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.

Drawing without a release with field points to shoot a deer? A "compact bow?" A bb gun? Worsening head injury with each scene? lol

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

I have to agree with Texan on most counts. I, too, can not figure out why they didn't just take the shovel and dig a hole under Young Tony's foot. If they had at least tried that and hit a big rock it would have been more credible.

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.