Inheritance (2020)
2020
111 Minutes
A patriarch of a wealthy and powerful family suddenly passes away, leaving his wife and daughter with a shocking secret inheritance that threatens to unravel and destroy their lives.
User Review
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I have be upfront with you guys: I really wanted to like “Inheritance”.
Similar to Truth or Dare, it took something relatively simple on the surface and made an interesting concept out of it and on top of that, it had a decent cast that made the best out of what they had, slick cinematography and editing, some scenes were more suspenseful than others thanks to some pacing and set designs and even it’s messages, promoting importance of family and unconditional support with respect to family, even if it means lying and covering up lies, crimes, and misdeeds, were essentially intriguing. But the decent premise slowly but surely devolves into a mediocre psychological would-be thriller filled with plot holes that don’t add up, storyline elements and trinkets that require you to suspend your disbelief a milli-step too far and an execution that waits far too long to embrace the potential of its premise. Not to mention it doesn’t take a genius to pinpoint how illogical the whole situation sounds; now, premises like these don’t have to hold together in our world, so long as we believe it will hold together in theirs but the point is if a movie has a premise/plotline this nutty, it has to sustain its own logic and make sense of itself even if we can’t understand it.
Now I can’t necessarily blame anyone in particular for how this movie turned out; I think it was just a matter of miscommunication as far as what it wanted to be and how it wanted to go about going across with that vision. It might’ve hit a fun note for some people but it just didn’t work for me.0 member like this review.
