Blood Brother (2018 film)

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Blood Brother
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Directed by John Pogue
Written byMichael Finch
Karl Gajdusek
Charles Murray
Produced byMichael Luisi
Starring Trey Songz
Jack Kesy
R-Truth
Fetty Wap
Hassan Johnson
China Anne McClain
CinematographyMatthew Irving
Edited byLester Wilson
Music byMark Kilian
Production
companies
Distributed by Lionsgate
Release date
  • November 30, 2018 (2018-11-30)
Running time
85 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Blood Brother is an American action-thriller film directed by John Pogue and written by Michael Finch, Karl Gajdusek, and Charles Murray. The film stars Trey Songz.[ citation needed ]

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Premise

A recently released convict begins to take murderous revenge against his childhood friends, whom he believes let him take the fall for a crime they collectively committed. As the bodies start piling up, one of the friends Sonny (Trey Songz), now a police officer, will stop at nothing to put an end to the murderous rampage and to right the many wrongs of their tragically violent past.

Cast

Production

Blood Brother was originally titled Brother's Blood, and was announced in December 2015. [3] Principal photography on the film began on January 13, 2016 in New Orleans. [4] [5] WWE Studios would be co-producing and co-financing the film under a deal with Lionsgate's CodeBlack Entertainment, with Michael Luisi producing for WWE. [1]

Reception

Blood Brother received mostly negative reviews from critics. Critics of the review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes gave the film 17%, based on six reviews, receiving a 3.6/10 average rating. [6] On Metacritic, Blood Brother's score is higher by 1%, holding it on 18%, based on 4 reviews, indicating "overwhelming dislike". [7]

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