Inheritance

We love Simon Pegg, but this was a bad role choice, and, sorry Lily, but you were not cast well either. Lily is supposedly the DA for Manhattan, yet there is no evidence of her ability for deductive reasoning or keeping her cool in the face of a challenge. No ability to be objective and question things accordingly. She is weak, overly emotional and can't make an intelligent decision to save her life. So...DA for Manhattan? Yeah, right. Oh, and why keep that guy alive? And why hand over such a deep dark secret with no information? Why make it a mystery if she's supposed to carry on the secrecy? If the truth is to "stay buried" then why keep the evidence alive and then not give her the information she would need to manage through it? And why when you are left with such a dark secret would you not WAIT FOR THE DAMNED EVIDENCE YOU ASKED YOUR COP FRIEND FOR BEFORE LETTING THE GUY GO?! Whatever. It's a terrible script that makes no sense. Don't bother. Sorry Simon. Sorry Lily.

Lost count of how many actions the main characters could have taken to avoid the mayhem. How about an explanation from dad for why a man is chained up? A note on the shelves in the dungeon room even? How about showing a picture of Morgan to mom instead of asking her is she recognises a name? How about putting more police onto the job of finding any records? How about using your DA skills to know if someone is lying? Took me out of the movie. Sorry, can't give more than four stars.

It appears decent because it creates suspense that doesn't deliver, with serious plot holes that makes every actor unconvincing. They perform like it's a mega psychological thriller but it's just far fetched money drama. Did I mention plot holes?

Honestly - the trailer was much better than the movie. I think I just stopped believing anything about this movie when Lily Collins is the DA in a big city. Sorry, but I gotta say - horrible casting - she looks like she is in Elementary School...and come on, Simon Pegg? I love the man, but not in this role. Oh, I could break it down, but why bother?

Inheritance (2020) is a very basic thriller plot painfully stretched over almost 2 hours handled by the most dimwitted slasher-movie-meat characters you will ever see. Maybe it was even a slasher film repurposed as a thriller at some point. Every scene in this is as painful and slow as possible. Everything has to be discussed, even if it's completely irrelevant. The ending is disconnected from 80% of the stuff they set up in the film. The way it's shot it really feels like a video game cutscene, like a pre-mission GTA V dialogue where the characters discuss something they are about to do and then they just do it, but you still see and hear every line of dialogue, even if it serves no purpose whatsoever. By the time you fast-forward to the ending and they reveal the "big twist" that renders half of the film pointless, you won't probably care because you've seen this a million times (even though so many things in this make absolutely no sense).