what is going on to all my netflix fans out there and welcome back to my channel movie files elliott
back again with a brand new movie review and today we're discussing a new netflix thriller by the
name of windfall which has an amazing cast and by the time this video is out it will be available to
stream on netflix right now is it worth checking out well we're gonna break it all down here in
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cons were you on the edge of your seat were you left disappointed let's talk about it all
in the comments below so let's just jump right into the spoiler free review starting off with
what intrigued me to watch this film first and foremost i love a good thriller but this cast i
mean jesse plemons lily collins as well as jason siegel let's start off with jason who just to give
you a brief synopsis a pretty straightforward film and one location and mainly just three
actors you have this wealthy couple lily james and jesse plemons who go to visit their very
beautiful vacation home all to be surprised by them being robbed by jason siegel and jason mann
i've been a fan of his for a while i've always seen him in the comedy films i think of i love
you man i think of all the stuff he's done with john apatow like uh for getting sarah marshall
very funny guy but i really haven't explored the serious side of jason segal and i really enjoyed
his portrayal in this film he doesn't go by any particular name he's a complete stranger for the
most part of this film and just seeing him kind of navigate through this narrative he is in front of
these wealthy people he really doesn't have much of a backstory but you can get enough from jason's
performance and enough from his interactions with these two to kind of get an idea of why he's doing
what he's doing and kind of understand who he is as a person and i thought that he was probably
given the most out of the entire cast and i thought that he delivered for the most part
in being mysterious and being kind of leaving you on the edge of your seat is he truly a bad person
is he gonna do something to harm these people that he is taking advantage of i really enjoyed that
narrative that we got with jason again seeing him in something more dramatic versus what i've seen
him in the past which is more kind of comedic i enjoyed him and i thought that he did a good job
in the role and that's not to take anything away from lily collins who by the way that whole meme
of like i was today years old when i found this out i didn't know that was phil collins daughter
but either you know there i have been a fan of hers for a while she has a great relationship
with netflix whether it be with mank and obviously uh you know emily goes to paris she was solid in
this film i enjoyed her subtlety i enjoyed her kind of learning who she is in this relationship
that she's really not too happy with with jesse plemmons but i thought that she was fine but
mentioning her husband jesse clements he always knows that simon he's one of my favorite actors in
hollywood and i have to say i'll jump into this in my criticisms a little bit later but he was okay
he was okay i do applaud the performances more so than i do what they were given so i'll just leave
it at that and then going to my last point as far as positives this film kind of has a hitchcockian
type of vibe you know is jason siegel gonna do something to harm them if they don't listen to him
who's gonna maybe come up to the house to maybe distract this plan that he has at hand
why is he really there it's a it's an interesting mystery with a little bit of thrilling elements to
come much later in the film but i did i will say even though the journey was a bit boring at points
i was mostly engaged up into less against my criticisms this movie is quite boring and that
is a very broad vague thing to say but listen when i say when this film introduces the scenario
jason siegel's in their house he wants to get something from them but we really don't learn
why into much later in the film but up into that point it is a slog fest we're really just in
this house you can tell this was shot during the pandemic because literally we're in one location
there are four actors in total i won't reveal who the fourth person is but
we get a four small crew one confined space and and i normally like those type of stories
once they give me things to kind of latch onto i'm just sitting here watching wind farm like okay
pretty simple okay seen this before all right really don't care about the characters too much
because i'm really not learning okay oh that's pretty okay oh this person you're seeing all this
in the first and second acts but once you get to the third act and the film just kind of rushes to
the third act you just left sitting there like man good thing that was only an hour and 30 minutes
because uh i feel like i wasted a bunch of my time and it's really unfortunate because like
i mentioned jason single to me got the most to do in his role because he is the intruder he is
the stranger is he a bad guy is he going to do something to them he has the most to play with
but then that leaves lily james and jesse plymouth just to kind of sit there and we're just watching
them as a miserable couple as we see lily james isn't too happy with the relationship but we
really don't understand why besides just the surface level stuff that the film gives us that
jesse is just rich billionaire that just seems to not care about people even his loved ones
and that's pretty much we've seen that before what is new what is innovative what is creative
about that really nothing so i i hate to say it because again this cast is great
i like the hitchcockian vibes but ultimately when you get to that end result when you go to
that finish line you're just looking back like why did i just do that why did i just waste my
time watching all of this build up which leads to ultimately nothing is really unfortunate so
before i give you all my overall thoughts and let you know if it's worth checking out if you haven't
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overall windfall does have an intrigue in regards to what is going to happen who are these people
it's shot whale is competently made and has some solid performances but unfortunately the script is
very lackadaisical the end result the build up to absolutely nothing and once we get to the inline
they just rush to get there and at the end of the day just sitting there looking at yourself like
that was not a good movie so unfortunately i had high hopes for it but i'm gonna have
to give windfall a two out of five and if you ask me hey elliot i don't really have anything to do
this weekend is this something i should watch i'm gonna say no i think that there are other things
not only on netflix to watch but i just reviewed a film on amazon prime by the name of master
there are tons of other shows that you all can catch up with we got atlanta coming up re-watch
that like i'm doing so unfortunately this is one of those films where netflix just recently
upped its prices and i'm looking at my price on netflix like man if it wasn't for stranger things
you know ozark which is ending pretty soon and umbrella academy the witcher you know i'm excited
for a lot of stuff they announced like sandman i don't know how much longer i would have netflix
because these are the type of films that just makes you sit and be like this is where my money's
going towards so it sucks to say that because i love this cast but i don't think windfall was
that good but hey that's just my thoughts if you watched it and you loved it good for you explain
to me what was it that you loved about the film or if you were more like me and share them the same
sentiments let's talk about it in the comments i appreciate you all sticking to this point in
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