“Into The Ashes” (** out of four) was a mild melodrama about a former criminal (Luke Grimes) attempting to go straight but is lured back into the criminal underworld when his wife (Marguerite Moreau) is kidnapped by his former crew (led by Frank Grillo) who want back the money he previously stole and he is at a personal crossroads in which to revert back to his previous criminal life and seek vengeance or move on. Reasonably well-acted and well-made but film only simmers and never fully comes alive and- thus- never escapes the shadow of other small-town melodramas, particularly “The Deer Hunter.”