I CARE A LOT
Cert 15 ★★★ On Amazon Prime now
Rosamund Pike is very good at being bad. After her devilish turn in Gone Girl, she’s back with a Golden Globe-nominated performance in a black comedy from writer-director J Blakeson.
She plays self-styled
“lioness” Marla Grayson, a psychopath, con artist and highly successful businesswoman. In this dark vision of modern America, these three attributes fit very snugly together.
As the founder and CEO of Grayson Guardianships, Marla seeks out elderly people with no family and big bank accounts. After bribing a doctor to
diagnose them with dementia, she then petitions a judge to make her their ‘ward’ so she can take control of their finances, lock them in a care home and bleed them dry.
Then she targets the wrong person. Effectively kidnapping Jennifer Peterson (Dianne Wiest) attracts the attention of Roman Lunyov (Peter Dinklage), a shadowy crime lord with a stake in her wealth.
Making a film with no one to root for is always a risky move. And this time, the gamble doesn’t quite pay off.
As black comedy was moved aside for a tense game of cat and mouse between two vile criminals, I found I didn’t care nearly enough.
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