YOU'VE BEEN SERVED

Rating: 3/10 (10 December 2019)

The reason this is rating high initially is because the commonality so many have with this season of life. The empathy many would feel with both couples plight will simply keep them watching.
Right from the beginning you can tell you are dealing with a lower budget Netflix movie not the spectacle of a studio production.
I almost tapped out of the long dialogue scenes in the first act, getting comfortable with the cliche feminist lawyer was not witty or clever.
The acting was forced in so many scenes, and the initial stages of the relationship breakdown were virtually ignored and a fatal flaw, this coupled with the amicable conversation right after a monstering by both lawyers in the courtroom was just a failure in the believability of the script.
What you are left with is sequences of raw emotion that force you to pick a side down gender lines, which was the only thing that really held the plot together which was nothing more than another custody battle brought to life.
The redeeming moment of a Brady bunch all learning to live together is a feel good resolution that must have taken 3 minutes to think of. I understand if this is enough for you to rate this film high after the real life roller coaster that so many of us have been on but as a lay film critic, I really expect more.
Sorry x