In the Blood is a 2014 American action thriller film directed by John Stockwell and starring former fighter Gina Carano in her second lead role after 2011's Haywire.

In 2002, Ava, a 14-year-old girl from Bridgeport, Connecticut, wakes up in the middle of the night and sees her drug lord father murdered by two masked intruders, before grabbing a shotgun and gunning down the two assailants.

Twelve years later, after a rough life and recovering from drug and alcohol addiction, Ava marries the affluent Derek Grant in Arlington, the two having met while attending Narcotics Anonymous gatherings.

Meanwhile, Ava interrogates one man at the zip-line, threatening him that she will drop him straight into the forest if he doesn't confess Derek's whereabouts only to get busted by the cops.

When Ava asks again about her husband's whereabouts, Garza explains that Elbar made a mistake about handling Derek's broken bones and punctures his artery.

In the morning, Ava makes it to the hospital entrance and kills a female attendant with a chokehold before grabbing her ID and hiding her body in the vehicle.

Meanwhile, the group of men escorting David reaches the sugical floor to greet Elbar and Ava, who is disguised as a nurse going by the name Kristy.

At the operations room, Ava attempts to put Lugo to sleep before pulling out a gun and subduing all of his men, maiming most of them before getting Derek back on his feet.

Internationally, the film received a theatrical release in countries such as Vietnam, Kuwait, Singapore, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Ukraine, the Philippines and Japan while coming out direct-to-video in the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands and Germany and premiering on television in Spain.

[4] In The New York Times, Andy Webster also praised Gina Carano but lamented that she was "trapped in B-film depths", hoping that someone would "give her a better script and director".

[5] Writing for the New York Daily News however, Elizabeth Weitzman was more critical of Carano, stating that while "an undeniably impressive force" she was "not convincing" as an actress, but noted that the film had "a strong supporting cast, some pretty scenery and a taut mystery".