Blood on the Leaves

This is one of those movies that suffers from...lack of marketing. Maybe it made the Laemmle rounds, I don't know but if not, it sure should have. It will, of course, scare away a certain class of people who will not want to hear the harsh reality of living in certain cities and their domains. This is also one of those movies that nail the case for story and character both of which are in abundance in this film. (BTW, the tech specs say it was shot on a GH4 which is certainly capable of a much better image; I suspect the filmmakers wanted the look the movie has and I have to agree: I'm not sure brilliant colors would work.) The two main characters have relatively limited experience but are a phenomenal duo here. The twists and turns are well motivated as is the red herring in the character of Rio. Highly recommended if you are in the mood for a gritty well done exchange of viewpoints.

Just watched this on amazon prime earlier, so here's my thoughts..

I'm reviewing this from the perspective of a micro budget movie. I applaud the filmmakers for creating a feature on such a low budget, however, it certainly has a lot of flaws (mostly due to the budget-not the talent involved)

Honestly, the acting, directing, and script were overall fairly decent. Not too many complaints in that department. Everything felt believable and the scenario was interesting.

But....the production quality looked extremely cheap. Once again, a lot of micro budget movies look this way, but it's definitely hard to mentally get past this in a cheap made movie like this. Sometimes it didn't appear as if anything was even edited or color graded. It looks as if the shots were taken directly from the camera, put into the editing system, and that was it. Now I could be totally WRONG about this, I'm just saying how it looked in my mind.

I feel like with a bigger budget, these guys could probably make some nice films though

There's some great writing and acting on display here - just a shame it's marred somewhat by the ultra-low production values and shoddy sound. Certainly worth a look, if you can tolerate its cheapness.

It's an OK, movie. I watched via Amazon Prime, so I was only out my time for watching. Worth seeing if you don't have to pay and you don't have anything else to do, or if you want to get out of the 'honey- do' list. A few things I noticed that I couldn't get past.

1. The tree that fell on the city boy was clean cut and it was supposed to have just fallen. At least attempt to make it look like it fell on it's own.

2. Out of all the trees in the woods this takes place in, city boy happens to be next to the one that falls. Umm ..... I've got a hard time with this point.

3. After the tree fell, city boy tried to dig out his leg from under the tree with a rock and a stick, yet he brought a shovel to bury the man he shot. Really?? Just have the hunter dig your leg out from under the tree with the shovel. I guess if he would have done that, it would have been a short movie.

The dialog between the 2 was decent. City life vs. Country life. Growing up in the city vs. Growing up in the country. My beliefs vs.your beliefs. Should the hunter run and risk being shot, and if city boy shoots the hunter then he's stuck under the tree with no one to help in sight. Interesting.

A movie needs to make me believe that the events really happened for me to enjoy it or get something out of it. Because of the 3 points above, my opinion is that the events could have and should have occurred differently. Like I said, it was an OK movie, but it could have been better.

Writers know nothing about hunting or outdoor skills. Totally unrealistic. Writers over look the obvious approach to scraping some dirt... I can't go on. This was so bad!