I Care a Lot reviewed by Mark Kermode
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- Опубліковано 18 лют 2021
- Mark Kermode reviews I Care a Lot. A legal guardian who swindles the savings out of her elderly wards finds her plans begin to unravel when she tries to con a woman with dangerous connections.
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This could have been a classic if the protagonist had lost some fingers, her mother, her girlfriend, her home, her money, her profession, etc etc, you know, due to some REAL Russian Mafia exploits. But no, she just wins and wins and wins and keeps on winning throughout. I haven't been this angry or dissatisfied watching a movie since Rosewood!
BIG agree Lambro.
She doesn't win in the end..
@@lamusica1592 The ending was nowhere near satisfying enough
@@lambro3001 I know what you're saying, I wanted more justice delivered to the cons but not all movies give that
@@lamusica1592 she kinda did coz she was never exposed. the poor guy who shot her probably got sent to jail
The movie gives you no one to root for...continuously gives the main villain unrealistic easy outs to major obstacles....and you stop caring about the story being told and literally spend 1.5 hrs wishing she had died 1.5 hrs ago
I rooted for her.
@@Ronariverah that’s one way to go
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@@Ronariverah So you are a horrible person? OR just have horrible taste? Can't imagine "rooting" for a psychopath who literally is abusing elderly people.
Would you still be rooting if this happened to your family?
yea I couldn’t stand her, especially when she gave her fake smile at the end of conversations.
The first hour of this film isn’t the same story as the second. It switches tone completely and everything with rescuing Jennifer becomes irrelevant & never needed to happen. I thoroughly enjoyed the way it was going for the first hour and then it became awful.
Thank you thank you thank you I could not have said it better myself I was engrossed completely from the first part of the movie but the second part honestly after they tried to kill her completely infuriated me and was disgustingly irrelevant and illogical. the whole later half made no sense in at the end of the day I wish he would have cut her up until a little pieces and then I would have been happy because at the end of the day her company will outlive her and her death serve no purpose for the evil that she gave to those poor elderly
Completely agree. Suddenly a lowlife grifter decides to behave like James Bond and take on the Russian Mafia. It was ridiculous.
Exactly. It really could've been something Beautiful like wtf🥺
It really makes me wonder what kind of sick & deranged people make movies now, to literally portray the main villain as some kind of james bond superhero and to constantly find excuses and rationales for their criminal behavior. Gross. I remember reading a couple of years ago that the male power fantasy is to be a hero and do the right thing while the female power fantasy is to be a villain and get away with it, but I never actually believed it was true until watching this film.
Totally agree! Once it becomes clear that we're suppose to be routing for Pike's character it lost me completely. They all needed killing off
I don't think I ever watched a movie that made me this angry. Just the thought of these people preying on the elderly & stealing all the assets & freedom, was sickening.
Totally agree
That’s life
Same with me. Was disgusted at the beginning and it continued to the very end. I guess it’s a good film since it elicited a strong emotion from me? Not sure...
Then the movie did its job to a tee.
@come on eileen It gets super preachy at the beginning. I almost stopped watching it as well. Hahaha. But I wanted to see her get some then get hers. Then, knowing that she was just as bad if not worse as Peter was... Glad I stayed. The last 30 mins weren't needed though, or they could've gone another 30 mins to close out Peter.
This film treats the viewer like an idiot expecting you to swallow whatever cliche’ it decides to throw at the wall next. Horrendous.
Incorrect - I was rooting for Dinklage to murder Pike from 2 minutes in
I agree lol
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SPOILER: I was so pissed that Marla kept escaping death. I don't think I ever wanted a character dead as much as her and the way the Russians kept trying to kill her in ways where she could escape rather than just giving her a bullet to the head infuriated me. That along with how literally no one Marla knew suffered any long-term consequences just made me write off the rest of the movie completely. If it hadn't been for the first guy killing her at the end, I think I would have ended my Netflix subscription right then and there. And her death wasn't even that satisfying; it was more like relief than anything.
I don't like that they watered down the mafia or whatever group they are. Two failed attempts from hitman?! Hmmm
Surprised at the positive review. I thought this was a waste of time, and frankly it makes me angry the more I think about it. Pike was good doing her Gone Girl thing, but in a movie that didn't seem to know what it wanted to be. Neither deep enough to be a striking satire, nor well thought out enough to be a fun thriller. Also, the mean-spirited central premise just makes this not so fun as it is. And the moment we got the inept henchmen ("because PLOT"), I knew this was a bust.
I found it entertaining but I wouldn't go so far as to say I "liked" it. I was confused by what the narrative expects the viewer to feel, if I'm supposed to be tricked into "rooting for the villain" as you would with some films like Natural Born Killers, but I never felt any sort of sympathy for Marla. I genuinely wanted her to die a horrible death. The ending feels empty. And I felt that the mistakes made by Dinklage's gangsters weren't credible; the only confirmed relationship Marla has with anyone in the world is Frances, but while they threatened Marla's mother without knowing the status of their relationship, they didn't see fit to inform her that they had done anything to Frances or make threats against her, when her girlfriend would have been the most obvious source of motivation. Roman also didn't go to any pains to torture Marla, despite having boasted of having cut off a woman's fingers with a bread knife. That probably would have worked too, why not try that?
Two hours I'll never get back. Even the "justice" at the end wasn't satisfying as the guy's mother had to die to prompt any kind of reckoning. Good acting - failed script.
Totally agree
Agreed, I've never been so disgusted while watching a movie.
She had built the “machine” of her scam company with the mob boss, Her life didn’t even matter at that point since more elderly will be screwed regardless. I felt disgusted at the end as well. Good film for drawing out emotion I guess.
It wasn’t supposed to be satisfying, there’s never any reckoning for people like her
Tasers and that powerful, he wouldve fought
Oh Mark, what are you doing? The first third of this film is an interesting, black comedy set up but it then turns into an unredeemable, unbelievable mess.
Could have been far better if we weren’t brow beaten into despising her throughout the first half. Had the cruelty of her scam revealed itself slowly it would have been far more interesting and that really would have played with our loyalties.
There is an exact moment when I lost interest in this movie. A man comes in and threatens the guardian (Rosamund) and then ends up offering 150,000 in cash. He ups it to $300,000 and she turns it down. To me, this made no sense. She is turning down a $300,000 windfall knowing that she has also put herself, potentially, in great physical danger. I suppose you could say that greedy people do things like that. But, it is just so dumb. I just couldn't believe it would happen in real life.
She wanted 5 mill then 10 mill when for 10 thousand or less you can get a hit. Also what is the motivation for making marla's death organic? He could have just shot her and no Gaudianship business that continues her evil work and inspires other guardian robbers.
I think their rationale for this (according to some of their interviews) was that Marla’s character takes no shit from men, because apparently those threats are just empty threats. I agree that it made no sense for her to turn down those offers, because seeing as she’s smart enough (the hustle), she should’ve known that it’d probably be risky.
She had diamonds worth MILLIONS and didn't take that lawyer seriously. She had already been threatened before with no action taken so she was used to meaningless death threats. These issues are actually answered in the film itself. It doesn't make the film a masterpiece by any means
Good thing it’s a film then lol
Utterly disagree with Mark on his overall take on the film.
Spectacular performances, without a bum note, and there are some great scenes, but the film takes a nose-dive and suddenly turns the despicable leads into heroes after that utterly ridiculous escape sequence at the midpoint scene where Pike and Dinklage meet.
After that it feels like the film wants us to forget that it spent the first 30 minutes making us hate Rosamund Pike and her Girlfriend utterly, and despite him being a mobster, we actively have far more sympathy for Dinklage. Making the ending feel utterly unearned, and the final resolution feel perfunctory rather than inevitable.
If only the setup carried through the rest of the film.
Great actors and performances wasted on an interesting concept with a rambling pointless plot. Was like watching a bodybuilder in a boxing match, started off really strong and ran out of gas by the end of the first round and limped to an unsatisfactory and disappointed wet fart of a conclusion. If not for the actors elevating this movie I would never have finished.
Sadly, financial abuse happens A lot to the elderly and vulnerable. Not necessarily on this scale. I'm gonna watch because I like Peter Dinklage and I suspect his delivery of this role will be very gratifying.
He's probably the best part of the movie. Other than being completely incompetent and failing as a mob boss.
He's as intelligent as s8 Tyrion Lannister.
Thank Lordy she died at the end. There was really no one to root for except the guy who killed her and maybe the Russian Mom
Spoiler!!
the timing of this with the Britney Spears Documentary is quite ironic
yes, I was thinking that.
Just finished watching this. What Mark seems to consider a strength, I felt was the film's weakness. There is nobody to root for (except, maybe DIanne Wiest) and I didn't know what I was supposed to be feel. As a result; I just found the penultimate act (from the pount where Marla and Roman meet, until their agreement) silly.
I rooted for the guy at the end.
“It’s a little shallow...” What an absolute APOLOGIST review again by Commode when it comes to English talent/directors. Terrible review.
*Kermode
I so badly wanted Marla to lose. After the car/lake scene it lost steam for me. The montage ending felt tossed together but the re-emergence of "beard guy" was the saving grace.
She and her girlfriend got off far too lightley. They deserved the "proper" mafia treatment (Dinklage's character was evidently just a daycare manager).
I shut it off right after the scene where she breaks out of her car while it's under water. That's when it "Jumped the Shark" for me. Really crappy movie.
I started to skip the movie and just saw the ending after that scene. Really hated the movie
God your lucky you didn’t have to deal with the rest of the film
the plot reminds me of Tyler Perry's A Fall from Grace
Rosemund is a great actress she just need better roles. Every good role that anyone offers her she nails.
Definitely needs a better agent. She is an excellent actress, I recently watched A Private War which she was excellent in.
This was a masterpiece role though
It was interesting in the beginning ...but yeah how just two random girls takes the russian mob like that and how is the villain was just ok with her later
Besides the story and screenplay..I just want to say one thing every strongly and honestly that Rosemund Pike is a brilliant actress and she just nailed the character of Marla, period!!!!
What an actress , my god!
I thought she walked through this role.
Her roles is amazing but half in the movie is just garbage ...she is great but this movie was not
Great acting... Failed script🙄
'The Disappearance of Alice Creed' is an underrated gem of a film.
I hated how she justified hurting the elderly as the american dream, like no you're making nightmares also the mother should have been the one to shot marla not the man at the end. Marla put the mother through torture and mafia boss is cool with that. Look at how the mother looks tired she would have died from the brutal routine. worst part is that the mafia boss would have fenced the diamond instead of keeping it in the bank for nothing. The mafia makes what that diamond cost from trafficking and selling drugs in a business quarter so nothing was worth holding back. Russian mafia would have blackmailed/bribed the doctor to simply say the mother recovered.
Ye a lot of things didnt add up in this movie. Many ideas could have worked, if they had been worked out on their own. But not mixed like that. You wanna do critique of the American dream? Then go ahead and make a point about it. You want a heist like cat and mouse movie? Or a mafia thriller? Maybe it wouldnt have taken much to make all the different aspects stick together, but they didnt have it.
In short, this film is an ode to predatory capitalism. An excellent action crime thriller that left a bad taste in my mouth...
Absolutely ridiculous movie with a false premise of a good cinema.
A very well acted trash fire.
Blockbuster VHS bargain-bin script, I came here expecting to see Mark give this film a kicking and instead he actually makes it sound watchable. Terrible terrible film.
Not sure I watched the same film as Mark here
Really enjoyed your review, sharp and accurate
I told my GF who did not watch the trailer it was a dark comedy. After watching neither of us laughed. So I showed her the trailer thinking to myself "I know the trailer made it seem like a dark comedy" after watching it she agreed that the trailer made it seem like a dark comedy!
Just watched the film, it reminds me a lot of Layer Cake such as the start, the villian and the ending... Would be interested in your thoughts....
Please tell me this is about Faith No More
For this "scheme" to work a large number of people (doctors, judges, rest home workers, relatives) needed to be either very evil or very stupid, ignoring the plight of a large number of old people (judging by the photos on the wall) over years and years. And played as a lark. This just made the script seem really really dumb and annoying. I googled to check the ending and then stopped watching.
Any good lawyer could put together a massive lawsuit against everyone involved in about 3 minutes. Her embezzling is so obvious and so poorly hidden that you could discover the stolen funds with virtually no leg work and then sue Marla, the county, and the hospital for millions.
What does the "15" in front of Amazon mean?
This movie has the most incompetent mafia boss in cinema.
"i care a lot" and "uncut gems" are everything you need to know about american ideology.
Pike is so talented in all her roles , i never watched a movie with her and get bored ...even Inland Empire ^^
This film is exactly how you don't make a villain. There was so little purpose in angering the audience.
There was no good opposing force, and was too much of an emphasis on her (there is a reason Delores Umbridge worked so freaking well in Harry Potter). And it almost felt like they were trying to make people empathetic towards her but this wasnt a Thanos or anything. And it wasnt a Joker where you are meant to get angered for a purpose. It was just there to show how much of a powerhouse Rosamund Pike is (which she definitely is).
If you want a better understanding of the film's potential and where it fell apart, there is this great video perspective I found in case you wanted it: ua-cam.com/video/ii4moC5kXhs/v-deo.html.
Hmm, interesting how Mark finds Wolf of Wall Street very mean but this movie was ok?
Honestly, for the first hour, I really liked this film Pike is fantastic in this role and Dinkledge was great as the mob boss. When it was just about someone preying on the elderly, it was heavily enjoyable and at it's most intriguing, I personally know someone who was taken advantage of by their own carer, and this really hammered home the cynical message. I personally also think the cinematography was also really well done with each shot feeling well placed. But after the hilarious attempted escape from the care facility and the failed murder, it just lost me. It went from being a entertainingly dark and psychotic story to being a generic mob thriller, and the character also kind of infuriated me, I liked how cartoonishly cruel she was but I got insensed when the film almost makes you want to root for her. But it ended in a mostly satisfying way. Just a shame she couldn't have died from drowning.
So what was Dinklages characters plan if he indeed succeeded in killing Marla? Which was a cool way to kill someone that failed miserably. So say he did indeed kill Marla how was he going to get his Mom now? He failed to get her out of a low level security nursing home. So there was no way he was getting her out of a higher security facility.
His mother would have been assigned a new guardian, someone less psychopathic and more open to intimidation or bribery.
I love Rosemund Pike, but hated this film.
The first twenty minutes had the feel of Thank You for Smoking (scabrous wit and all), before shifting into inept thriller mode. The tonal shift is problem number one: it really doesn’t work. Later the film attempts something like a Gone Girl-type move. But, again, it is unconvincing and ineptly handled. Gone Girl is a masterclass in plotting and construction. This is not.
The second issue is that the film is littered with objectionable idiocy. In the middle third, every decision taken by every character is insufferably stupid. And it has to be, just to keep the characters in the game. Just to keep the plot moving forward.
Finally, every character is irredeemably loathsome. Which is an achievement, of sorts. I love memorable antiheroes, but the secret therein is that the character must be well drawn. These characters were anything but. These characters have the collective depth of a puddle. Consequently, relationships are unbelievable, decisions unconvincing, and character arcs non-existent. The fact that there is a real scandal unfolding in the US around the appointment of guardians left a final icky taste in the mouth. It’s still early in the year, but this is my worst film so far. Loathed it.
An anti-hero, in my opinion, is someone doing some bad things for a good reason, or making right by doing wrong. There should be a somewhat noble intent, I guess. Marla had no intent other than to victimize elderly for her own gain. She was completely deceptive. I find the Peter Dinklage character far less objectionable, he wasn't pretending to be anything other than what he was. Plus, I think he actually cared about his mom.
Was I supposed to care about the horrible main character? I DON ‘T Care a lot for this film at all.
No. You weren't supposed to care about that horrible bitch.
This movie was only about the first 30 MINUTES. She, her team and cohorts are serial killers operating legally inplain sight. They are getting rid of the elderly while making mula for courts, nursing homes, hospitals, doctors, pharmaceutical companies, funeral homes, real estate etc. It also led on that they cheat families out of inheritance.🤷this the scariest movie I've seen in a while maybe I don't watch enough tv but DAMN this movie is cold👀🤢
As much as I enjoyed the performances of I care a lot, I couldn’t help but think of film Layer Cake.
Even the opening and closing scenes of the film were almost the same, take a look at Layer Cake’s FCUK store scene and the steps of the country club.
I still can’t believe they haven’t hooked Mark up with a better cam + mic 😅
I bet they have and it's in a box somewhere because he can't figure out how to connect it to the wi-fi/Bluetooth LoL
This film was truly horrifying. Either we die or age (and then die) and not being able to care for ourselves anymore amidst vultures trying to leach off us is a very real and scary prospect. Even family can take advantage.
This was execrable. Kermode gave this a generally good review; he also liked The Midnight Sky (probably one of the most disappointing films of the past decade). He has totally lost it. Used to be able to at least get a feel if something was utter muck, but even faint praise for either of those films is not useful.
I’ve disliked movies before but never hated and I HATED this.
Like many other commenters I thought this film was utterly crap and really can't see why it got such high praise. Predictable to the last, tons of plotholes and Pike's character (and her cohorts) are so hammy and pantomime I couldn't suspend my disbelief from the get-go, which doesn't make them scary, it just makes them silly. (I half expected them to do the toast the villains make in The Simpson's 'McBain' movies : "Ladies and gentlemen- to evil!"). And given their evil enterprise has some roots in reality, this felt crass and a wasted opportunity.
The ending was exactly like Layer Cake
shockingly good
I really liked this!
Hi can you please watch Drishyam 2 on Amazon Prime please.
Showed great promise at the start, then became predictable. It’s true you don’t know who to root for except perhaps the old lady, although she appears well capable of looking after herself. Dinker did his usual sinister routine and Marla was interesting to watch for a while. The ending was so predictable. Big yawn.
This could have been a great film. Good premise but everyone in it is so utterly detestable that by the end, I didn’t care at all.
👏👏👏
It was basically a TV Movie, the first 30 minutes made it seem very promising and during that first 30 minutes i was glued to the screen, then it all went down hill and it turned into an utter joke.
Well said, my thoughts exactly. I thought it was going to be great.
Don't people get that you're supposed to hate her
A lot of very angry, not so intelligent (Mainly) men don't seem to get that 😂
I mean Rosamund Pike was pretty clear in all her promo interviews, her character is one of a number of villains. The movie is purposely set up that way so the viewer understands they are all despicable
does anyone else think the ending is exactly the same as Layer Cake with Daniel Craig from 2004?
Thought exactly the same thing. And not just the ending but the entire film if you think about it. Made me think of just how much of a better film layer cake is to this
i only thing i didnt understand was why they didnt just kidnap her soon as she refused the money?
I enjoyed the movie but I found it took several key elements from the plot of Layer Cake, especially the final scene.
I watched the first 15mins and was horrified by the cruelty portrayed. Then I fast forwarded to see if rosamund pike's character gets her comeuppance. She does, but not really. From what I saw it appeared that they were making light of torturing the elderly. With the moral of if you torture the elderly you can probably get away with it relatively painlessly. I can't imagine why anyone would want to be in this film. I found it very disturbing.
And there's a character at the beginning who truly loves his mother and is genuinely suffering at the abuses a loved one is experiencing, and the film just couldn't care less. The movie just hated him and his mother and wanted to punish them for no apparent reason. I couldn't understand that. From what I saw this film had zero compassion. I admit I didn't see much of it but it truly sickened me.
how her gf bled out that much but didn't die or end up hospitalised etc and also they just left her??
From what I have read and then watched 75% of people hated 75% of the film including me ,so stupid in the last third of the film I started off hating her then hating all the cast then just plain hating the whole film even a hour after watching it I wanted to put everyone involved in a home and throw away the key 😂
Very good film. 8\10
I was very excited about this film leading up to the release, especially after watching Gone Girl again recently. My thoughts are - Very good performances throughout most notably from Rosamund Pike as always, but from the first minute that we are introduced to Marla as well as the supporting characters I had already decided that I disliked the film, and the moment I could have easily turned off was after that lake scene. If the film hadn’t ended the way it did then it would have angered me, but it still wasn’t enough “justice” for me to feel that “justice” had been served for such a despicable and horrible character. Very disappointing for me, and from what other people have commented I largely share their thoughts.
I enjoyed the movie, kept my interest throughout but i was so angry beginning to end. I didn't root for rosamund pike once, when the gangsters turned up i was so happy, but these gangster were watered down and that kinda made the rest of the predictable. I predicted the ending so accurately and wasn't shocked or surprised by the ending, but i wasn't satisfied.
This was set up brilliantly for a fascinating battle between the corrupt use of the pen of state care against the sword of good old-fashioned organised violence. As soon as the comedy goons arrived eliminating all sense of tension and jeopardy the film fell apart faster than a polystyrene zimmer frame. Enjoyable ????????? Get a jigsaw out, have a nap, clean your dentures, do anything but watch this pile of ‘generic’
I think someone hates public guardians and trustees and I don't blame them.
Are we supposed to believe that two rather regular people can escape death from professional hitman and take down a mafia boss on their own?
Suspension of disbelief can go only go so far.
Problems of this movie:
1- We're supposed to root for the protagonist (who is totally unlikeable)
2- She doesn't deal with any of the consecuences for her actions (the ending doesm't count)
3- The movie completely changes its tone during the third act
Should have been a series.
What a hideous movie.Who was also annoyed with the daft and clueless judge who kept on granting guardianship?
Sadly those judges are not entirely fictional, there is an episode of Dirty Money on Netflix called 'Guardians, Inc', it's pretty interesting / horrible.
This was a promising plot but the script went all over the place. The wanted to surprise us and create suspense but it didn't fly
Rose Pike and Peter are the only thing that saved the movie in the end
This movie is enormously cathartic for those who have lost their loved ones to such inhumanity against anyone. It can happen to anyone. The main character got off too easy, imho. Waaaaaay too easy to be held as example to stop the problem for the millions of, mostly women, older and/or disabled ppl who never regain their lives. Think about it: a living death; a murder, especially older people, who don't have enough time left, even if they escape, to rebuild what was stolen. Ya, she gets killed at the end but knowing she was loved. In real life, they are despised for the manipulative, murderous freaks that they are. That is how "Marla" should have died; as nothing more than that and let the legal system catch up to them all for what they have done. I know someone it happened to & it deserves more - MUCH more - than even this masterpiece of a heartfelt movie has gifted to society.
does rosamund pike's character and peter dinklage's characters end up getting married at the end ?
The diamond splitting scene is definitely framed that way. The film pretty much highlights that they're getting married in a figurative sense.
Can’t lie, the first 30 minutes of this film I was contemplating turning it off because it was extremely hard to realize stuff like that actually happens. Definitely not worth the 1hr and 50 min to see the karma
This has happened to several autistic people that were able to live on their own. My grandmother was one of them. Had their memory wiped clean through drugs and electroshock so stopped fighting to get out of the ward. They no longer remembered who they were... my gran had two kids she was raising just fine, she just had a breakdown after a major life change. But it was a life sentence for her.
I think the movie would have been better received had they at least tried to make Dinklage a little more likeable. The minute we meet him his employee is scared to death literally for something he did not have any control over. So we get the (boss is mean and will kill his goons cliche). You can have a villain and still make him a little likeable. To root for him to get his mom back. At a certain point in the movie you simply do not care if he gets her back.
Really enjoyed the film, the writing worked for me because I hated everyone in it!
mark wingett as dude in photo there,alan levit,hes a legend,this sounds rotten tho
Loved this film. So many comments people want to root for someone, why? Loved the twists and punches. Not a classic but a great watch. I am sure stuff like this happens to a degree out there.
I liked the movie and I agree 100%
Oh! Hi!, BTW This is not a movie, it's a documentary and is really happening in Las Vegas, Nevada by the Nevada Guardians Services LLC....They even take property owned jointly by non wards in violation of the 14th amendment, without a fair hearing.... Don't retire in Vegas! Horror story after horror story! Truth and Love! Peace!
Basically someone watched Layer Cake and completely misunderstood what made that film great
I LOVED the performances, i HATED the script.
Spoilers in comments watch out
It’s amazing how this movie gets people to hate a character who mostly takes advantage of a loophole within the legal system and doesn’t hurt anyone physically beyond using a taser more than the actual mafia who kills people and engages in human trafficking! That’s why i thought it’s a brilliant dark humored satire that perfectly shines light on the morality of people. Usually society tends to forgive immoral actions when they’re done within the legal system, but condemns criminal activity. This just shows just because someone uses the given legal system that it doesn’t make you a good or morally right person. Also the ending isn’t good because it satisfies the people who despised her, but because it makes her human. She lost what she cared about most. Herself! They could have also made her Wife die to do that, cause even though she was a cunning and reckless person, even people like that love or are loved! I loved it and it was very viciously funny!
I think it might have worked better if more time was spent on showing a bit of Marla's backstory and what made her as cruel; as the script stands now, her character borders on farcical
I think the character of Marla Grayson is too much of a Mary Sue figure. Sure she has one tiny flaw, she is overzealous, but that flaw simply means nothing sense she survives an astounding escape from death. I felt like I was watching the future Black Widow movie if Natasha Romanova was a businesswoman instead.
What an utter load of rubbish. Probably the worst film I’ve ever watched.
@@Kwippy - It might as well be. What is this woman, superwoman? Not realistic at all.
You haven't watched enough movies.
dope movie
I can look passed a few holes in a movie...but not on this scale. Terrible. Save your time and don't watch it.
I actually loved this movie. They didn’t decide to make it a happy movie which was interesting to me