Review of I Care a Lot (2021) by Joelony — 06 Mar 2021

I promise I'm not review-bombing this. I watched it because my spouse wanted to watch it. It's just dumb. It ultimately turns into a "which sh*tbag can outsmart the other" with little thought to why I should even care. I don't mind entertainment with dislikeable characters, like Breaking Bad, when motivations, actions, and sequences are believable. This is not. Pike and Dinklage can both act, but I don't know how they delivered half of their lines without laughing. Suspension of all belief is a must in almost every scene.

I can watch many things that suspend reality, but if the core premise of your movie falls apart at scrutiny, most sequences become impotent. It's like a horror movie where they can easily escape the monster, but choose not to leave. Okay, I can get on board with that if there is at least a semi-good reason (Jaws) but this film is only filmed with reasons to not watch it.

Oh, and while they may have been trying to empower women, it just kind of makes women (and lesbians) look like terrible people. Kind of like Hollywood's history of typecasting villains with gay undertones (look it up). Personally I think we're in a "streaming gold rush" right now and they're all competing for content. We now have exhaustive lists, but the quality has been sharply dropping. This garbage is a perfect example.