Review of The Unforgivable (2021) by Mrnicegaius — 07 Jan 2022

Well, it was somewhat emotional. I guess that's in some way positive, because for the most part it wasn't overdone.

But I really didn't like the sister plot twist. Killed it for me. All this decently written build up of a woman who faces the hard life during the rehabilitation process after a long prison sentence and then they throw it all out of the window with this nonsense. All the subplots tied to this jump out straight behind and are canceled immediately.

So now I am supposed to acknowledge it was her five-year-old sister all along who picked up the super heavy gun and shot the police officer who probably was even a friend of the family? Go away! That's unrealism galore and implemented just for the shocks and the sake of plot twist. They probably also wanted the foam at the mouth anti cop killer part of the audience to fully sympathize with Ms. "Waxface" Botox before the finish line by granting her some cheap purity award. Her getting betrayed and beaten up by the other fish workers and the happy action ending felt forced af too. Gave me the impression that they had been included just to get more in line with your average ever-repeating hollywood formula which the majority of people seems to prefer over thoughtful explorations of society for whatever reason.

It must be one of the stupidest decisions in cinematic history to abandon your little sister like this. Instead she is now traumatized by not knowing what happened and losing her only remaining trusted person at a very young age. Without anybody telling her, she might be tortured by nightmares for her whole lifetime. Furthermore, there was quite a big risk of her ending up in a mistreating foster family.

I would have liked the movie so much more if they would have sticked to the rehabilitation plot and really showed the depressing ostracization of people with a prison background. I am so tired of these forced last minute happy ends which ostensibly relativate and wave away most of what happened before. I need a filter on netflix to sift out all this dull stuff. If anything, then I get from this movie that keeping loaded guns around children is a really bad idea.