Blood For Dust Review

Excellent, unassuming Fargo-styled crime thriller. Downtrodden salesman Cliff (an effective, ever-reliable Scoot McNairy) is struggling through life, drifting aimlessly within various emotional states for both his professional and homelife.
Increasingly desperate, the downward spiral continues after a chance meeting with a former unpredictable colleague, continuing to mislead his old mate into the promise of fast-cash.
The promised dollars through high-risk criminal activity starts with a road trip along the snowy roads of Montana for a devious drug baron John (an excruciatingly good Josh Lucas) who assigns Cliff a chaperone to maintain the trust.
Slim (the great Ethan Suplee) tags along for the delivery of the contraband, but as a viewer you just know there’ll be an eventual bloodbath, if things inevitably go wrong.
Blood for Dust, is an indie project with huge impact, well acted by the aforementioned principles and an array of side-characters making a difference to how the purposely slow storytelling unfurls.
A quirky Nora Zehetner is Amy, sombre Amber Rose Mason is Rebecca, both admirably tied to Cliff, creating wrinkles to his train of thought during proceedings. Stephen Dorff makes a cool cameo alongside his True Detective S3 co-star, McNairy. Most prominent is Kit Harrington, as trigger happy Ricky, a loose cannon nobody can trust.
Tension builds, a good drama with violent outbursts. Highly recommended Blood For Dust for admirers of complex situations by amateurs dabbling within a criminal world.
★★★
Out on Digital in the UK from 13th January 2025 / Scoot McNairy, Kit Harrington, Josh Lucas, Ethan Suplee, Nora Zehetner, Stephen Dorff, Amber Rose Mason / Dir: Rod Blackhurst / 101 Films / 18
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