Matthew Allen

Very anti-climactic ending that feels like a slap to the face. Don’t waste your time. *SPOILER ALERT* When the Russian gangsters, lead by the son of one of Marla’s victims, appears in the film, it gives you hope that they will be killing Marla Grayson or otherwise end her criminal enterprise, freeing the elderly victims stuck in her prisons masquerading and retirement homes. I spent the next 90 minutes or so rooting for the gangsters and almost cheered when they nearly killed Marla and her accomplice and lover, Fran. Their murderous plot ultimately fails. Marla and Fran enact their revenge, killing what remains of Roman’s henchmen but fail to kill Roman himself. Roman awakens in a hospital only to realize he’s now caught in Marlas web, now a victim of her guardianship scheme. She asks for $10 million to relinquish him but he counter offers with a business partnership. Despite the 2 attempting to murder each other and Marla killing all of his henchmen and essentially holding his mother hostage. She agrees. She’s becomes the face of a large enterprise that continues to imprison and steal from the elderly under the guise of protecting them with guardianship court orders. She’s has some success spotlight interview on a TV show but suffers a fatal gunshot wound to the chest given to her by the son of one of her victims in the studio’s parking lot after her interview has concluded. By the end of the film, it feels as if there are only villains and victims in the movie and no hero because although she is dead, her company will continue to exist, ruining more and more lives making countless people suffer. It seems as though the only thing this movie accomplished was making people aware of the fact that this scheme currently exists in the united states and offers no call to action to put an end to it.