Amy's Fucket List

So many ridiculous things in this movie, like after collapsing while at work for a super discount store, getting a phone call saying you have glioblastoma with less than a week to live. Having had a coworker come in with that same diagnosis, stage 4 glioblastoma, live those last days with a what worse can happen attitude. From taking a baseball bat to the truck of a guy who cut her off, to smashing the phone of a lady always delaying the coffee shop line, living the life with no cares. It is so stupid at times is a movie that had me wondering what crazy thing will they come up with next. The shocking end is a reason to keep watching to the end.

Basically a revenge fantasy about common society annoyances - people who talk on the phone while in line and not paying attention when it is their turn to order, for example - but the premise and the payoff are both weak. The foes the movie presents are exaggerated, cartoonish and cliche. Another example - a bank might turn down your loan, but not with the contrived cartoony arrogance of the character portrayed here.

The acting, filming, everything, has the aesthetic of the non-sex parts of porn. You could record a high school play on your phone and have a decent chance that it would result in a better movie.

They blatantly steal from the "flair" jokes from Office Space, admit during the movie it is stealing that from Office Space, and then proceed to do nothing more interesting with the bit, they just do a poorer job of presenting the same thing.

I don't even understand other reviews here giving any credit to the acting. It is terrible. The whole thing sucks, the dialog is bad, the acting is bad, the plot is weak and dumb. It's just a handful of annoying behaviors and a person with (ha-ha, I guess?) a terminal illness having a no-holds-barred attitude against them. And everyone clapped.

So, so, dumb, and so poorly executed.

I'm annoyed and depressed having wasted part of my life seeing this. I don't usually write reviews, but I now feel it is my only salvation from this not-even-good-bad garbage. I'm annoyed that Amazon Prime Video even had this in its catalog for me to stupidly stumble into and think that it might be good. I'm depressed that I watched half of it before I started skipping over parts to get to the end, hoping the movie might save itself somehow. No, it is just dumb, it gets more dumb, and then it wraps it up in an unfunny, cringey, awkward, just weird out of nowhere dumb bow.

Save yourself. Stop reading reviews on this movie, run away, don't look back, and never think of this movie again. It is too late for me, but you can still go and live your life. Run.

The two leads were pleasant enough to watch. They have more talent than this movie deserves. Story just never really engaged me. I did hang in & watched til the end hoping for some kind of a positive ending. Did not happen. A few funny scenes, but more cringy ones than entertaining ones. Seems like it got to the end and the writer didn't know how to tie it up with an ending that was plausible, so they threw in a last minute "twist" that made even less sense than the rest of the movie. Seems like too many of these kinds of movies showing up anymore. Guess just about anyone can make a movie now days whether the story makes any sense or not. One last thing. Most of the actors in this cannot act at all and the writer must think that the use of the big "F" word makes their acting better. It doesn't.

You can make a movie about how crummy a single women's life is. You can make a movie about a terminal cancer diagnosis. You can make a movie about a bucket list. You can make a movie about hookup culture. You can make a sexual assault revenge movie. You can maybe make a movie with two or three of these plot points. But you cannot make a movie with all of them.....with a budget as low as this.......in seventy eight minutes.

This is a bad movie not because of all the above but the sheer hubris of a writer director that should know better. The direction and editing are weak, the acting is corny and if you think the viewing public will accept 'boss babe gets her revenge on a bunch of white guys' storylines anymore, then you are very much mistaken and will soon join the queue at the employment centre nearest you soon enough.

This is a sleeper that was well steered by its Director Mark S. Allen. Sometimes you encounter these little indie films coming out of backwater cities that create a sense of place. We have seen it with the Pacific Northwest where everything is rainy and grainy. We have seen it with the Deep South where everything is down home and steamy. What about Sacramento - a flat place with a river and a bridge?

This film uses lots of drone shots to get above the flatlands and give Amy's life some welcome dimension. It throws in some obvious CGI clouds above the horizon and let's us all resonate with goofy Zoom calls.

Once you get past all these low budget choices, what you are left with are the strength of the characters in this fable. First and foremost. Alyson Gorske as Amy has a winning attitude (similar to a young Jennifer Aniston) that makes you want to pull for her even as she faces insurmountable news about her mortality. Her sister Mary (played with empathy by Ms Taylor) inhabits her role much more than the average sidekick in a zany comedy. Mary springs into companionship when Amy's fate is revealed and, even though her first pregnancy is a topic to be considered, the movie keeps the focus on Amy and her final redemption. Finally, there is a roster of character roles that color this production upside, downside, left and right side. I had that same feeling of being introduced to funny people as I was watching the Princess Bride movie. Somehow the obvious lack of slickness works to propel the story along.