Of the four movies I saw on Wednesday, this was my least favorite. It stars Will Ferrell as a man who, in the span of about four minutes, loses his job, his wife, his house, his car, basically his life, and has to try to get things back in order, with the help of a young neighbor boy, and new neighbor Rebecca Hall. Well, kinda. The movie feels really inorganic (not to mention, I tend not to enjoy movies where everything that can possibly go wrong seems to, in a very short amount of time, leaving the viewer with a sense of hopelessness and disbelief that things could actually work out) and while the acting (Ferrell, Hall, Laura Dern, and Christopher Jordan Wallace, the son of the late Notorious B.I.G.) is terrific, it falls under the weight of an impossible story. A little disappointing, especially since it fell a little short of expectations.
Score: 5.5/10
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