James Thomas

Sorry. I don't buy it. Carl Sagan debunked all of this alien visitation stuff many years ago and, to me, his reasoning still holds true. For aliens to visit us from other planets, star systems, solar systems or even galaxies they must somehow be able to overcome light speed limitations and time dilation effects at a minimum. We have been looking for them for as long as I have been alive and listening for them for at least as long and to date we have nothing but grainy photos, first person obduction accounts, and government conspiracy theories as proof of their existence. It would be pretty cool if we actually were visited by extraterrestrials but, for some reason, in spite of the fact that they would have absolutely nothing to fear from us because of the obvious technological superiority they would have over us, they have not bothered to introduce themselves to us.

I am embarrassed that I actually watched this abomination to the end. What I thought was going to be a "dark comedy" - at least according to the description on Netflix - was anything but. It was gut-wrenchingly difficult to watch such blatant evil perpetrated on senior citizens by just about every person or entity associated with the plot - including but not limited to - a senior citizen center, the staff of the center, the court system, the legal system, the caretaker system, the medical system, and, of course, the corporate system. In some perverse way, the Russian Mafia came off as a bit more human than all the rest of the cast. I guess I kept watching to see if somehow some semblance of comedy might just slip through, but if it did I never saw it. Then I kept watching to see if perhaps the main evil "caretaker" and her henchwoman might just get their comeuppance, but no, instead she became fabulously wealthy and revered as a billionaire CEO. Then, at the very end the writers decided to at least try to put a positive spin on all the evil that they unleashed by offing the billionaire caretaker by the very person that they started the movie with and then ignored for the rest of the movie. I guess the days when you could watch movies that would make you think deeply, feel good, laugh, care about the characters, or at least make you feel that they would help you escape from all the evil and BS that you have to deal with all your life are not worth filming anymore - at least insofar as this "dark comedy" is concerned. Please do yourself a favor and watch something else - preferably something that wouldn't make you feel as bad as this one made me feel.