler:Jonah on behalf of his higher-ranking uncle.]]

* StupidEvil: [[spoiler:Jonah]] bites off more than he can chew by stealing from his powerful uncle and the movie makes it clear his time is limited, as evidenced by the [[spoiler:Sicario his uncle sends to watch him and kill him if he steps out of line]].

* DatingWhatDaddyHates: Lydia's last boyfriend was a Mexican gangster, John has disdain for boths gangsters and Mexicans.

* AdultFear: Lydia run away and disappeared. Years later, she comes back with a drug addiction and being pursued by police and gangsters alike after being involved with them, and she confesses that it is because [[spoiler: she is guilty of murder]].

* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler: John is gunned down by the sicario and dies on Lydia's arms, though he manages to kill the sicario first and save his daughter.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by John during the final shootout when he tells Lydia to run while he covers, and [[DefiedTrope defied]] by her when she refuses to leave him behind. [[spoiler: It ends happening anyway: John dies in the shootout, but he saves Lydia.]]

* BigBad[=/=]BiggerBad: Zig-zagged. It seems Lydia is being pursued by Jonah's drug lord uncle at first, but she's actually sought by [[spoiler:Jonah himself]]. Nevertheless, [[spoiler:Jonah]] is in deep fear of that same uncle.

''Blood Father'' is a 2016 action film directed by Jean-François Richet. It stars Creator/MelGibson as John Link, a recent parolee who winds up going on the run with his daughter after she seriously injures her boyfriend Jonah during a raid on a house after Jonah turns out to be connected to the Mexican drug cartel.

* AlliterativeName: '''L'''ydia '''L'''ink.

* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:Jonah, who gets shot in the neck early in the film and turns up later.]]

* ProfessionalKiller: The sicario, a heavily tattooed hitman working for the cartel. [[spoiler:It turns out that he's not just there to hunt down John and his daughter, but also to keep on eye on Jonah on behalf of his higher-ranking uncle.]]

* KilledMidSentence: [[spoiler: Preacher. "I can't believe you'd have the nerve-" *BLAM*]]

* TropaholicsAnonymous: [[PapaWolf John Link]] is a recovering alcoholic. He frequently attends AA group sessions with his neighbor and best friend Kirby serving as his sponsor, who often gripes that John doesn't make it easy for him.

* PapaWolf: John Link.
* ProfessionalKiller: The sicario.
* StealingFromTheTill: [[spoiler:Jonah. The tenants his group attacked early in the film were hiding what he stole.]]

* StealingFromTheTill: [[spoiler:Jonah]]