| Cold Blood | |
| Producer: | Olias Barco Corinne Benichou Oleg German Florence Moos |
| Cinematography: | Thierry Arbogast |
| Editing: | Viktor Onysko |
| Music: | Xavier Berthelot |
| Studio: | Screen Media Films |
| Distributor: | Universal Pictures |
| Runtime: | 95 minutes |
| Country: | France |
| Language: | English |
| Budget: | $2.7 Million[1] |
| Gross: | $1 Million[2] |
Cold Blood, also known as Cold Blood Legacy, is a 2019 action thriller film written and directed by and starring Jean Reno, Sarah Lind, Joe Anderson and Samantha Bond. It was released on 15 May 2019.[3]
Henry, a professional killer, has retired after his last assignment to a cabin in the middle of the frozen nowhere forest of Washington state, near the Canadian border. To disturb the silence of the nature that surrounds him comes a sinister thud when a snowmobile crashes nearby with a girl on board who is quite seriously injured. Henry takes her to safety from the wolves who are already smelling their prey having tasted her blood on the snow and begins to treat her with the few means he has at his disposal. He extracts several splinters of wood from her leg and after a few days an even more worrying one in her groin. Generally he doesn't save lives, however he couldn't leave that defenseless girl at the mercy of the elements and ravenous wolves, but something in her made him suspicious. Meanwhile, she didn't have a cell phone or even documents, so that name, Melody, that she gave her could be false, which is why as soon as she recovers she'll have to pick up her heels and leave the cabin. But the girl hides much more and Henry will discover it when she tries to kill him but is disarmed and blocked under a large fir stump. She can only confess her identity as the daughter of Henry's latest victim, a millionaire who, eager for a son, had always kept her aside, albeit in a sort of golden cotton wool. But Henry, after having saved and cared for her, cannot kill her. In fact, now tired of that life as a lone wolf, he sacrifices himself for her by killing a hitman sent to her by her father's trustee who would have thus acquired all of her immense heritage. Henry kills him after a shootout in the forest where he specifically calls the police to be fatally shot in turn and take all the blame on himself, allowing the girl to leave the cabin with the officers and with a book that Henry left her with a dedication as a souvenir.
The film received generally negative reviews. Variety called Cold Blood "instantly forgettable",[5] The Observer named it a "boring thriller"[6] while The Hollywood Reporter said that despite the film featuring a "a breathtaking snow-covered setting" and being "well shot", the "result is a film that’s as nonsensical as it is blandly put together".[7]