I Care a Lot
2020
**
Director: J Blakeson
Cast: Rosamund Pike, Peter Dinklage, Eiza González, Chris Messina, Dianne Wiest, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Macon Blair, Alicia Witt, Damian Young, Nicholas Logan
Marla Grayson, a ruthless conwoman, manipulates the courts to gain legal guardianship over wealthy and vulnerable elderly people, who she then sedates and locks away in an assisted living facility. One day she exploits the wrong person's mother. J Blakeson's caper story is overlong, extremely cynical, and entirely inhabited by characters who have no redeeming features. The premise shows some initial promise, but I gave up on the film after the first 30 minutes due to complete lack of credibility. Everything comes too easily for Marla, who appears to be a superwoman. Her nemesis, on the other hand, is a stupid, ineffective, and very small Russian mob moss, played by Peter Dinklage. Despite all of this, however, Rosamund Pike follows Gone Girl with another deliciously nasty performance.
