Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

How sad is this?

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

This is a simple movie, yet very effective and original. With an ironic twist, it has a powerful message that will make you think. It is short and very watchable, and quite memorable. Highly recommended

The movie presents a realistic plot with realistic characters, saying realistic things, for such a plot. A completely incompetent, petty man vs the world. It's only deep if you try hard making it deep; otherwise it's just unimaginably bland. The only tension fueled by nigh-comedic awkwardness and violence. If you don't find awkwardness and embarrassment entertaining or enlightening (?!), if you don't like how it's used as a cheap substitute for proper drama, just skip it.

A brilliant title for a great film that develops a casual and contemporary noir plot in record time. Pure gender with very intense rhythm, original and atypical. Crude and cold though with small manifestations of black humor. It uses a well-known resource: the presence of the blue color in practically all shots, perhaps in a less poetic way than in Kieslowski's Trois couleurs: Bleu, but equally important for the message of its aesthetics, of its atmosphere. It found an interesting way to introduce the protagonist. A charming portrait of a hero who does not oppose the hectic succession of events. That does not deny its destiny. He accepts the events. The film boasts of a certain weakness by the criminal clumsiness, the amateur violence and the improvised revenge although very plausible. This movie works. And very well. You can bet on it. Anyway it is so fast that even if you do not like it will be over before you know it.

Forget everything you learned from Charlie Bronson in the "Death Wish" film series, as well as in countless of other low and big budgeted vigilante/revenge movies… Years and years' worth of sentiments of unprocessed hatred and rage do not make you invincible and certainly cannot prepare you to extract the perfect act of vengeance. When you're an average guy/girl, and fundamentally a good-hearted person, the urge for revenge will cause for you to make stupid mistakes, make you feel utmost miserable and is guaranteed to get you severely hurt or even killed! That is basically the main message/moral of Jeremy Saulnier's "Blue Ruin" and it's a downright fantastic accomplishment if I may say so! Never before I've witnessed a film that is so violent and suspenseful in terms of content, but simultaneously so saddening and melodramatic in terms of atmosphere. "Blue Ruin" is a very bizarre indie production, to say the least. Writer/director Saulnier raised the budget via crowd- funding, and even though he gathered the fairly admirable sum of approximately $1.000.000 it's still a very rudimentary and minimalist thriller with few characters, set-pieces, stunts or make-up effects. What it does feature, and plenty of it, is slow- brooding tension, in-depth character drawings, long but uncomfortable and thought-provoking silences and melancholy! Lots and lots of melancholy… Dwight lives like an unclean and unshaven hermit in his ramshackle old Pontiac car since many years. When he hears that the murderer of his parents is about to get released from prison, the only thought left in his head is killing him. He waits at the prison gates for Wade Cleland to get picked up by his family and grabs the first possibility he gets to stab him to death in a men's room. However, this wildly impulsive act was so amateurish that Dwight has now endangered the only family he still has; his sister and her children. The rest of the film masterfully illustrates how Dwight continues to sink deeper and deeper into a downward spiral linked caused by the complications of his urge for retaliation. With all its long periods of nothing really happening and the shortage of dialogues, "Blue Ruin" is actually a sort of meditation session. A meditation on violence, bathing in shades of blue and depicting the true human nature: vulnerable and dumb. As said, Saulnier definitely makes the most out of the few pieces of scenery and limited cast of characters that he has available. Dwight's Pontiac car, for example, is a very significant piece of scenery. It's old and decrepit and I was amazed every single time that it still drove, but indeed it is the best vehicle imaginable to fit our protagonist's persona. The supportive characters are astounding as well, like Dwight's nihilistic but surprisingly intelligent childhood friend Ben with his rather disturbing views on gun-ownership, or the entire Cleland family who are basically quite marginal but also admirably loyal. Last but certainly not least, I feel somewhat obligated to end this user-comment with a personal apology towards writer/director Jeremy Saulnier. When I watched his debut feature "Murder Party" several years ago, I really hated it. That is still okay, I guess, but I also impolitely described Mr. Saulnier as an untalented and uninspired amateur director who probably shouldn't quit his regular job in order to purchase his dream of becoming a famous horror director. Well, I have been wrong before many times in my life and don't have any problem whatsoever with admitting that I judged too soon. Based on the (much larger budgeted) "Green Room", but especially this truly excellent "Blue Ruin", I can safely say that I was wrong.