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A watchable French drug thriller with the same old script than other B-movies. The acting is correct but not remarkable. Also, there are a lot of plot holes and weird decisions by the characters. Why? To add, I'm not sure why this kind of action B-movies are not more risky, and add at least an original ending or some interesting scripts. So, overall watchable B-movie but really far from great. I recommend to go for Lion the Professional to watch a good French action movie.

Drugs,brothers,gang,shooting,selling business. A lot of things were happening but everything was so bland and not tasty to watch. Very cheap movie. It tried to compensate by intense music and some kind of horror elements(like cutting hand or unscrew the head) but it didn't help at all. It didn't entertain me at all. I wouldn't recommend to watch this movie because it's useless.

No attempt at character development. RAMBO type film, with very basic action of gunshots. I dont know what else to say. Was quite boring and gave up after persisting 1 hour, Netflix should be more careful how they spend their money.

No pun intended. And maybe if the lead character wasn't so charismatic, the movie would not have struck as much with me as it did. So I see everyone voting lower and I understand. This is not a great thriller, it is more than decent though and even if there are cliches being served, we get suspense and edge of the seat entertainment.

It does what it says on the box and the last third of the movie is quite the payout for what we saw before that and all the silence or rather slow moving story for the most part. Violence is not always the solution, but this is a movie and it does what it has to - or rather our main man does. Is it enough though?

Too damn dark, felt like I was watching a movie through a dirty periscope or apartment peephole. I understand what the director was trying to do but it was horribly executed.

I don't know why the rating (5) is so low. And I'm not sure why people complain it's dark. Maybe the dubbed Netflix version is, but I saw the original French-language one so maybe something was lost in the dubbing? To me, the weakest part was the acting, or should I say, over-acting of the daughter. Then again, she is deaf and all that crazy nonsense was going on around her. I suppose if I was deaf I'd be a freaked out mess, too. Yeah, there were some implausible decisions made, but the film wasn't slow-paced like others have stated. In fact, it moved along at a nice brisk pace. Recommended.

This a very good movie, with it's tense moments and some bloody scenes.

Acting is good, setting in the old sawmill is perfect for the story and is used very well.

Relax and see it on Netflix when you are into thriller, action movies.

One of the worse movie ever, very bad story very bad acting, practically nothing in the movie. What a waste of time. To add to this very bad acting.

Is it worth a ten? Nope, but not far from it either. The ten is to counter the few dozen illiterates before me. What Hollywood used to do in the seventies has apparently been picked up by the french. What might that be, you wonder? Well, how about strong genre flicks also known as B-movies. Good acting mixed with lesser, bombastic score and blood splatter. And most importantly, the strong silent lead character who saves the day. Not many of those around any more, are there? Once again France has proven that feature films are not dead. Vive la France! Watch and enjoy.

Earth And Blood: French gangster film. A gang steal back heroin from a police station but then try to cheat their boss. A sawmill owner becomes involved in the resulting mess. Some convincing action scenes in the police station, in a forest and in the sawmill. Sami Bouajila plays Said the ordinary man who fights back. Nothing particularly original but it's a competent thriller which keeps the tension going. Directed and co-written by Julien Leclercq. 7/10. On Netflix.

I did not like it. Incredibly boring and very predictable story. Pass on this one and watch something else.

The main character carried the whole movie quite well but nothing special. There was literally a little less conversation and more action - French style. :) The picture is very dark.

There's nothing, absolutely nothing, here that you haven't seen before. It's OK for what it tries to be, but that's not enough. And pretty much the whole thing is hard to see because the director shot it with the least possible light. Watch something else.

Terrible Movie ... You can watch it if you have nothing to do sbut if you want to see a good movie , please don't watch this ... An old story which made many times before . The movie is very dark so sometimes i felt like actors blurred while I watched it on AMOLED screen Really Baaad

French actress Sofia LaSaffre plays a deaf character named Sarah and plays one well, although she isn't in real life which makes her an amazing actress. In this movie, Sarah's father, Saïd, owns a sawmill deep in the woods and he decides to sell it, but little does he know that one of his apprentices, Yanis, played by the wonderful Samy Seghir, had been forced by his brother to hide a large amount of cocaine inside the factory. French actor Eriq Ebouney plays a rough and tough drug dealer. This film is in French with English subtitles and is a well-worth edge of your seat watching. Such a great French action film.

Earth and blood was a very weak watch to me,i didnt found any character to be interesting or to be at very least fun to watch,all of them were completly out of personality and they felt like they dont belong in this kind of film,story and its moving was also very slow and i found most of scenes to be tiresome and just to unimportant for this type of subject,dialogue was also very poorly written and it didnt catched my focus for more then 2 seconds,which is big flaw since films expecely foreign ones get tough regognition and films like this just put a bad name on them,earth and blood was a french film that is just very forgettable watch

Efficient B series which goes straight to the point and does not bother with unnecessary digressions, the French director (Julien Leclercq) returns with this action movie to a rural western but via Netflix.

Let's admit... Earth and blood is not a "big film" but a decent B series which ensures a constant spectacle and which keeps the spectator alert throughout its 1 hour and 20 minutes.

The plot is very simple: a guy who has little to lose will defend what he has left, namely his daughter and his moral values, against the assault of gangsters who come armed to the teeth to recover a bag full of drugs.

Sami Bouajila has the potential of the job to shine in genre cinema and the talent to give substance to characters however archetypal. And facing him, Eriq Ebouaney brings all his charisma to an implacable and cruel bad guy.

The dialogues clearly play on the economy, the cutting is sharp and the director takes care of his staging without necessarily seeking the beautiful image. He willingly summons a certain imagery of the western which fits into his story.

Basically, the film finds its identity as a rural western with big touches of country survival and siege film. As a matter of fact, there's an old tradition of French genre cinema that Eric Valette had unearthed with Le Serpent aux mille coupures. Here and there one would think of Total Western, Canicule or La Traque.

When the hunt takes place, the action becomes more and more present and the suspense settles permanently. There are sequences of chases in the forest of a rather ectic energy, sequences worthy of an undercover thriller in which the decor is largely involved, short shootings but still effective and well constructed, and even some scenes which leave a good place for savagery or even gore (in the sawmill).

Little room for nuance in this movie, with the good guys on the one side going to run up against the bad guys who attack them, but isn't that all that is asked with this kind of production: Efficiency and little small talk! Even if one can sometimes regret a somewhat dull photograph, seeking to transcribe the greyness of the Ardennes.

Decent viewing if you just want to switch off your brain, but 'Earth and Blood' isn't anything good.

It's just so underdeveloped, there is little to no reason to care for any of the characters onscreen. We get pieces of backstory with a few of the protagonists, though the antagonists are completely plain and lack any creativity. I was never invested in this, unfortunately.

Sami Bouajila is, at least, good in the lead role. I've now seen three French language films and he has been in two of them; following on from the also underwhelming 'The Crew' from 2015, which is directed by Julien Leclercq too. I do like Bouajila. No-one else stands out, though I did enjoy Sofia Lesaffre as Sarah.

It has a few decent deaths, a solid lead and a couple of nice shots - though they could've used the Sawmill location to greater effect. However, disappointingly, it's a poor film all in all. It's a positive that it only runs for 80 minutes, but a bit longer could've helped it create some depth to the onscreen lot.

While browsing the action section on Netflix, I came across this new French action thriller. And also, given its not-so-long duration, I decided to stream it last night. It was an entertaining watch, although there's nothing groundbreaking or much memorable about it, to be honest. The action scenes are the best thing about this film and possibly the only reason I found it entertaining.

If you're looking for a masterpiece, it's not that. But if all you want is a decent action film with enough guns, blood, traps, chases and explosions: check this one out for sure. Performance wise, I found Sami Bouajila impressive, given this is his first film I've watched. I hope to check out more of his work. Technical aspects are neat and the tension built during the action is excellent. But the buildup to the nonstop action is somewhat tiring to an extent. Not boring at all, but just something that could've been done at a better pace. That's really a flaw given how it's already just an 80 minute film!

Nevertheless, Earth and Blood is a watchable action thriller with enough action and suspense to keep you hooked. The film certainly has its moments and mostly engages. Worth a one-time watch for sure.

This feature is in the tradition of French crime westerns taking place outside the suburbs or cities at night. You can think about: CANICULE, LA HORSE, TOTAL WESTERN, LES GRANDES GUEULES....; Maybe a little more about LA HORSE, the scheme of drug gangsters who want to get their stuff back from a farm or another place in the deep France. Yes, we can watch it as a western with Sami Bouajila in a character very close to the one he already had in BRAQUEURS, a poignant role, a man lost in advance. The supporting characters are not the best I have ever seen, and that's a shame. But that remains a gritty, bloody and brutal French crime flick. I enjoyed the body count game...And one more thing, this movie came out thanks to Netflix, with whom directors have total freedom, no matter R rating or under 16 bull sh....they have to suffer for theaters release. Julien Leclercq said in an interview that the found a golden vein with Netflix, and many more French genre movies directors too.

Action with a twist, really liked the the saw mill setting wish there were more machine deaths lol, the colours and also the sound were nice. Adding a deaf girl gave the film good tension which she acted well. Can you imagine being deaf and in a situation? I like that really cool idea. Anyway why give low votes for a crime film that made such a good effort by introducing something different? It's an action film what do you expect. Anyway the characters were good and I enjoyed it for what it is.