The highest compliment I can pay this film is that it does actually feel like a movie. It's the first movie of its kind that I've seen where I would believe the people making it had read and followed a book on screenwriting. I mean, it's a low bar, but they did clear it.
This has been described often as being like a throwback to an early 2000s Sandler film, and I was actually surprised that this description wasn't just some sort of hype to get you to watch 2 hours of low effort lecturing. I didn't really find it that funny, but there is a structure to the script (to the point of being formulaic, but still). The characters each have a game. The performances are for the most part passable, with some credit to Boreing for being able to pull off the lead, down on his luck, everyman. It just looks and feels like an actual movie, and I have seen low budget fare on streaming that is made more incompetently.
I think the messaging of the film is kind of muddy. Is it offensive? Well, I think the fact it exists to advance this dangerous political ideology is... but honestly almost none of the jokes or writing really is. This is really where the comparisons to Sandler hit, because I think you will find as much in both places. Which, this being more of a message/satire/conservative film that is wearing its intentions on its sleeve, than trying to pass it off as just mainstream 'this isn't political/this is how it is'... is preferable, maybe? It's really not as mean-spirited of a film as I expected (not that it isn't mean-spirited). And the climax of the film - removing all context, just taken for what it is - I do have to begrudgingly admit, was kind of cute
It was a bit of a weird experience to sit through. It's not particularly thoughtful or original, but it also isn't My Son Hunter or Left Behind.
This has been described often as being like a throwback to an early 2000s Sandler film, and I was actually surprised that this description wasn't just some sort of hype to get you to watch 2 hours of low effort lecturing. I didn't really find it that funny, but there is a structure to the script (to the point of being formulaic, but still). The characters each have a game. The performances are for the most part passable, with some credit to Boreing for being able to pull off the lead, down on his luck, everyman. It just looks and feels like an actual movie, and I have seen low budget fare on streaming that is made more incompetently.
I think the messaging of the film is kind of muddy. Is it offensive? Well, I think the fact it exists to advance this dangerous political ideology is... but honestly almost none of the jokes or writing really is. This is really where the comparisons to Sandler hit, because I think you will find as much in both places. Which, this being more of a message/satire/conservative film that is wearing its intentions on its sleeve, than trying to pass it off as just mainstream 'this isn't political/this is how it is'... is preferable, maybe? It's really not as mean-spirited of a film as I expected (not that it isn't mean-spirited). And the climax of the film - removing all context, just taken for what it is - I do have to begrudgingly admit, was kind of cute
It was a bit of a weird experience to sit through. It's not particularly thoughtful or original, but it also isn't My Son Hunter or Left Behind.