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  Review by russman ★★★½

  I hope she has lizard abilities

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  Review by piiskoorprof ★★★½

  A small-scale pulpy wonder. With a sharp, tight script, generally very strong performances (with one unfortunate dissonant exception), and a confident style, Cold Blooded will please anyone looking for a return to the excellent B pictures of the '50s.

  A special shout for the performances at the heart of the thing: lead Zoie Palmer, as the good cop beset by bad luck, is understated and precise in her performance, complementing writer-director Lapeyre's disruption of old genre-gender conventions; Ryan Robbins, as the shifty, likable prisoner, and William MacDonald, as a helluva strong baddie, each center attention on subtle shadings that enrich the limited scope of the picture, which takes place largely in an abandoned hospital floor.

  There are a couple of nasty plot shifts that carry real weight, and yet the dialogue also--without showing off--had wit and a bit of humor.

  Very well done.

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  Review by Tim Corbeel ★★

  Pretty boring mediocre thriller with a predictable plot. 
  Wasn’t engaging, has some very unbelievable scenes and lacks tension. 
  Meh…

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  Review by Nicolas ★★★

  CAPSULE REVIEW: Perhaps not amazing but admirable, virtually unknown independent thriller that works splendidly thanks to having a very tight script, well rounded performances and a thoroughly interesting plot that isn't convoluted but convincingly multi-layered, at least at the beginning. I didn't particularly like director Jason Lapeyre's satiric followup "I Declare War", mostly because of its moronic and simplistic "insights" concerning power and violence but this is unpretentious from the pulpy outset. "Cold Blooded" starts to fall apart by the 60 minute mark and turns into a meandering violence fest that is perhaps not completely horrible but doesn't live up to its promising start. The movie itself is like a combination of a slick indie production and TV-movie aesthetics but focus on the former. This is definitely worth watching, and recommending.

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  Review by robyn ★★★½

  A thoroughly enjoyable cat and mouse film with just enough mystery to keep you guessing all the way through. It doesn't take itself too seriously, which is welcome as a film like this could have a tendency to be up its own ass.

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  Review by damosuzuki ★★★

  fun thriller.
  very nice to see a movie with a female lead fighting men where the movie doesn't pretend she can beat them up. she brutally gets her ass kicked when she tries.
  there's something that happens about 30m in that should make the lead dead. movies don't have to make complete sense, but she surely shouldn't be walking around after that.

  this is pretty good, but it's not so good that i needed to re-watch it. once is the right number of watches this needs.

  i definitely vastly overrated it last year in giving it 4 stars. i must have been shrooming when i did that.

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  Review by damosuzuki ★★★★

  very good! tightly plotted, well acted, very tough in spots. and for once, they don't make the female hero into some kind of superwoman capable of beating up men twice her size. she's smart and capable, but also clearly vulnerable and aware of that.

  a very pleasant surprise.

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  Review by AlitaMcFly ★★★½

  A well-made gory indie thriller that takes time to get started but once it gets rolling, it keeps you hooked. Ryan Robbins and Zoie Palmer are good and the villain is properly ruthless.

  65/100.

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  Review by Smapti ★★★½

  This is an excellent example of how to make a good low-budget movie: spend whatever money you have on a) good actors and b) a good script and the rest will probably work out.

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  Review by Mary Conti 2

  Film #4 of The December Challenge 2

  Cold Blooded is really strange to me. On the one hand, it is incredibly solid, well paced, and never boring. On the other hand there's not a lot to it, it's kind of silly, and I doubt it's gonna stay in my mind for much longer than a week.

  Much of this might have to do with the premise of the film, essentially Die Hard in a hospital meets Assault on Precinct 13. The main problem ultimately comes with the fact that a lot of elements of the film are given notice while others are passed over. Die Hard gets everything right by putting all the necessary elements in the same building and…

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  Review by cemeteryghoul ★★★★

  It starts off with a jewelry robbery of diamonds. Then something happens and someone ends up dead. The other thief ends up in the hospital. A female cop is assigned to watch him in case someone tries to kill him. They seem to get along well enough but she's really not romantically interested in him. Too bad for her because the thief was a decent human being deep down, just got mixed up with the wrong crowd. The female cop, however, is used to being alone I guess. That's what happens with enough loneliness. You get used to it. And little does she know that the thief's employer is coming for him to try and finish him off. The plot…

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  Review by Antonio Quintero ★★★

  SAW IT AT FANTASTIC FEST 2012

  A great low budget movie about cop that is trying to protect a criminal from his violent partners. This movie does not pull any punches and things get really violent in this movie.