This has to be one of the actually worst movies in it’s genre...actually one of the worst movies I’ve ever watched (and I saw Showgirls in the theatre).
You actually want Ben Affleck’s character to die...in fact you might actually want to die rather than watch the end. If you think it will get better if you hang with it, you are wrong. All five characters making the same decision in the end for a family they don’t know, also doesn’t make sense. Someone would have made a different decision. And just the carrying that dead weight and switching it out for dead presidents would have made more sense since the guy was the cause of everything that went wrong.
There are many ways to fix the script.
100’s of ways to make it more interesting, but they chose to make it boring and unbelievably, but with great cinematography and 75 million dollars.
I tell you what Netflix.
Give me 10% of what you spent on that script. I’ve got a killer heist, and I’m a national award winning playwright.
Screw it, give me 1% for production, and I’ll make you a killer film. You cover the cost of film festivals.
And I’ll make you a better film that that POS, with a good cast. I’ll pull in your Yalies and Sundance alum (I am one).
I’ll even sit with you for 15 minutes and tell you how that script could have been fixed.
But that, is up there with Plan 9 From Outer Space. Give me 750k. I have a script, that I can shoot on a minimal budget, that just requires 5 good actors, and 1 primary location.
I’m a google away.