“Blood Money” (* out of four) was a lackluster thriller in which everyone must have been in this for money and no other discernible reason about three friends (Ellar Coltrane, Willa Fitzgerald, Jacob Artist) off on a wilderness trip who are hunted and stalked by a redneck psycho (John Cusack) who is out to retrieve his bag of stolen cash. Once they find out about this, it gradually turns all the friends against one another. Modern-day retelling of “The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre” and “Deliverance” is ugly-looking and drab. Cusack, for some reason, attempts to be trying to change his image in playing creeps at this stage of his career but he really should go back to playing the nice guy next door.

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