Maybe I am late to the party, but I just watched this last night with my wife on Netflix and it was very well done. It was basically the opposite of a John Wick type of movie. Nice change of pace.

Those "Lab of Madness" guys, mostly Jeremy Saulnier and Macon Blair, do good work. They've got a good feel for off-beat suspense dramas peppered with random sporadic acts of violence that spiral unpredictably out of control. Their hilarious earlier film Murder Party is available on Netflix, about a poor parking officer held captive by a bunch of flaky art students at an underground warehouse Halloween/art party.

Also available on Netflix from those guys are the films:

-Green Room where a bunch of punk rockers find themselves under attack by neo-Nazis in Oregon,

-Hold the Dark, with Jeffrey Wright investigating missing children who may or may not have been abducted by wolves in the Alaskan wilderness,

-and Macon Blair's own I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore, with Melanie Lynskey teaming up with her insane neighbor Elijah Wood to track down her items stolen in a burglary.

I've found all these films enjoyable. I dig their work.

Interesting, I didn’t know they did all those. I’ll have to check out the ones I haven’t seen. Green Room was really good.

Based on this thread, I watched it last night. It was very good. More realistic version of Joe Blow goes on a revenge spree.

Still some suspension of disbelief moments, but overall, well done.

It took me at least 30 minutes to convince myself I had seen blue ruin previously. That far in, I watched it twice. A day later, I pulled up Hold the Dark, got smart and hit fast forward. In less than two minutes, I knew I had seen it and bailed out. Then I moved on to The Green Room. It was fun to see the darker side of Pickard. At some point, I'll probably watch the other one mentioned.

Yes, Blue Ruin is a very well made and underrated film. I haven’t seen it since it came to DVD and forgot about it. I’ll have to watch it again.