An average movie

Just a couple of weeks ago, I saw ‘The Intern’, also starring Robert Ne Niro, also playing a widower, and I was amazed about how underwhelming the whole thing turned out to be. Well, even if this movie with a rather similar character for De Niro was nothing really amazing, at least, it was slightly better than ‘The Intern’. Indeed, there was something quite genuine about this father who was neither a great father or a terrible one and who struggles to connect with his grown-up children. Unfortunately, even though the concept had some potential, I thought it was rather poorly developed. The first thing that bothered me was the fact that, of all the 4 children, none of them had an average job. Indeed, one was a musician, one was a painter, one was a dancer and one run a successful advertisement agency. Furthermore, the whole gimmick of having them talking on the phone about what the father didn’t know didn’t work at all. I mean, it would have been more efficient to discover everything at the same time with this character. Eventually, since there was too much to deal with, they threw in a rather lame dream sequence with all children when they were just kids explaining everything to the viewers. To conclude, in spite of its flaws, I thought it was a decent watch and I think it is worth a look but it was still far from being one of the best movies starring Robert De Niro.