Blue Ruin

Blue Ruin is a 2013 American thriller film directed by Jeremy Saulnier, packaged on DVD.

Winner of the FIPRESCI Critics Prize at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, this energetic indie thriller follows a mysterious drifter who has been sitting on a long-held plan for revenge, waiting for a criminal's release from prison. But the path of revenge becomes entwined in the reality of consequences and retribution as each step comes back to bite him hard. Proving himself an amateur assassin, he winds up in a brutal fight to protect his estranged family.

Critic Reviews:

• " The world doesn't need another empty genre exercise. But as Blue Ruin reminds us, it can always use more filmmakers of Saulnier's re­sourcefulness, sensitivity and quiet assurance. " – Ann Hornaday

• " Blue Ruin starts promisingly with a hairy hobo living in a blue, rusty, bullet-holed Pontiac on a Delaware beach. " – Kate Muir

• " [A]n atmospheric, elegant piece, a more delicate, intriguingly nervous piece of pulp noir. " – Jonathan Romney