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Blu-ray Review - Flesh + Blood

FLESH + BLOOD Jennifer Jason Leigh

Two years before he delivered "RoboCop" to the masses, director Paul Verhoeven attempted his first connection to Hollywood-style filmmaking with 1985's "Flesh + Blood." Remaining true to his European sensibility, Verhoeven didn't simply deliver a big screen adventure with swinging swords, damsels in distress, and castle battles, but a picture with distinct elusiveness, eschewing heroes and villains to create a war movie with a sophisticated morality. And rape. Lots of rape. "Flesh + Blood" doesn't display the helmer firing on all cylinders, but it's an interesting chapter in his gore-stained career, unleashing his signature cinematic roar on an industry that often had no clue what to do with him. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com

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