The film received generally positive reviews.
Vincent Canby of
The New York Times wrote:Paul Morrissey continues to be a cinema original and his
Mixed Blood, a most unorthodox look at life in the drug trade on New York's
Lower East Side, is successively comic, brutal, primitive and sophisticated—a comedy with the manners of a live-action cartoon for jaded adults.Sid Smith wrote for the
Chicago Tribune:Although still fairly crude, the movie has more style than Morrissey's earlier pictures, and the lovely
salsa score provides a biting undertone and subtlety Morrissey once avoided. It's not a perfect picture, and sometimes it's a boring one, but
Mixed Blood is a fairly successful
neo-realist look at something most moviemakers wouldn't go near. ==References==