The wicked Netflix neo-noir I Care A Lot is just the right amount of wrong
Film Reviews I Care a Lot
Anyone who likes their movies to have “someone to root for” should stay far away from J Blakeson’s unapologetically sour and cynical neo-noir I Care A Lot. This is the story of a irredeemable villain: a clever grifter named Marla Grayson (Rosamund Pike), who has figured out a way to become the legal guardian for dozens of elderly men and women, funneling their bank accounts and valuables into her own pockets. Her scam works like gangbusters, until she crosses someone who has the resources to challenge her. That unlikely hero? Roman Lunyov (Peter Dinklage), a cutthroat drug kingpin who has been living almost completely off the grid, with piles of money, a staff of killers at his command, and a labor force of immigrants forced to risk their lives smuggling his narcotics. So who’s the good guy here?
How about J Blakeson? In 2009, this talented British writer-director made his feature filmmaking debut with The Disappearance Of Alice Creed, a finely crafted low-budget thriller with a darkly comic streak, about an icy kidnapper who thinks he’s mapped out every possible complication, until he discovers that both his partner and their victim are keeping dangerous secrets. The film got good reviews, but it’s taken over a decade for Blakeson to produce a proper follow-up. In the interim, he directed (but didn’t write) the widely panned 2016 science-fiction film The 5th Wave and the 2017 HBO/BBC One miniseries Gunpowder, neither of which was much like Alice Creed. I Care A Lot, on the other hand, hits a lot of the same beats as Blakeson’s breakthrough, from its impressively twisty plot to its fascinatingly foul characters.
Pike is an absolute delight as Marla, a terrible person but wonderful company. Alongside assistant and lover Fran (Eiza González), Marla struts confidently through a world of judges, lawyers, nurses, and administrators, taking advantage of society’s general lack of interest in quality elder care. Marla and Fran look for people nearing the end of their lives who own property, who have a decent social security and pension income, and who aren’t in close contact with their relatives. By positioning herself as a concerned Good Samaritan in court—and by making sure that her sources in geriatric medicine get paid off—Marla is able to get these senior citizens declared incompetent, and can then take enough of their money to live like a swell. What’s she’s doing is unconscionable, and yet it’s pretty exciting to watch her do it, in the same way that it’s fun to fun to see how cable TV antiheroes like Saul Goodman out-think their opposition.
The trouble for Marla in I Care A Lot starts when she stumbles across Jennifer Peterson (Dianne Wiest), a woman with no apparent attachments, who lives alone in a nice house and has access to a safety deposit box containing precious gems. Though Jennifer is reasonably healthy and mentally fit, Marla greases a lot of palms to get her committed to a long-term care facility (and to get her prescribed heavy drugs, so she’ll be too numb to balk). What she doesn’t expect is that Roman—a man who, according to all available records, has been dead for years—has a personal connection both to the old lady and her hidden treasure.
What follows is a true battle of the bastards, as Roman first tries to use the law (in the form of his smarmy attorney, played by a perfectly cast Chris Messina) to expose Marla’s racket, then later works to destroy her and Fran using his hired muscle. Marla, meanwhile, actively trolls Roman, certain that either he won’t risk revealing himself or that if he does, she can trap him. They trade blows throughout the bulk of the film, getting more vicious with each punch.
There is a point to all this, sort of. I Care A Lot can be read as a commentary on how American institutions are easily corruptible because the people who keep them running are underpaid and largely unmonitored. The characters of Marla and Fran also represent a certain kind of authoritarian arrogance that should be familiar to anyone who’s lived through the last five years. They do what they want because they know that if they’re brazen enough, no one will be able to muster the courage or the will to stand up against them.
But let’s not make too many great claims here. I Care A Lot isn’t some brilliantly subversive social satire. It’s a tightly constructed, masterfully acted, lightly stylish little caper picture, which revels in just how mean it can be. It’s not essential, and it’s not for everybody. But for those who prefer their pulp to carry the faint aroma of moral rot, this movie is a real treat.
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I figured this was a story set in Nevada. I understand that there are legalities that make this a going thing with the elderly there?
So would you say that Rosamund Pike is suffering a…Dianne Weist infection?
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This is my favorite cold open the show has done.
It’s definitely up there. And the opportunity to make the ref was just hanging there.“It’s Just Hanging There,” title of my etc., etc.
Second only to the Backstreet Boys line-up.
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[Stares impassively at LoopyChew, refusing to dignify the joke with a response despite his increasingly hopeful and excited looks]
This sounds great but I could’ve sworn I heard about it a while ago? Has it been sitting on a shelf in Netflix’ basement?
It was in the TIFF lineup in September, and Katie reviewed it first then.
Ah, that’s it.
Yeah, I remember the trailer last year. COVID-related theatrical issues, maybe?
It premiered at TIFF in September.
Come for Rosamund Pike as a remorseless sociopath, stay for Dinkles in a man-bun.
Rosamund Pike said in an interview that she was taken aback when David Fincher told her that she “was a natural” at playing a sociopath. He wasn’t wrong.
I see it too.
*shudder*
I always remember thinking that Amy Dunne was a bit shit in the book, that she was just a little too camp for my liking as a properly evil character, but Pike just went that little bit too far down the road (as Fincher often gets his actors to do) and she was fucking terrifying. There’s a video that explores the ending of Gone Girl and, oh, it’s delicious and it’s testament to her performance. She even made the Cool Girl monologue more than what it was in the book – she gives it menace, arrogance and even manages to work in derision of cheap cars just by inflections. It helps that she does more than just the “blank look” people automatically assume with sociopaths – at times she manages to express the undercurrent of anger and frustration that Amy felt towards Nick for dragging her to the Midwest (I would too, darling). And weirdly, this is the only copy of the Cool Girl monologue I can find in it’s entirety.Gone Girl was a fun read, but as a film it works on multiple layers, helped by multiple-layer performances, especially by Pike. The one thing I’ve always said though is that Nick is still terrified of her at the end of the film. I never got that from the book and that’s why the film is better than the book.
The one thing I wish the film took from the book was Amy’s female friend from high school. I think the film portrayal of Amy suffers without it.
I don’t know. Incorporating too many details about Amy’s history – no matter how tempting it would have been – would have detracted from the somewhat-merciless sociopathy she shows on-screen. When you look at the film as a whole, it would have been literally a plot-thread that could have been left hanging. Fincher was clever in trimming away a lot of the unnecessary extraneous plot and making it a leaner and ultimately meaner film.
Without the female friend, Amy’s motivations are reduced to punishing partners who don’t want to be with her by lying about rape, which is, frankly, boring. As much as I love seeing Scoot McNairy in anything, I would’ve preferred dropping his character in favour of the friend. To me, that character best highlights that any deviation from the relationship roles — platonic or romantic — that Amy has assigned is the true transgression in her mind.
it’s so weird, because I can totally see it, but still, my first association with Rosamunde Pike will always be gentle, angelic, too-nice-for-this-world Jane Bennet in Pride and Prejudice.
It’s the eyes. She can make them dead so well it’s fascinating.
Adding in Chris Messina & Macon Blair just to round it out!
She’s fantastic in practically everything. Even that goofy-ass 007 movie with the Korean death ray.
I just watched that a week ago, as it happens. It sucked. (Pike was good in it though. Or at least, as good as she needed to be.)
Siegmund Freud, analyse this
Madonna is not fit to shine Shirley Bassey’s shoes.
I’ll swordfight her!
I’m so glad that that wasn’t the beginning and end of her career. It seemed like it for a while. I mean, she was in stuff, but it feels like Gone Girl was the first time I heard of her being in something after Bond.
Sociopath or no, I was still rooting for her in Gone Girl, lol.
I was rooting for Tyler Perry and Carrie Coon.
Oh my goodness. Tyler Perry’s character is the kind of friend everyone needs but doesn’t appreciate.
*mmmmmm…man-bun…*
You had me at Chris Messina. He doesn’t dance by any chance does he? You’re welcome.
Everyone loves Diamond Dan.
To date the only man I’ve seen in one that I think looks even halfway decent.
We’d better get a Dinklage/Pike cage match at the end of this. Chairs, piledrivers, Pete climbing the chainlink and elbow-dropping on a prostrate Rosamund, the fucking works.
Such. An attractive. Sociopath.
What’s she’s doing is unconscionable, and yet it’s pretty exciting to
watch her do it, in the same way that it’s fun to fun to see how cable
TV antiheroes like Saul Goodman out-think their opposition.
Funny, since the first season of Better Call Saul featured him exposing retirement homes which exploited seniors like the ones here. He does get worse over the series, but even at the latest he’s hurting people who might be innocent but can afford to take the hit.
Saul at his worst is better than Marla at her best. I enjoyed the movie, but watched the whole thing hoping she wouldn’t get a happy ending.
I was going to reply that it might be a matter of movie-length being less of a tax on your willingness to follow a reprehensible protagonist vs a multi-season TV show, but then I remembered that Tony Soprano was just a thug from the beginning and that was very popular throughout its six season run.
I guess I can see the comparison to BCS, but I agree it’s not an exact fit. The closest analogue I could think of was Thank You for Smoking—except, obviously, with a female lead and a focus on the senior care industry instead of big tobacco. (And less character depth, maybe? I don’t know—liked both but didn’t like this one as much.)
I loved Alice Creed! So twisty! I’ve stopped reading the review and will watch this weekend.
I adore Rosamund Pike with a fiery passion and this sounds really good so I’ll definitely be watching.
I’m an idiot, it took for me to see a picture of Peter Dinklage for me to understand that Peter Dinklage is in fact not Peter Stormare… I saw Roman and Peter and I thought that Peter Stormare was the bad guy because I didn’t know that Peter Dinklage was still a thing.
did you stay a little too long at the wine tasting?
No I didn’t know that Peter Dinklage was still a thing, I thought that he got like put away when Game Of Thrones ended like his 15 minutes of fame were over.
…. I don’t know if you know this but… like… Dinklage is a very good and largely well-respected actor. “15 minutes of fame”?
His bit on 30 Rock was great
Not to mention the problem with GoT was never the acting.
I’m not a game of thrones fan, but he’s been in some other stuff
I suggest you watch The Station Agent.
YOU’RE THE FUCKING DAINKLAGE!
Peter Dinklage IS Jack Dorsey
This was clearly inspired by a real case (albeit one that didn’t involve a drug kingpin):http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/09/how-the-elderly-lose-their-rights/
“Anyone who likes their movies to have “someone to root for”…”I think I like this thesis. Maybe it just seems recent but so many of the narratives I’ve been watching lack what has been traditionally known as a “hero” or even a true protagonist. Off the top of my head, Bridgerton, Peaky Blinders and I’m about to give up on Dr. Foster (seriously girl?). It certainly isn’t a new concept – Hitchcock gave us plenty of stories where the human condition didn’t leave a lot of opportunities for altruistic behavior. If this becomes a dominant trend in storytelling I’m willing to be a patient student even if that means sacrificing the pleasure of identifying with someone I would like to be.
I don’t know how far you are into Dr. Foster, but yeah, it only gets worse and worse. Abandon ship.
Yeah, I don’t mind spoilers so I Googled it and now I can’t believe it got a second season. It really does look as though the Naturalist genre (emerging around 1865) is back for a while.
One season of Dr. Foster was good enough and plenty enough. Can only take so much of those people. Dynamic actress though.
Suranne Jones is great, but damn the rest of the show just utterly failed her, starting with the writing and the directing. Season one was iffy, but season two devolves into a mess of inconsistent characterization and bizarre logic. I’m sorry, but characters have to behave in some small way like they actually inhabit the same world as the rest of us. Gemma and Simon both behave in ways that stretch the bounds of credulity.In the end, I was rooting for both of them to die, perhaps by each other’s hand. Sort of like a vengeful Romeo and Juliet. I was glad that (spoiler alert on a 4-year-old show) their son ran away. Those people were toxic. But mostly by the end I was mad at myself for sticking it out. I could tell by like episode 3 that it was going to the bad place, and I kept thinking that the writers might regain some control, but nope. They crossed the rat-shit rubicon and kept right on going.
egh, soap and camp; my two least favourite styles.
still watched the whole mess because suranne jones.
I can’t get into Peaky Blinders or Bridgerton. It did take me a couple times to get into Schitt’s Creek, so my first judgment was wrong, but I’ve heard this from others. I ended up loving it of course. I tried Poldark yesterday, but read a review that it turns into Outlander ie, so outrageous that you can’t stand it. I decided on the John Adams mini series on HBO Max. And people think politics now are awful.
“So, we need to do a show that appeals to women.”“Chicks like period dramas and rape, right?”“Whoa, that rape’s a bit exploitative.”“Yeah, but it’ll be done tastefully. Tasteful rape.”“Explain ‘tasteful rape’.”“Like, ultimately, the victim benefits by gaining massive amounts of sympathy, while revelling in the vicarious thrill of knowing that they’re so sexually attractive others are willing to break both the laws and social customs to have sex with them, all while retaining their purity and honour by not engaging in it willingly.” “That’s still pretty awful.”“Well, we’ll be egalitarian about it. Women, raped. Men, raped. Donkeys, raped. Lampposts, raped. Fish, raped. Wheels of cheddar cheese, raped. There’ll be guy-on-guy rape, girl-on-guy rape, lamppost-on-lamp, donkey-on-lamppost rape, cheese-on-fish rape. More rape than a canola field.” “Your coke dealer back in town?”“Hell yeah.”“You sonofabitch, you been holding out on me? Bust out you mirror and black Amex, let’s see if I’ve still got reservations after we rack some up.”
Maybe I’ll try Shitt’s Creak then. I’ve heard awful things about Poldark and rape? Peaky Blinders just left me seriously disturbed. It took a week to get over that mess.
We’re in the “second wind” of Television Drama, so there’s been a lot of emphasis on anti-heroes lately. I’m of the camp that don’t necessarily need a likable character to keep watching, but it also means that the show has to be on point with its story or it’ll just be shitty people being shitty. And that’s boring.
During my studies I was reading a lot of the Naturalists: Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis, Sherwood Anderson and becoming wildly depressed but the sad fact is – it’s hard to find good guys. You make an excellent point – the story itself has to reward us somehow.
For sure. Some shows don’t know how to hit that balance. They think terrible person automatically equals interesting and that is sooo not the case. There’s a difference between someone doing bad things but like okay I kind of get it (Breaking Bad, Gone Girl) and shows where the characters are just SO insufferable that its like why would I want to watch this??? They completely lack charm. Arrested Development is fullll of terrible selfish people but it’s hilarious and charming as hell. Villanelle on Killing Eve is a literal sociopathic assassin but she’s charming and funny and stylish as hell. Idk who in hollywood needs to hear this but just making a character a bad person doesn’t make them compelling to watch.
Feel like it’s been culturally pretty dominant since The Sopranos.
Oh, it’s not hard to turn one of these characters into someone the audience can root for. Just have them save a kittycat from a tree in Scene 2.
I don’t need “someone to root for”, but I do need “some believable human qualities”, which Pike’s character does not. She’s simultaneously a type-A, ultra-competent, sociopathic, pain-impervious, combat-ready, super powered, super spy in this thing.
She could’ve blasted lasers out her arse at her adversaries at any moment and it wouldn’t have seemed off course.
If this were a different movie she might be an anti-hero. But her absolute schmuck of a husband just isn’t worth all of the effort she takes to get payback. What scorned woman doesn’t want (and deserve) some payback? There is maybe a tiny place in many of us that would enjoy the satisfaction. But, again, he is completely unworthy, which makes the film (and the novel) yes – unbelievable and more than a little ridiculous.
Yeah I didn’t get why she was so awesome in a fight- her girlfriend was the ex-cop.
I mean, I was mainly rooting for her to die since there are actual bastards like her character in real life.
I first saw Dinklage in a one-season sci-fi flop called ‘Threshold’, and I could tell from his first scene that this was an actor to watch. He came in with such strength of personality and flair that he pretty much blew everyone else off the screen. It was a pretty broad character, but he also does great with quieter roles, like in ‘Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri’.
The first time I really noticed how great he is, was in ‘The Station Agent’, an understated gem of a movie. I must’ve seen him in ‘Safe Men’ and ‘Human Nature’ before that, but he hadn’t really caught my eye yet. (And let’s just pretend ‘Tiptoes’ never happened, shall we.)
Obviously the movie doesn’t work without him BUT that whole cast is excellent. It was where I first took notice of Bobby Cannavale, too.
I think Nip/Tuck was the first time I watched him in a role and he was pretty obviously the best actor in every scene he was in.
It was 30 Rock for me.
Living In Oblivion for me. “Even I don’t dream about dwarfs!”
What happened to Miss Pikes abundant bosom? She was resplendently stacked in Jack Reacher but then she seemed…diminished? Still a cool lady and great actress though.
I believe it was due to the aftereffects of recently having a child. Easy come, easy go. ( If you read anything into that last sentence, it’s on you.)
If there is a sequel though, will it use this as its theme song?
Oh thank God I’m not the only who immediately thought of this song
you’re not.
Oh I did. I love it.
This is on the Grosse Point Blank soundtrack, which is one of the best soundtracks EVER. I don’t know who the music supervisor was on the film, but they earned their paycheck.
Mirror in the Bathroom for the fight with Benny the Jet. Goddam perfection.
The music supervisor was Kathy Nelson. She has 213 credits for music and is Ricky Nelson’s cousin. She worked on Love Actually, Friday Night Lights (film), Bourne Identity, Munich, Pulp Fiction, just to name a few. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0625512/
I came here prepared to care a lot about Rosamund Pike; I found myself caring a lot about Alicia Witt. I have spoken.
They are equally worth caring about. Now we are all happy!
I love Alicia Witt.In her episode of The Sopranos (D-Girl), that look she gives Christopher when he scares off the Morgan Stanley guy is, for my money, the best anyone has ever looked on camera.Yeah that’s a big claim, but I’m making it.
Rosamond Pike can do NO WRONG. I will fight you.
Well, there was that time when she said that Allison Brie really wasn’t all that cute . . .
Wait, what? Did she really say that? Why would she say that?!?!
for Transformers cos theres more than meets the eye?
NETFLIX? NO THANKS, IWILL NOT SUPPORT THEIR PEDO AGENDA
Odin is blackmailing an evil nursing home scammer in American Gods, yes there is a third season.
Just watched. What a bunch of absolute bastards, fucking ace.Did it get a theatrical run? I want awards. It’s a shame Dianne Wiest doesn’t feature so much in the last half, another 5-10 minutes of screentime and we really should be looking at oscar #3
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i really wanted her to be more involved in some revenge plot
“Marla and Fran look for people nearing the end of their lives who own
property, who have a decent social security and pension income, and who
aren’t in close contact with their relatives.”So, a gritty reboot of Say Anything then?
This film is such fun, and even manages to get in Lucretius’ argument against the fear of death at one rather key point. And behind it all is a real anger.
Watched this last night.Super-meh.C- at best. She needed to die a lot sooner, and/or receive far more violence for her crime. Also, lame sex scene. Dianne Wiest is the only one working on this show.
Good acting all around and a good movie right up until Marla escaped from the car. Can’t put my finger on it but the last 40 minutes just felt different from the story they started with.
The car escape scene kinda lost me as well, but then when she gets payback I chalked up such an improbable scene to her sheer force of will.
something about a multimillionaire drug lord who is extra precautious being outwitted in 15 minutes seemed off.
got very strange, movie didn’t seem to have a clue how to tie all those scenes together. And Wiest seemed wasted.
Yeah somehow I feel like that can’t be the ending they started out with. Like they tested the movie with audiences and got some feedback and went back and re-wrote it. Cuz wtf was that.
Honestly, I thought that once Roman presented his “deal,” that the Success Montage thereafter was just Marla’s fantasy. And it would end w/ her and Fran getting murdered as Marla was signing what she thought to be business partnership paperwork after Roman & Jennifer’d been freed.
Plus yeah, no way Marla would have survived that murder attempt. And what hit-person terrified of Roman wouldn’t have verified Fran’s death (or even waited just a couple minutes to verify that Marla wouldn’t have swam to the surface)?
I like your first paragraph. That would have been even better than the actual ending.
Yeah- I didn’t understand how they put alcohol in her system to verify it was a DUI, but only enough she could easily come out of it? Just put a whole bottle in her if you’re going to do that and no one’s going to wake up that quickly from being that drunk. And yeah Fran magically being OK and not even needing to go to the hospital? It was all a bit too easy. It didn’t even make sense why they’d kill them separately instead of torturing them until they called the nursing home to release the mom. Or didn’t start setting some of those vacant homes on fire
It’s because, all of a sudden, the Russian Mafia became completely unable to kill people. It’s particularly evident in how they just completely abandoned the girlfriend with the gas running for hours so it could explode after she escaped, and also that Dinklidge didn’t kill her or tip off the authorities at the end despite it not being profitable as he had more to his character than greed.
This was a big problem given that a large part of the film’s thesis up to that point was that she had a toddler-like attitude, as best exemplified by her rant about how the old woman wasn’t “following the rules.” There was also a bit of a thesis in the gender dynamics that seemed to be based around her attitude that she as a woman deserved to be trusted and exempt from hostility but that she had no responsibility to be trustworthy or refrain from doing harm (albeit usually contained the forms she had an advantage in), as indicated by all her allies being women shirking their professional ethics and responsibilities (including that one cop). Honestly, it would have been satisfying had she just been backed over by the driver, showing how in over her depth she was as soon as she entered an arena where being a non-ugly woman isn’t silver bullet.
It was just a little bit too convenient that those cold blooded killers couldn’t kill not one but two fairly typical women and that his security was that loose. It was bad enough that they decided to send 3 guys in to get his mother instead of just like finding a CNA or a travel nurse that worked there and bribing them to wheel his mother out. Shady places like that also tend to treat and pay their employees badly and CNAs get paid shit and get treated like shit even in a good one. And they tend to concentrate in certain populations, so you’d basically just have to ask who knows somebody that works at that facility. Now the bigger question is how well the Russian mob was doing with local gangs- I guess if he somehow wasn’t getting along with any black or Latino gangs in the area that would be harder. But those kind of nursing homes aren’t impenetrable, they’re mostly that way if you’re following the rules
I had a similar experience. I think it’s because, up until that point, I (and many other viewers, I’d imagine) was thoroughly enjoying watching her downfall at the hands of the mob; of falling victim to her own hubris.So when she escapes the car, it feels like the movie wants us to admire her for her wit and resilience, when watching her drown, scared and alone, would have been more satisfying overall.The whole movie is coated in the putrid sheen of ironic #girlboss attitude, but for the entire third act (save the final 90 seconds), that tone suddenly starts to feel sincere, as though we’re meant to have forgotten or at least temporarily overlooked Marla’s atrocities.I recognize that I’m absolutely just becoming one of the “need a character to root for” people acknowledged in this review, but the fact of the matter is that building an entire story around unrepentant villains can be tricky, as it requires the writer to avoid pitfalls exactly like this one. Not that I’m saying stories about villains can’t also be a lot of fun; this one often is.
(Sorry for resurrecting to yell – I’m always weeks late on watching) but yes, this is exactly it. It felt like something had been workshopped there, and poorly. Tonally it just felt all over the place to me – I actually think the rating AV club gave it is overly kind. Everyone does their best in terms of acting around the inadequacies here but there are so, so many.
Don’t get me wrong, I love Peter Dinklage but Dianne Wiest was not written well and I honestly think this could have been a much better movie if it had Dianne taking the wheel more and twisting the screws right back. The way in which the mob is duped just makes no sense.
Someone watched Gone Girl a lot, read a story about elder abuse, and scrambled for a script.
Yep that’s the exact moment where my suspension of belief snapped. They even put water in her lungs. Theres no way she couldve made it out. And her choices after didnt seem to make sense either. The movie lost me a bit.
They didn’t put water in her lungs, they put vodka in her stomach. But that still ends up being rather unbelievable because, as someone above pointed out, they for some reason put such a small amount in that she woke up ten minutes later. I enjoyed the silliness of how competent and motivated the nursing home staff were, it’s a shame that the Russian mafia went the opposite way because that then just feels lazy. I wanted *everyone* to be super-competent.
Ahh right. I guess i didnt pay attention that bit closely enough. But yes as you say, either way they bungled it. The Russian mafia came off as so inept i genuinely began to wonder if there was special forces training in Marlas past lool. The best parts were the well oiled machinery of the nursing home scam. Agreed.
Coming in a year later to say: an arc stun gun doesn’t stun. Not even to the neck. It just hurts Those big guys could have snapped her like a carrot stick. Even a Taser doesn’t leave a huge guy unconscious and helpless.
Just finished watching this. Loved it. Great acting all around and I just love neo noir and pitch black comedies. This was a combination of those two elements.
This is a weird new case – seems to be making its distribution debut on Netflix, but not Netflix everywhere. (at least, not in Canada.)
Upon further investigation it’s on Amazon Prime here?!?
**SPOILER ALERT**The ending of this movie is ripped shot for shot from Layer Cake. Pike is even wearing a [redacted]!
I wish it would have ended about a minute earlier, but a really good timeI spoke to a septuagenarian who saw it and was delightfully horrified and scandalized by the guardian scheme 🙂
this got shitty the last 30 mins or so which sucks because it was so good. Pike killed it tho.
was it all a fantasy after the car wreck? so frustrated how such a good movie shit the bed so bad 🙁
SPOILER ALERT!The exact ending. Good.
It reminded me the movie “The Grifters” exists but it’s not nearly as good.
I hated Pike’s character so much and wanted her to lose so intensely, I wondered if I was actually a misogynist! I can’t recall the last time I so hated a female character and wanted her to lose in every way possible. Pike was tremendous in the role (kind of like how much I HATED Samuel Jackson’s character in ‘D’Jango Unchained’. Although, to be fair, I didn’t think I was a racist due to my hate of his character….but its mostly because I’m black too.)
I don’t think you’re a misogynist for hating a character who is profiting off of elder abuse. There is nothing even to redeem her actions.
Yeah this was like watching a rapist or child abuser. It was hard to stomach. I really didn’t have a good time watching her do her thing.
Just watched this. Overall a good movie but the film’s score is distracting and IMO makes the viewing experience noticeably worse. The movie didn’t need every other scene to have generic synthwave playing…