Expected a good bit more

Rating: 4/10 (8 July 2020)

The movie tells you who the villain of the film is halfway through very clearly when the detective says "dogs tell you who good guys and bad guys are" followed almost immediately by them barking at Chris Evans. It was so painfully obvious I wrote it off as a clear red herring but nope....the obvious jackass with no redeeming qualities and the plot directly telling you he is the villain turns out to be the villain after all. Yay?
Also the main character is pretty obviously a horrible person who is very flawed yet the detective no less than 3 times tells her what a good person she is and how much she deserves the money. Plus the random weird jabs where all the evil family start talking about how much they love Trump and hate immigrants just really takes away from my ability to buy into this world. The method of attempted murder was half clever and even though the entire first hour of the movie has literally 0 bearing on the final plot it's actually the only enjoyable part of the film and is well shot. So while not a complete waste of time it's hard for me to reccomend it. The mystery leaves very little worth sleuthing out, the characters including the """good guys""" are all fairly unlikable and the theming is so shallow and weirdly contemporary that it's not a film that has enough substance to bother exploring.
A big disappointment as a murder mystery fan hoping for something to get me thinking and build some tension.