Blood Quantum is a solid zombie movie... which is my issue with it.

The hook of a majority First Nations cast is not incidental, there’s obvious ‘messaging’ going on, but there’s also so much ‘just being a zombie movie’ that it feels squandered.

And I’m someone who has loved zombie stories for decades. I’ve never been tired of them, only tired of the same zombie story being done again and again.

So to see an extended sequence of guys clearing out a building, something I’ve seen in one form or another so many times before, or there’s one guy with a sword, just because (and yes, I caught that he owns a pawn shop)...

Did I want 90 minutes of blunt messaging or sledgehammer to the face sermonizing about race relations over the past 500 years? No. But I expected a bit more than is here.

Was the writer/director more interested in doing a zombie movie than an allegory?

I think a limiting factor was that the white survivors and the structure of the camp are talked about but almost never seen.

Also the long-term planning is mentioned offhandedly. Like the movie knows everything will go south, so more emphasis is put on mentioning the boats.

And not to make this thread too long, but I’m not fond of stories that try to force a villain in when you don’t really need a dedicated antagonist. The way this movie goes about making the asshole just an asshole is another wasted opportunity, I think.