Big Biz arrives. He takes the knife from Ava and cuts the throat of the leader, killing him. He then tells Ava and her husband to leave the island and go home. Ava and her husband leave the island on a boat as the film ends. The film was shot in Puerto Rico from November 25 to December 26, 2012. Although portraying a 26-year-old, Gina Carano was actually 30 at the time. "In the Blood" premiered in the United States on April 4, 2014, through a limited theatrical release and video on demand before coming out on home video two months later. 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. Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes gave the film an approval rating of 37% based on 41 reviews and an average rating of 5/10. "Variety"'s Ben Kenigsberg called the film a "serviceable action vehicle", while on the other hand, Nick Schager in "The Village Voice" described it as a "subpar action movie", that is "grim" and "formulaic", while singling out Gina Carano’s "badass-beauty charm". 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". 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". Brian Tallerico from "RogerEbert.com" gave the film one star out of four, writing that the "film history is filled with xenophobic tales of pretty Americans who disappear in foreign lands and the pretty people tasked with finding them".