derekcurrie

... Because by the end, the audience wishes either the main character or the author would kill themselves and put you out or your misery. That's about it. The genre of the plot, the inexplicable time loop, is usually fun and interesting. This variation has a few fun turns. But the progress of the time loop cycles around a whopping huge and bottomless plot hole that flushes away anything good about this film. I found it infuriating to watch. It's not that it's poorly made. It's that the plot is so poorly contrived. Save yourself from masochism and skip this extraordinary mess.

If you search around, you'll find in the Internet the original script for Bloodline as well as the 'Workprint' videos saved by the film's original director. To be honest, the original script needs a couple more drafts in order to properly explain the story to the audience. Too much of it was left vague and poorly explained. But the plot did make sense when both the script and initial footage are considered together. It's hard to know exactly what happened to drive away the film's director. But what happened afterward is a classic Hollywood mess. Core points of the plot were ignored, others ripped away, others turned inside out to the point of blatantly contradicting basic Hellraiser plot and character concepts. Despite the idiotic mess made of the plot, much of it is beautifully done. It was the very last of the Hellraiser films with any level of inventiveness and class. As such, it's worth watching. But raspberries to the dolts who bolted together the elegant remnants of this film into a lumbering ignoramus.