His own motivations remain too vague for us to latch on to him. The film’s antihero, Jim Reed ( Tom Berenger) is more fleshed out, but he’s still rather flat. The villains are so expendable and dumb that they barely even register. More development of character, suspense and plot would have gone a long way toward making this stick to one’s crime genre-loving ribs.
If only “Blood and Money” weren’t stretched so thin.