Blood Simple

What you see is this basic situation, common scenario played out very well by a very small cast of characters. There are really six characters. Four make up the bulk of the storyline. And you have this girl who wants to get away from this guy and decides to sleep with someone that worked for her boyfriend. That pisses her boyfriend off, as it should. And he knows she's fooling around so she gets a private investigator. This private investigator is a cocky motherfucker who has his own set of rules. That's what throws this movie off. He eventually goes against the wishes of the boyfriend and sends this film off towards its ending scene.

The private investigator played by M. Emmet Walsh is fantastic. Not the Marty character or Ray isn't good. But this role really grabbed my attention. Ray had a way of making a basic scene seem bigger than it really was. And the female lead, Frances McDormand showed why she is such a great actress. She just made me feel like death was on the doorstep waiting to kill.

This is not a complex movie. It doesn't need to be. Very Hitchcock, very simplistic (no wonder simple is in the title) and very low-budget. The independent look to it all gives it a certain edge. I like it.

7/10