Reed fatally shoots her when he mistakes her for the buck he’s been trying to bag. Regarding the death of the perceived criminal team leader: Her only appearance occurs before the action starts. So when George becomes the film’s sacrificial lamb due to being in the wrong place at the wrong time, his demise carries the film’s one true sting. We see George through her description of her marriage before we meet him, which in a way balances him out and gives him some humanity. She’s the nice woman who waits on Reed every day at the diner. Reed realizes he and George have a common tie, George’s wife, Debbie ( Kristen Hager). Reed talks to George, and the younger man seeks his advice. A former Marine and war veteran, Reed meets George at what I assume is an AA meeting, approaching him after George gives a somber speech about trying to reconcile the wartime atrocities he’s seen and done with the peace he desperately seeks at home. The first 30 or so minutes are devoted to Reed’s life and his hunting for deer in isolation. He is scripted well enough to makes you feel for him. Unlike Reed, the most complicated-and nicest-character here is a war veteran named George ( Jimmy LeBlanc). There’s an Old Testament God sense of punishment at play here, where the wages of sin is death regardless of how nice a character is.
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Additionally, since “Blood and Money” takes place in the untamed natural habitat of Northern Maine, its tone seems to mimic nature’s harsh code of survival of the fittest. There’s a line that hints that this is so, in fact. Left to their own devices, they’re a hot mess of mistakes and flawed logic. For example, I concluded that perhaps the real reason the villains were so useless was because the first person Reed took out was the sharpest tool in their shed. These situations inspired more of a response than his character’s frustrations did, because empathy requires three dimensions while schadenfreude only needs one.Īnd yet, there are ideas-depicted and deduced-that show that some care and thought were put into this material. Berenger effectively curses the gods, screaming profanity into the void while I smirked on my side of the screen. After all, he’s trying to outwit and outrun four violent criminals, yet every time he gets his hands on a weapon, or even a leg up on the enemy, the gun is empty and the advantage is temporarily lost. When karma plays its tricks on Reed, we should be as aggravated as he is about his haplessness. His own motivations remain too vague for us to latch on to him. The film’s antihero, Jim Reed ( Tom Berenger) is more fleshed out, but he’s still rather flat. The villains are so expendable and dumb that they barely even register. More development of character, suspense and plot would have gone a long way toward making this stick to one’s crime genre-loving ribs.
Learn more about Blood Money at the following links. The film does not currently have a release date.
The film stars Ollie Barbieri ( Skins, Anuvahood), Klariza Clayton ( Skins, Harry Brown), and Scott Chambers ( Chicken, The Hippopotamus), as well as debut performances from Sabrina Hansen and Nicholas Bourne.
The film was shot over a period of two weeks on location in Normandy, France. This British film was produced by twin brothers Luke White and Ed White and with a screenplay by Emmy award winner Rosy Deacon ( Shards). Soon it is clear there’s a killer in the house and the group must figure out who is responsible before they all suffer the consequences. Paranoia and fear sets in and the friends begin to turn on each other. But as they wait for the chance to escape from their secluded holiday home, they soon realise the body has gone missing. They hide the body and make plans to sell the painting and return home. Blood Money SynopsisĪfter a botched art heist in France, a group of friends are left with a body on their hands and the gendarme hot on their trail. LONDON, ENGLAND (February 26th, 2016) – Porthos Films today announced the release of the first trailer for the indie feature, Blood Money. Porthos Films Release Trailer For Horror Film Blood Money
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