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Pulses are likely to remain level during In the Blood, a serviceable vehicle for MMA champ Gina Carano.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
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The New York Times by Andy Webster
Deficient even in most of its set pieces, In the Blood does Ms. Carano (and Caribbean tourism) few favors. Somebody, please give her a better script and director.
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RogerEbert.com by Brian Tallerico
When you reach the critical point that you consider that Trejo, the star of such gems as “Zombie Hunter” and “Dead in Tombstone”, to be above this material, you know you’re in a rare category of awful.
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Aside from being another rote addition to the revenge-film canon, John Stockwell's In The Blood is also a supreme waste of Gina Carano's talent.
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New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
Director John Stockwell (“Blue Crush”) knows how to make the best possible use of his star while adding a strong supporting cast, some pretty scenery and a taut mystery. Stockwell understands most of all that we don’t need Carano to talk; we need her to kick ass.
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The A.V. Club by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
In The Blood plays like demented cruise-commercial fan fiction.
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Washington Post by Mark Jenkins
As is typical of the genre, the plot gets sillier as it unfolds, while the violence gets gnarlier.
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Los Angeles Times by Martin Tsai
Like a typical Hollywood action-thriller, though, the screenplay jeopardizes the film. The twists concocted by writers James Robert Johnston and Bennett Yellin are mostly predictable; and the ones you don't see coming are outlandish.
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Carano’s badass-beauty charm notwithstanding, it’s a grim, formulaic saga in desperate need of some genuine B-movie fury and flair.
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Carano deserves better: She’s a formidable physical performer, and the current state of the MMA film on the DTV circuit is strong enough to shame this wan, drama-clogged effort.