Whether he returns to the scene to get that money or solely to make sure he didn’t leave any traces leading back to him, Jim is soon in a mess: lugging the bag and his rifle through the snow while the four remaining, and very motivated, bank robbers try to catch him. He flees the scene, not realizing what he stumbled into until that night, when the woman’s picture appears in a news report about five thieves who took $1.2 million from a bank. She manages to get the words “you’re a fucking dead man” out before expiring, but Jim doesn’t connect the dots between that threat and the black duffel bag at her side. Given the millions of acres of unpopulated forest out here, Jim is rightly shocked when he shoots what he thinks is a buck and instead finds a woman dying on the ground.
Early on, a scene of him vomiting blood and passing out on the icy ground suggests he knows his days are numbered still, he seems in no hurry to go. Now in AA, he lives alone in a camper-top pickup and stalks deer through hunting season. A solid B movie whose pleasures aren’t diminished much by the screenplay’s dicey dialogue - plenty of the film has no dialogue at all - it’s a welcome vehicle for its star, who has been underused by filmmakers for decades.īerenger’s Jim Reed is a retired Marine whose family fell apart long ago when he killed his daughter in a drunk-driving accident. A snowbound bag-of-cash thriller set in the vast North Maine Woods, John Barr’s Blood and Money casts Tom Berenger as an ailing hunter trying to escape from bank robbers who want their money back.