In
The Blood (2014/Anchor Bay Blu-ray w/ DVD)
Picture:
B-/C Sound: B/B- Extras: D Film: B-
Ava
(Gina Carano) is a woman with a dark past, but when her husband is
kidnapped during their Caribbean honeymoon, must rely on her past
skills to find her newly wed husband, but as she searches for the
truth, she dives into the criminal underworld that exists on the
island paradise. She discovers how much the cartel has control of
the government and how far the corruption goes, but what the cartel
doesn't know, is how far she is willing to go to get her husband
back. Ava is survivor of child abuse, since she was a child she was
beaten and tortured by her criminal father to make her tougher than
anyone, so when the time come, she would be able to send others to
their grave first before they send her to her grave. Years later
after leaving the life of violence behind, her life seems perfect
until her wealthy husband disappeared after a vacation accident. She
discover he was kidnapped for illegal organ trafficking for his blood
type. Now, she must rely on the deadly skills she learned as a child
to not only battle the criminal underworld, but a corrupt police
force and government that covered it up.
You
can take a person out of the criminal organization, but you can never
take criminal out of a person. John Stockwell's In The Blood
(2014) was/is a non-stop action film filled with violence, revenge
and payback. When the main character is lied to and the legal system
fails, then the only recourse is to take things into your own hands
(most of the time illegal), which you can't really blame them for
that.
The
1080p 1.85 X 1 HD-shot digital High Definition image has more motion
blur than it should, which is worse on the softer, anamorphically
enhanced DVD version. The Dolby
TrueHD 5.1 lossless mix has a mostly consistent soundfield, but
sometimes has location audio issues, if not much. The lossy Dolby
Digital 5.1 mix on the DVD is weaker still, as expected. Extras
include Behind The Scenes of In the Blood.
-
Ricky Chiang
