I Care a Lot (2021) Netflix Original Movie Review
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- Опубліковано 18 лют 2021
- Rosamund Pike, Peter Dinklage, Dianne Wiest, Eiza Gonzalez and Chris Messina star in the Netflix Original movie 'I Care a Lot.' Should this dark comedic thriller be on your watchlist? Thanks for checking out my review of I Care a Lot!
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My couch rating system:
5 - A must watch - do not pass this one up
4 - It's really good, you should see it
3 - It's OK - maybe good for a rental
2 - It's not that good and I wouldn't recommend it
1 - It's terrible and I definitely don't recommend it
0 - Cutting off a finger is better than watching this
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I hated the judge so much he was so biased and annoying smh
I know. My thoughts exactly; and when he's presented with someone that gives him a perspective from the senior person - someone who actually cares about the old people - his immediate response is to defer to this third-party who has a vested interest in keeping the people locked up. And to add insult to injury, he doesn't even speak to the person on whose life he's making a decision on. Infuriating, mainly because I know there are judges like this in reality.
True story in American. Such radicular.
Me too
I enjoyed the first part until they turned this lady into a trained super spy
Facts she took out the mob lol
Movie was unbelievable....I would root for a drug dealer before someone abusing elderly people....
In this case, me too!
Same here
💯
I'm only 34 minutes in and I'm mad/sad I wouldn't want anyone treating my grandmother or mom like this or heck myself when I'm older.
@@notsorespectfullyyours5263 exactly.....I immediately sided with the mafia....
Spoilers: The only thing I liked it about this movie it's when she was killed in the end.
Yeah, the ending saved it.
Yeah I saw the first 10 minutes hoping she would die so I skipped to the end and was satisfied... but I am planning on watching the whole thing
@@miahpapaya8821 well, don't waste your time..
I wish I layed on my stomach for 01:50h rather than watching this
Yes, I feel the same.
Anti-hero movies aint for you.
What bothered me most is that Fran should have died, cause she was breathing gas for several hours. I think her death could've add drama to the plot
Thank you, Said the same thing.
I agree. Her character was useless. They should have killed her off
The ending, well, it made me smile.
That girl made me so mad I turned it off early...Glad you said something, I feel better now. :)
Same. It made me like the movie
It made me yell "Fuck you!" to the movie because it was trying to manipulate me into feeling something for her and her asshole girlfriend. This movie is tonally retarded.
@@joshrider6822 I almost fast forwarded to where I thought she was gonna get tortured. I don't think I've ever wanted a main character to be killed. But still, that ending was so anticlimactic. Why couldn't the poor guy wear a mask, shoot them both and get away? Ugh
@@madsketcher This is the worse sorry excuse for a film I've ever suffered through. And the vape thingy was cringy!
There is a trend recently in cinema, be it shows or movies, to depict really despicable people and to somehow presume the viewer will sympathise and eventually root for them. I don't mind a good anti-hero movie when done right, but when a movie essentially is packed with despicable people on all sides, the viewer can't help but feel a sense of total apathy for all involved.
This apathy becomes apparent in a lot of confusing and unusual scenes, as if the writers just presumed outright that the viewer would happily go along for the ride and cheer on Rosamund Pike's despicable character. From the very beginning, we are somehow supposed to feel a sense of wonder as she stands her ground to the poor man whose mother he is prevented from seeing.
"I'm not afraid of you, you think I'm afraid just cause you have a dick?" she says, no doubt the writer's attempt to woo us with some sassy "girl power". We are somehow supposed to love-hate her now because we see she can somehow hold her own, whereas the man, the true victim, is depicted as some kind of inarticulate, oafish eunuch.
The writers then go into manipulation overdrive, dragging us along for this episode of Gone Girl: Retirement Edition in an attempt to continue to force us to feel some kind of empathy, perhaps pity, for these two dreadful women, especially when their world starts to close in on them. We are somehow supposed to feel concerned when her girlfriend is worried and later exposed to violence and possible death (which, predictably and unfortunately, never comes).
Of course, her death can only come in the very last scene (in a white dress, very subtle, really) because these movies love to subvert our expectations in much the same way those dreadful writers effectively ruined the last two seasons of Game of Thrones for all of posterity. Therefore, while no major character ever truly dies, and it is entirely predictable that she escapes from the car in the reservoir (a film device used so many times that it's now cliche), the ending is somehow supposed to surprise us. From the uncharacteristic deal she makes with her nemesis to her ultimate demise, a scene so lacking in catharsis that it barely packs a punch.
At last, we're left with an ending which farewells all subtlety, instead choosing to harass the viewer with endless platitudes about the dire state of capitalism, something we've had beaten into us from the beginning, only for it to continue in a more rapidly verbose and eyerolling way by the end.
If you hadn't heard for the 50th time, you're either a lion or a lamb. You either win or lose. Are you a lamb? Or will you choose to be the lion? Oh, me? I'm a lioness. A fucking lioness, no doubt. Because in this world, you can either be a predator or a prey. You therefore ought not to hate the player, but rather the game.
Cool story, bro.
Overall, I am rather unhappy that I wasted time on this very milquetoast Ohio version of Tom and Jerry.
I agree
Great analysis, would love to see your future reviews
Agreed but would be nicer with more simple English words
Exactly!!! I just finished watching it. I am a woman yet I am boiling with anger, this movie was good yet horrible and your review explains the why. Fantastic review!
Oh my fucking Gooodddd! yeeessss!!! I literally could not have articulated this better myself. The entire thing was very fucking upsetting and I lost interest after she miraculously woke up in her car before it crashed. Despite the infamous "twist" that people seem so fond of
I’ve never hated a main character so much
Spoiler Alert!
I watched the first third of the movie but it was getting really difficult to watch so I skipped to the last 2 minutes of the movie and was really mad until she got shot. I wished her partner got shot too but well... I still would have hated the movie.
Next time write down spoilers before writing down such comment.
Just an advice!
@@RK-si4ln done
@@RK-si4ln Trust us, they've done you a favor with this particular movie.
All UA-cam movie review videos are filled with spoilers of people ranting together. I don't read comments til after I watch a movie.
I was hoping for an ending with more substance. I waited the entire movie for a very mediocre ending 🙄
I thought she was going to get away with cunning elderly people. I was glad she got hers at the end
In short, this film is an ode to predatory capitalism. An excellent action crime thriller that left a bad taste in my mouth...
Yes, it seems like a lot people just don't really understand the movie message, which I find funny.
Movie was trash, with all kinds of unbelievable crap in it.
7/10... The first hour of this film is so good that it manages to carry the ridiculous implausibility of its second hour to a satisfactory conclusion. If it had not tried to become "Mission: Impossible" and stayed confined to the small-time grift of elderly care abuse, this would have been one of the best films of the year. However, like the characters in the film, the writer / director gets greedy, and pays for it.
Totally agree - the mob don't fuck around like that - they would have killed the family members of the people involved - chucked her and doctor and the care home manager into the back of the van - tortured them as a message - gone to court after all above issues were out of the way - and probably have threatened the judge indirectly pre hearing using links to the masonic lodges to let him know he is next and that would have been that - everything back to normal again!
They would have taken over her enterprise and either put their own person in charge and or replaced her with someone less offensive to them!
BEST CASE SCENARIO - They would have turned up to her home and said from this point on your paying us a % - and broken her best friends face Infront of her - to make matters even more funny they would prob have a couple of corrupt cops there to do the racketeering - so that she knows she has no one she could turn too - even then the mom would have been out for seconds
the mob are disgusting vile creatures and this movie gleefully and cruelly celebrates the already prominent mystique of its culture - shameful movie
Totally agree, the Russian mob would have threatened the care home director, hold the girlfriend hostage, gotten the mother out, killed everyone afterwards, and taken over the old folks scam.
Totally agree, The first hour of the movie was great, but then it was so ridiculous that I just stop watching. Without mention the Feminist Crap they trying to push down into our throat
Excellent comment. I agree.
@@slamcutube So true.
I thought in the end she would get the rug pulled out from underneath her by someone or Peter Dinklages character proving she's a grifter which would land her in prison, making her feel like the elderly people who she wronged in the past.
Dude ,when I heard this movie coming out, I jumped out of my seat, about a year ago I saw a documentary on this subject, the absolute horrific way these guardians totally alienate ,steal & drive these elders insane,😥they are capable , but even the so-called judges allow this to happen. Phenomenal movie, every actor /actress, words cannot express ,because I hated and yet I loved them all👍🏻 👍🏻bananas that this happens in real life✌🏻😷
Please show me the link of that documentary..
Watching it at the moment on netflix. I am soo pissed at how horrible and vicious Marla is l just couldn't wait for the film to end to find out if she got what was coming to her. Had to come here to find out lol. Was screaming at the tv " Just give him back his mum, Jeeeeeez😒"
Yes, that made, what was a clever character look stupid, she was gonna get 250k off one person and turns it down?
I'm SUPRISED they actually made a Movie with an ACTUAL Villainess. Usually when chicks are Villains, they're portrayed as either "Cute", "Sexy", or "Misunderstood".
She's ruthless...and right from the start, she tells us what she is. Rosamund Pike played her really well!
@@MoviesAndMunchies very very well
But she ain’t a villainess whatsoever. She is protrayed in the movie as ambitious, feminist and brave- but in reaity she is just a shit person, an awful human being.
Really this script... how the hell did someone gave it the green light?
@@RodrigoMenezesss but how does this show portray her as a feminist.. is every independent minded lesbian woman a feminist... and she did die in the end... what is worse than that.
Marla grayson reminds me of theranos(Elizabeth holmes)
Honest review with spoilers:
If your not gonna read the whole thing, read the last sentence.
If it was not for Rosamund Pike this would have been a disaster. She and Dinklage have a good dynamic centered around the grandma.
Here are some things that annoyed me about this film.
1. It's a Russian mafia film disguised with a frankly interesting premise.
2. The judge is being made out as an idiot with no brain. I get he's supposed to be mislead by Rosamund Pike, but no way hes that stupid.
3. The Russian taxi driver that is supposed to pick up the grandma is a hyperactive idiot. If we are talking about organized mafia here, no way he would be put in charge of retrieving the mother of the boss. But the plot needs him to be dumb, so he can start a ruckus at the old people home.
4. Why does he need to start a ruckus for the plot?
So that Rosamund Pike and her girlfriend can wait outside the building door and aim bush this idiot like in a Tom and Jerry cartoon. The scene at 59min18sec in the film could be straight out of a low budget TV show. Laughably bad.
5. A good thing was the dialogue between Pike and the grandma, that is what I wanted to see more of, that was genius.
6. Then she gets kidnapped by the Russian mafia, pisses off the boss who orders her dead and... she lives???
This is the most incompetent Russian mafia, straight out of a slapstick comedy. Normally when ordered dead by a mafia boss, you die. (BTW the same thing happens to the girlfriend later, but of course she gets saved by the skin of her teeth. Guess who the mafia did manage to kill... the fkng "female doctor" who is less than plot irrelevant except for her being dead. A missed opportunity to kill the girlfriend and have that be a motive for Rosamund, since Rosamund dies in the end too, so they don't get to have a happy ending anyway, might as well make the deaths mean something to the plot AND the characters. )
7. Which is why to me the rest of the movie didn't make sense, since I simply didn't beleeve that she woke up from whatever state she was induced into by the mafia men, had no shock or panic or any sort of lapse of clear thinking as she was streaming down her death in the car and on top of that manages to "one inch kick" the windshield and escape the car...
8. Also, that scene uses a lot of cuts to show her progress of escaping. The first time I saw it I found it rather tension inducing, the second time I realized that it was made probably to hide a tumbling performance, which was not the actresses fault but the directors/screenwriters who put her in that position.
9. Then there was the infiltration segment, don't even want to waste more time thinking about that.
10. Than we have what I consider the last act, where the make a pact and build an empire. This could have been achieved through a much smarter way than to have her being a spy female James Bond infiltrator. J Blakeson obviously has written this movie to be on the rather feminist side of things, and this is all right with me, no points deducted for that, but couldnt he think of a way to make her achieve a stalemate with the mafia boss by using her witts. I mean she has the biggest ace up her sleeve- his mother. And this is the biggest disappointment of thi movie. It would have been so much better to see her using her witts and cheesing the mafia boss into doing what she wants by usind the grandma. Instead he had to go the obvious feminist route and make her "just like a man. If a man can infiltrate the Russian mafia, so can she". I find that to work against the movie. It destroyed the premise of the film, it degraded the film to low crime show, it degraded the feminist agenda by not letting her be smarter than the mafia (which was already unrealistically dumb). Good think the performances were solid, so that's good.
In conclusion, with the super interesting premise that this film had, I ask myself why J Blakeson had to degrade it to such a low level Russian mafia flick and undermine a strong womans capabilities by making her a hard hitting infiltrator(we all know there is no reality where she gets through two Russian mafia bodyguards, but for feminism sake, she's gotta do it. )
The act structure for me this time was act one (the lawyer stuff), act two (the fight with the mafia) and act three (the team up) - I know it's weird, but that's my way of analyzing this film.
The first act was phenomenal, the second atrocious and the third was OK in all honesty.
I don't give a shit about "I care a lot"
Great review as usual. Reminded me of Guardianship on Last Week Tonight with Oliver. That episode on America's system for elderly care was extremely upsetting.
The ending made me more upset than in horror movies when the killer gets away or goes free.
For the love of god why couldn’t they at least put ten seconds into showing Marla’s physical endurance/capabilities to at least make it slightly believable that she’d survive the car scene and become a ~badass out of nowhere. The revenge storyline was totally unearned. Why not put a twist into Jennifer’s character? There was so much potential to not go the route that they did. Each layer did not “make sense” and I completely disagree that the outrageous conveniences weren’t enough to make people lose interest because I simply had to stop watching when I saw she decided to start chasing the mafia guys. What an eye roll.
God, guardianship is vicious and corrupt system preying for the elderly. Milking them, and destroying their self-respect. Marla is such a sadistic wolf wrapped in sheep's clothing.
I love your review you didn't reveal any thing that would ruin the movie for me and you made me want to watch it even more so I'm actually watching it right now
Rosamund Pike plays a very similar character in Gone Girl , which on the whole is a better film. Not to take anything away from I Care A Lot which is very solid. The last 30 minutes pushes crediblity and feels a bit forced. You can feel a Producer's/ Studios notes being implemented when she turns the tables on her adversary and how the whole situation is resolved. Not to give anything away but it really should have ended with her in a guardenship herself with a woman similar to her repeating the same speech she gave the mobsters mother in the beginning. Overall a solid movie and a good nights worth of entertainment.
Yes I care a lot...
I care about the 2 hours i could spent watching another movie 😭
The movie really made feel sick while watching it 5/5
!!!Spoiler ahead!!!
From The very beginning of the movie the story teller is making the viewer hate marla & her partner & made to feel sympathetic towards Jennifer Peterson & her “family”... but then towards the end of the middle the movie shifts & the music playing & the story telling shifts & it’s as if now I’m supposed to be rooting for Marla, but they already did such an amazing job of making the viewer absolutely despise her with a passion that it got really annoying for me. But the very very end made up for it, I guess.... but as a viewer I wanted to see her SUFFER for her deplorable actions! And I didn’t get that satisfaction nor did the person I watched it with...
I think they just put her in survivor mode and you are more rooting for her not to die than to succeed until she flips the table and then you feel the same way for Roman. Then they come to a compromise that felt a little weird in one sense but in another is logical as it is the beat case scenario for each. And then the characters likeability based off of their portrayed motives show with their alternative endings
@@matthewburdette248 I get what your saying:) but for me it was like I didn’t get why they were putting that music on & had them hugging & blah blah blah & I felt like I was now supposed to have compassion & start rooting for them & I was having trouble with that..
Yea no one should be able to take ur life away with out legal representation and ur doctor shouldn’t be allowed to sign off on that several third party doctors should make that assessment.
I was really worried Marla would have her happy ending. I am very satisfied that she end up dying in the hands of a son whose mother she put in the care unwillingly.
Rosamund Pike is so good at playing smart, manipulative women. I enjoyed the movie and her performance. I would rate this movie right up there with "The Last Seduction" starring Linda Fiorentino.
I'm having a difficult time expressing my emotions about this movie. It's been a long time since I've wanted a main character to be tortured over and over again. The performance was amazing. I LOATHE this character. However I also felt she was robotic. I never felt she cared about anyone. Not even a particular character that she was meant to. It felt unrealistic or one dimensional. Sorry I can't articulate correctly what about her I didn't see established. I hated this movie because her performance was so good. She's evil. Then in the last 5 minutes or so I saw a potential twist and I was mad all over again because then I liked where it was going. The ending paid off for me but it also felt unrealistic. It ended the way I would want it to end. Ultimately I think it speaks to how well made the film is that I want to analyze it. I can't say I love it. I can't say I hate it. It pulled me in and I just have to say it was entertaining and well made. I'm grateful I watched it. I don't know if I have the strength or courage to sit through it again. I definitely would recommend it. Powerful and crazy stuff.
I quite connected with this film it reminded me of similar situations some of the more curropt city councils used in the early 90s in the UK on the lone elderly people, its always good to make sure someone you trust has ur power of attorney after 65. Acting and suspensewise was awesome but ya some of the the scenes ur like this is a bit unrealistic for a film that's grounded in reality but overall it was a decent film.
I didn't know who to root for in this film. It's not every day the main character is a villain lol Definitely a great watch!
Please check out Warrior on HBO max. Great action, drama and social commentary!
I’m happy Peter Dinklage WINS!
Great review! I really enjoyed this movie although I have to say the lucky escapes and the gangsters working for Roman were like the three stooges.
I cheered for Peter Dinklage, I can’t remember how to spell his Russian name XD
I recently saw 1990's 'The Grifters' with Angelica Huston, John Cusack and Annette Bening, and oh, my gosh... How I missed this when it came out, I don't know, but it was incredible. Very dark, but very well done. I like Rosamund Pike, especially in 'Hostiles' and 'Gone Girl', and it's great to see Dianne Wiest and an actor I really like, but don't see much of - Chris Messina, as well. Thanks for the review, as always. :)
I don't know if I've ever seen The Grifters. I remember it coming out though. I hope you enjoy this one, they each gave some great performances.
The Grifters! Almost feels forgotten. Such a great flick.
This is a real crisis in Nevada and other states: they just take it up a notch.
Description at 5:03 "brief sex, a lot of profanity and some brutal violence"
You should watch the house that jack built, should be on Netflix. Kinda makes this films "brutal violence" look like Tom and Jerry
That's a fun one! Messed up, but I enjoyed it!
Diabolical, to say the least! Peter Dinklage as a Mafia Don...brilliant!! Loved this movie!!!
I wanna see a movie with miss jennifer as the protagonist. She was very believable as a sweet lady and villain
I think the movie was really good because it made me hate Marla Grayson and Fran and it was really satisfying
i don't understand how people think this is a good movie, i think it's trash, but it's interesting to see the different options i guess
It was an easy task, they got an amazing story but then the overly inept criminals ruined the story
Hi. Just stumbled onto your channel and I'm really enjoying it. Fantastic job. Thanks for doing it! If you enjoy Heist by Mamet, check out The Spanish Prisoner by him, if you haven't already. I like both but Prisoner is my favorite between the two.
Thanks! I've seen The Spanish Prisoner, but it's honestly been a ton of years. That means it's time for a rewatch!!
Also if you havent seen American Buffalo with Dustin Hoffman and Dennis Franz maybe check it out. I saw the play off broadway many many years ago and the movie is a solid repesentation of the play. It's a small time crime plot and yet another take on his working class commerce theme that he explored brilliantly in the more well known GlenGarry GlenRoss.
@@garyweskrna3099 I haven't seen it, thank you for that recommendation!
The movie Last Will & Testament with Andy Rooney from 10 years ago is similar.
I almost didnt even wach it to the end but the end fixed everything for me
really? did it fix everything wrong with the story for you? you really think all she deserved was a quick and easy death? you people baffle me.
@@iam_a_sad_khan your just mad it it wasent torture porn for you to get off to. Yes when the villian of the movei gets there just deserts it pleases me. Also not a real person.
@@unlikelysuspect5491 dude, she was literally torturing those old people. She was starving them of food. She mentally and physically tortured Jennifer Peterson. I would have loved the movie if Marla Grayson had learned her lesson. If she met a Marla Grayson herself, that would have been awesome.
Think of the people who worked with her and who worked under her. They will think that the way Marla lived her life and did her business was the right way and probably continue torturing people for money. Maybe I am just a little too sensitive when it comes to vulnerable people like old people and kids.
Will be checking this one out, heard so many mixed views
Don't waste your time on this one. It's very disappointing.
@@YTfancol oh dear :(
So did you watch it?
The ending made up for the whole movie. I cant remember what happened and will have to rewatch "The Sting".
just seen this !!.......it was great !!!!
I watched this movie yesterday, I disturbingly loved it!
Yea, strange. Most ppl hated it, but I love her character, Strong.
I stopped watching after an hour and a half, when it became obvious that the two woman, ripping off the elderly, were going to be shown as heroic figures.
Good film exceeded my expectations. For similar heist, action film my favorite is a 2011 Norwegian film headhunters.
Is it only me that get bothered by the amount of money and power involved but with the sheer lack of security throughout the whole movie?
The Bank with David Wenham is a good one. 😎👍
Bad movie, feminists have triumphed, clap upside down for them. It was better to motivate brave women to confront a mafia led by a person with special needs, the director and writer provided a disgusting example of ambition, the story focused on a woman who defrauded the elderly but suddenly wow she could topple a gang For organized crime, give her some caffeine, not Mel Gibson, I pity the feminist to present itself in this way. The male roles in the movie are marginal, starting with the clumsy judge, the gang, the attorney, and Boss.Thanks for laughing at the minds of motivated women, they will start their morning with the hope of becoming lionesses by fraud.
These mobsters are the worst murderers in movie history. Both the main char and her GF survive a pre-meditated murder somehow? worst mobsters ever.
I clapped for the ending
That has to be one of the best endings of any movie...if you know what I mean.
Just made me look up if this is a real business
It is!
@@robertesch3851 wow
There's a series called Dirty Money on Netflix that has an episode dedicated to the this type of conservatorship scam. It's pretty disgusting what they do to the elderly.
Horrible story, very bad example, and if it exists, it has to be fought, at least one right attitude in the end a bullet to eliminate this savourless character, forgot the other, almost a comedy 👎🤏
It was so dumb
don't even know what's the message behind it
What are they trying to convey?
Entertainment? They already failed.
That women are capable?.. We already hated your example.
That elders can be abused? Yeah as if it was possible to play the court in 80 damn city, not even real.
@@mustafaiq1 the message is KARMA. You can’t get away with something forever , sooner or later you will get what you deserve
@@brutuslugo3969 didn't even notice Karma in the movie..
She got all she wanted (despite the unrealistic way of doing it) and then died by a bullet shot in 3 seconds
@@mustafaiq1 yea the Bullet was karma catching up to her . The movie had you believe she’d get away with everything even tho you’d be rooting for her to fail through the whole movie and just when you thought she got away with it all karma came knocking
I agree, awful, Roseamund Pike played the same character in Gone Girl, I liked that movie.
I was following the movie until she was kidnapped and survived the whole car accident and then to join forces with the bad guys!? 😳🤷🏻♂️ I did not see that coming but there’s NO WAY you can root for someone like that and the ending happen the way it should’ve.
reminded me a lot of Carlitos Way ending. Good movie but implausible
Would hard candy be considered av grift?
Feminist turd detached from reality fantasy it would have ended in the quarry scene
If the a mafia boss has you tied up in a quarry and wants something from you...and not only do you not do it but u make smart ass comments and try n to extort him....we all know how that scene ends....the movie continuously goes unrealistic to serve the plot and keep the movie going...showing how bad ass she was was more important than telling a believable story
@@bigomez83 right there with you here is how it really would go that care take would have disappeared completely the guy running the home would have been squeezed to let the old lady go and the next care taker would have taken the bribe the judge would likely either been told by political means to back off or he would have been eliminated with the doctor and her girlfriend and God help them if they tried that kinda crap on a cartel bosses mama
No idea how this is a dark comedy. I was actually surprised when, after watching it, I saw people calling it one. Did I miss something, or do dark comedies no longer require comedy?
i agree, i laugh at Anthony Jeselnik , I didn't really laugh at this movie. even if something was kinda funny I was too busy being infuriated to notice
If this movie had only ended without this girl getting what she deserved in the end I swear , this movie would have gotten destroyed in the comment section
I couldn't finish it. What a horrible movie.
She totally made me mad so bad that I want her to win the Oscar ...
This movie was utterly disturbing.
The movie would’ve been exponentially improved if Marla was successful and didn’t die, but her girlfriend left her due to her lack of humanity. I was pretty sure they were seeding that in the first half then just... went nowhere with it. Would have been a lot more powerful for her to have to accept that she can have all the money in the world but if she behaves like a villain she’ll never know love. I do like that she dies as the prey not the predator, but that was the only good part of the last hour
Wanna watch a 2-hour movie about someone you hate? This movie was terrible. There was NOTHING about the main character that was cool. It is possible to have a story about an Evil Villain, and write it such that the audience is rooting for the villain. It can be done. But there was NOTHING to like about this person. She's not the sort of Evil Villain you enjoy watching. She's the sort of Evil that you want to see beaten to a pulp and thrown into a Turkish prison and beaten some more. This is made even more annoying because she's so strong and competent and awesome at everything. Imagine if Rey was a scheming, lying, larcenous sociopath. She SUCKS. You keep waiting for her to get her comeuppance but she never does. The end result is a frustrating, annoying, and deeply unsatisfying story.
Don’t take it too personally.
@@majoremgloriam5034
What? It's a short review of a movie. Don't take my little review too personally.
I never saw a godfather with 1 car with less than 10 security guards unable to kill 2 nobody scammers from a small town besides that it is an....ok movie
I thought it wasn't Netflix but Amazon?
It's Netflix in the US. Amazon could own the rights in other countries.
Amazon last year Netflix this year
@@MoviesAndMunchies I seen it last year on Amazon
I enjoyed the movie, but found it problematic. Rosamund’s character was the Protagonist we were supposed to be rooting for but was so villainous there was no redeeming qualities. And the script writers missed the huge opportunity to have Diane Weise character or the son use the smoking thing Rosamund’s character smoked through to cause Rosamund’s character end up becoming incapacitated (fake stroke?) and end up living the same fate as her victims (except, satisfying for audience knowing she has many years ahead of her being drugged and set up as payback)
One of my favorite movies involving con artists is "The Grifters" with John Cusack, Annette Benning, and Angelica Houston. This movie was good but I really can't stand the theme of anyone taking advantage of vulnerable, elderly people. The whole time I was rooting for the Russian Mafia.
Hmm Darn it i Turned it off after Watching another review Who put it in The Garbage haha.
I always love your reveiws, i Will give it a try 😊
LOL! Well, I'm pretty sure you won't like the characters...and that's exactly what's supposed to happen. I've watched some other reviews since doing mine and I can also see some of their criticisms. I just happened to enjoy the ride. I hope you do too!
The story was way too good in the second half it turns into an action thriller wich was kind of odd but still like the movie.
I feel like this movie wanted to be Gone Girl but lacked the writting skills to pull it off, patching everything with unrealistic outcomes and underestimating viewers intelligence. It has a good premise but a horrible execution.
Does "green room" count?
That's a brutal film!
@@MoviesAndMunchies yep. It makes "i care alot" seem like "kindergarten cop"
@@ertfgghhhh LOL!!
Review bulit by effervescence
Yeah I wasn't feeling this movie Rosemund is a fantastic actress but the ending was so predictable 👎🏼
In real life, she would not have been shot at the end; due to having many body guards, and a full set of bullet proof cars/SUVs, for her personal protection convoy.
Simple, Great movie!!
Everyone is complaining about the ending and the character ,but there's plenty of Marla's in the world that don't get what's coming to them . I'm glad some of u left unsatisfied because In the real world justice is not always handed out
Here's the thing though, we don't watch movies for a retelling of the news. We watch them to be entertained.
The end of the movie is the best scene from the whole movie, I hope it will happen to the real criminals doing that to the elderly. They deserve it! But the rest of that movie was like a low budget movie, don't watch it!
The first 30 minutes are great, but get ready for a story to be turned from Lord of The Rings to Harry Potter, i.e. brilliant to baby
Karma!!!
It's not a Netflix original. That's why it was actually good
I managed to watch this entire movie. For the life of me, I don't understand why it felt like we were being told to root for Marla. I especially felt it when in the earlier scenes she played the whole "woman vs man" trope against the son of one of her imprisoned wards. Marla was a trash person.
I was annoyed that they made the mafia guys look like bumbling idiots just so Marla could appear to be some smart mastermind. She got away with way more than she should've. Her ending was good enough I guess, but there's nothing about this movie that I'd deem to be worth any awards. It's not even the premise that bothered me so much, I just felt like they could've done so much with it!
I think that you are giving way too much credit to the writers. The first 2/3 of this movie were great, but it really fell of the tracks and continued to barrel off course for the final act.
I hated the concept of this movie. I dunno maybe I know too many old ppl. I HAD 2 skip to the end bc I was soooo mad...🤷🏽♀️ & only then was the itch of me being satisfied scratched....but I guess that's good acting for ya?
I am still waiting for the day you run out of lumberjack shirts and have to wear sth. else.... :) :) :) The cast alone seems to be worth a watch. Will definitely check this one out as soon as they have it on German Netflix.
LOL! I hope I never run out of flannels!!
@@MoviesAndMunchies 15.000 subscribers- a channel sponsorship by THE NORTH FACE, maybe...?
I just finish it just now and i think if this happen to me i will become a killer
This is one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen in my life. So many plot holes and eye rolling moments. This is really infuriating
The movie is good, but the thing that it's really made me mad ugghhh🤦😩 I don't like it 🤦 why she always play this kind of irritating person alive 😩
Was a good movie in the beginning but than became So unrealistic, In what world would 2 woman survive and take down a Russian mobster.. Just look how hard it was for John wick and come on IT'S "John wick"
Best Movie In A Long Time