I wish he’d get better offers, wish he had the option of turning down crap like this.
#Blood money movie 2017 series#
The finale is unsatisfying in the extreme - suggesting nobody here actually watched “Sierra Madre.”įitzgerald’s hysteria/mania here adds a little to her “reel,” and Coltrane should probably find a series - like Artist.Īnd there’s Cusack, the man in (dyed hair) black, there to judge, to improv a one-liner, here and there - “Man, you are a…TERRIBLE person.” “You really LEANED into it, didn’t you?” Structurally, director Lucky McKee (Hah!) chooses to tell this story in flashback so we know the scope of the final conflict. The whole “Treasure of the Sierra Madre/Trespass” of what people, even friends, do to each other when big money is involved is handled perfunctorily. The chase pauses for characters to work out their issues, or explain themselves. The stereotypical sadism of such characters only emerges later. He seems shocked when somebody gets hurt/killed. The villain isn’t the sharpest at woodlore, isn’t really a killer or a crack shot or anything like that. Characters are often simply drawn, and may appear stereotyped.” Wikipedia conveniently describes “A melodrama as a dramatic work in which the plot, which is typically sensational and designed to appeal strongly to the emotions, takes precedence over detailed characterization. And when the bad guy gets on their trail, a chase begins. One of the guys is too righteous to take it, one bends to her will. “It’s MY money!” she says after finding it. A track star nicknamed Cheetah, she once had a thing with stuck-in-his-hometown Victor (Coltrane), and may be having a thing with Jeff (Artist, of TV’s “Quantico”). And two of them, especially the emotional, shrill, scheming and occasionally ruthless Lynn (Fitzgerald) vow to keep it.
#Blood money movie 2017 full#
Three high school friends - Fitzgerald, Ellar Coltrane (“Boyhood”) and Jacob Artist - with little in common save for collective sexual history, reunite for a river trip through Deliverance Country, Georgia.ĭude in black bails out of an airplane with black bags full of loot. Still, here he is, playing the heavy - a runaway extortionist who purses a trio of trio of river rafters who have gotten their hands on his haul - in “Blood Money.”Īnd I’m betting the leading lady ( Willa Fitzgerald of TV’s “Little Women”) was contractually obligated to recite this line. You can’t point in any serious way to him being wholly responsible for his own fate. I mean, I’m human.īut Cusack’s decline to “black baseball cap” roles in a string of C-D grade thrillers is fascinating, nevertheless. I take no pleasure, none, in tracking the downward spiral of the Great John Cusack‘s big screen career.