Earth and Blood

Earth and Blood | Official Trailer | Netflix
Not a bad little thriller. Not great, mind you, but not bad.

Summary, with spoilers:
The movie opens with four bad guys with guns going into a police station to steal eight kilos of cocaine from the evidence lockup. It doesn't go well and several people of both sides end up dead. The leader gets away with the coke, but his plan to unload it apparently goes sideways, so he leaves his minivan (with the coke) with his half brother who is working at a sawmill.

Now thread of the story moves to the sawmill, where the old guy in charge is diagnosed with cancer. This news along with the fact that the business is struggling, prompts him to agree to sell the mill to a long time competitor. His daughter is a deaf-mute, though she does have a hearing aid. It's an old mill, dark and full of dangerous machinery, which makes the whole setting ominous.

Meanwhile a local drug king pin has found out about the robbery (it was on the news, which also mentioned the eight kilos of coke). He wants to get his hands on it and he has no qualms about torturing and killing anyone who gets in his way. Eight kilos of coke is worth about $250,000 wholesale, so if he can get his hands on it, he stands to make some money. After all, he didn't have to pay the wholesaler. On the other hand, maybe it was his coke that the police grabbed and he just wants it back.

Back at the sawmill, the old guy discovers the coke, sends everyone home, and just about then the bad guys show up. Mayhem ensues. The old guys does a good impression of Clint Eastwood. Both sides make some smart moves and some stupid ones. There is one scene where the bad guys are shooting up one of the buildings using AK's. The young guys are letter loose streams of bullets. The king pin is deliberately shooting one bullet at a time. Makes me think he may have been a soldier and was conserving his ammo. Or maybe his gun wasn't a fully automatic, which makes me wonder if a semi-automatic AK-47 is something you would only find in the USA. I mean, guns are basically illegal in most of the rest of world. The semi-auto distinction is something that came to be in the USA with advent of the National Firearms Act of 1934.

On Netflix, in French with English subtitles.