An average movie

I wasn’t expecting much from this movie but, since there was decent cast involved and since it was available on Netflix, I thought I might as well check it out anyway. Seriously, even before I actually started to watch the damned thing, the story did sound so derivative and hardly entertaining. To be honest, you might wonder how they managed to get such a solid cast involved (Toni Collette, Anna Faris, David Duchovny, Rosemarie DeWitt, Kathleen Turner, Ron Livingston). I do think that they all tried to make it work and I have to admit that there were some moments when they almost pulled it off. But, unfortunately, only ‘almost’…. Indeed, even though their whole plan was rather mean and obviously unethical, I don’t think the characters were really unlikable, with the exception of David Duchovny’s character though. Sure, Kathleen Turner played your typical grumpy old lady, and she did it with gusto, but her character was just one-note and she had no personality whatsoever. In fact, it’s just weird that, even though she was dying, even though she was high on morphine for most of the time, she seemed to be sharp enough to see what the hell was going on but yet she said nothing about it. Anyway, even if I didn’t hate these characters, it doesn’t mean that they were really interesting or entertaining at all though. Concerning the ending, at least, it was nice that Aunt Hilda’s final words were ‘You are all bastards’ or something like that but everything else happening afterwards (including the two twists) was just predictable, it was borderline pathetic. Eventually, when it is so difficult nowadays to get the greenlight for a mid-budget feature, you might wonder why something so hopeless from the start like this managed to get made at all. Anyway, to conclude, it turned out to be pretty weak and, even if I have seen worse, you should probably avoid it.