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Blue Ruin review
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A good movie

Since I kept hearing interesting things about Jeremy Saulnier, I was quite eager to watch one of his directing efforts so I thought I might check this one out. Well, for this 2nd directing effort, Saulnier took the old (and usually rather boring) revenge genre but he gave it an interesting fresh approach. First of all, the intro had such a great mood with a nice cloud of mystery. Of course, to give practically no information to the viewers is a fairly easy and rather artificial way to create some suspense but it really worked here. Then, Saulnier took the most average looking guy possible to play this avenger which was maybe not completely original but it was still again very effective. It also helped that I wasn't so familiar with Macon Blair who was completely unrecognizable when the movie started. Still, even if most of the movie worked fine, there were some parts that still bothered me though. For example, even if the main character was supposed to be an average guy with no gun knowledge, he did display some massive survival skills. Of course, you might argue that someone who lived in the streets might acquire such skills but I don't think that most homeless guys would know what to do when they are hunted down by a family of psychopaths. Furthermore, when the cloud of mystery had been removed, it turned out to be a rather generic revenge tale after all. Anyway, to conclude, even if it was maybe not a masterpiece, I really enjoyed this flick and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you are interested in Jeremy Saulnier's work.

7/10
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Added by johanlefourbe
4 years ago on 25 May 2019 07:14

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