I didn’t have a single clue on what this one entailed, so it was a kind of refreshing feeling when this simple, tense story of a kid with parents who are hiding something went a little off the rails. It wasn’t too much of a change, but there was enough pay off that I didn’t feel like I wasted the 90 minutes I spent waiting for something to happen.
The acting performances were fine, Anthony Starr is a forever-villain now, so every time he talks I expect someone to die, and Lizzy Caplan was unhinged enough to keep me guessing. The kid was…well, a kid. Good nuff.
Not much of an emotional investment is needed to enjoy this one, and the only real problem I had was the ending, which for some reason decided to be ambiguous and unresolved for a movie that stayed pretty straight forward throughout.
3 out of 5