Aside from his cartoon villain roles in Machete Kills and The Expendables 3, we haven't properly seen Mel Gibson in action since 2012's How I Spent My Summer Vacation. That's about to be remedied by the gnarly thriller Blood Father, in which a grizzled Gibson takes arms against a desert of bad guys. Check out the trailer.
If Gibson's recent form and shenanigans don't quite have you cheering for this, it's worth noting Blood Father's promisingly heavyweight pedigree. The director is Jean-François Richet, who made both parts of the stunning Mesrine. And it's based on a novel by Peter Craig, who wrote The Town. Craig shares the screenplay's credit with Straight Outta Compton's Andrea Berloff.
As you'll have seen from the clip, Blood Father sees Gibson's down-at-heel tattoo artist John Link throwing his parole into jeopardy when he gets into a spat with some drug dealers who've taken issue with his estranged daughter. Kids, eh?
William H. Macy, Elisabeth Röhm, Thomas Mann, Erin Moriarty, Diego Luna and Michael Parks co-star, and the film's out in the UK on August 25.