A patriarch of a wealthy and powerful family suddenly passes away, leaving his daughter with a shocking secret inheritance that threatens to unravel and destroy the family.
One begs the question; are inheritances returnable? They should be. Especially this one. A privileged but “nice” family. Prestigious and influential father’s sudden death. Daughter overly worried about “was he proud of me” while she is a district attorney in New York. Really?? Then the reading of the will and all hell breaks loose in the most totally unpredictable ways. Audiences may stay on board for a while, but when the plot begins to go totally wonky, say when the daughter discovers a bunker in her backyard inhabited by a man with a really long, really bad wig for the past thirty years. Really? Seriously?
The unraveling of this outrageous scenario is what comprises the rest of the story. Of course, with a serious twist thrown in at the end and left to hang. I have to admit for just a bit I was intrigued. And the daughter’s first trip down into the bunker, accompanied by heart-thumping bass music, was a bit scary. Although there were lots of twists left to come, they proved to be either lame or predictable or both.
The production is inundated with flaws, both technical and story-wise, and the script and the acting are overly dramatic. Scenes that ended one way took up again with actors or props in different places. It was amateurish, to say the least. The best acting was Simon Pegg in his last scene where he did manage to wrestle pure evil into his character. It’s a long two hours to get there, however. Two stars rather than one because some might find it to be just a little bit scary and psychologically thrilling. Somewhere. Really. Seriously.
Available on Digital HD July 6th and on DVD July 13th
