Review of Blood Simple (1985) by Hotelcentral — 31 Jan 2016
I guess if you lived in a small Texas town where watching the water tower rust is a big nightly thrill then "Blood Simple" might seem worthy of high praise. Myself, I found it to be dull. Very dull.
The characters all seem a bit dull too, both in the sense of being uninteresting as well as just a bit dense or stupid. The plot structure is less a peeling away of the onion than a series of misadventures in which things get progressively worse, which is usually what happens when a bunch of stupid, dense stupid leap to conclusions based on scanty evidence and then refrain from clearing things up through the use of some obvious dialog.
The final scene is just the slightest bit exciting, but the question is whether it's worth sitting through 90+ minutes of relative boredom to get there. I would say catch a few episodes of Seinfeld.
This review of Blood Simple (1985) was written by Hotelcentral on 31 Jan 2016.
Blood Simple has generally received very positive reviews.
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