Now in the winter of their lives,
the remaining 4 Bloods return to
Vietnam, along with Paul’s uninvited
and somewhat estranged
son David (Jonathan Majors), to
complete two unresolved missions.
They hope to retrieve Norman’s
remains and return them to
the US for a funeral with full military
honors. They also plan to dig
up a crate filled with gold bullion.
They locate both, but find things
complicated by the arrival of a
group of young landmine activists
(played by Mélanie Thierry,
Paul Walter Hauser and Jasper
Pääkkönen) and some locals determined
to keep the gold in their
country.
There are two movie genres that
have become reductively associated
with an aging male audience
- one is the western, the other is
the war movie. Da 5 Bloods borrows
elements from both, and in
both the advanced age of its male
protagonists and its leisurely pace,
it plays like a movie designed to
be watched with your father and/
or grandfather on a Sunday af-
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