I can assure everybody – a demonstrated nature of Maine state in this film amazes. Forests covered of snow, where were chosen beautiful shots of landscapes and places as cave and living tide. Just only birches were evoking a depression, but with everything else I had full all right.
Blood and Money has a screenplay written by a weak scriptwriter, a novice director and cinematographer with a big list. These called duties were made by one person names John Barr. His portfolio precisely expresses personal skills. Barr kept camera in ten full-length movies and nine shorts, but it is a first time, when he wrote a script and took filming process under control. A composer Zak McNeil, who isn’t maestro, has a potential, which doesn’t work here.
That’s wood screenplay tells about experienced green hunter in brilliant performance of Tom Berenger with typical main character nuances as personal guilty for death of daughter and a thing, which brings to fatal destiny – a bloodcoughing. A reason of his behavior stay in riddle and explains in evergreen scriptwriter to whose work ask interrogation questions: “What was a reason for don’t report to police?” or “Why didn’t he use a vantage point for save a hunter?” Empty magazines is the best joke by him.
A slowly walking with a sick health, a little obesity and seniority always helps to run away from more active casino robbers. Tom Berenger’s personage doesn’t demonstrate skills against opponents and mentioned marine past is far from committing actions. He walks, swears and mentions Jesus. It goes until dry confrontation with one of villains. The story follows to this scheme. Director fails in creation of suspense, which becomes obvious from first sounds. This telling gets needless and senseless. What are you expecting when hear tension tunes to coming policeman behind of you? Of course, he will praise your car!
Blood and Money did for a small budget in 475,000 dollars for which could do a well sound work in a scene of beating by buttstock, because loud and unrealistic, and show a recoil in gun shooting.
I was recalling in time of watching Jeremiah Johnson, which is about survival in nature of the Wild West; The Hunter with Willem Dafoe and Surviving the Game about ex-marine, who hides from armed hunters in forests. Blood and Money is the film without discoveries and with a simple, unprofessionally written and predictable plot, where spectacular acts Tom Berenger in whose character see an ocean.
