Further proof that many people let media types tell them what's good.

Rating: 5/10 (5 April 2020)

Once again, I find myself questioning 3 things 1) the entertainment industry's media machine which seems to be growing further and further away from 'the people' 2) the willingness of an army of sheep to fall into line and 3) the veracity of many online reviews.
The caustic social commentary is irksome and tired, i.e., hardscrabble, noble poor struggle to survive while self-indulgent rich people tread on them. This has been covered in literature and film countless times and often better than this. In this case the poor family are (with the exception of the daughter) listless and dim, not at all sympathetic. The fact they ruin the lives of two people who actually do their jobs is forgivable apparently. In contrast the unlikable rich are in fact a clever entrepreneur and his wife who, though not smart, dotes on her children and wants nothing but the best for them. Not sure why the somehow deserve to be exploited by a family of indolent grifters. And apparently the father's distaste for poor grooming is deserving of homicide. Great.
In any case the movie is predictable except where it introduces 'deus ex machina' plot contrivances.
The finale is idiotic. The father is desperate to drive his kid to hospital. The car keys are under a dead man's body. While attempting to move the body he notices that the man has body odor and pauses to, in a particularly demonstrative fashion, hold his nose and roll his eyes. Riiiight.
Throw in a little bit of tastelessness (really, if you find a pair of panties do you immediately sniff them?) and you've got the makings of a rather tedious and somewhat offensive 2 hours of mediocre movie making.