La nuit finit toujours par tomber

Probably the one thing a filmmaker doesn't want to hear about his or her film is indifference. If you love something or hate something, that means you care about it and it incites some type of passion. If you watch something and say "meh" it is neither. If you've read a couple reviews or a logline, you know what the film is about. Similar plot to other movies you've seen, but this one looked better. The trailer looked exceptional. I love the actors, particularly Vanessa and Jennifer, and was looking forward to it. And then.....meh. There's a scene toward the end where the actresses look at each other and you can hear the director in the background saying "tell the story with your eyes," and you get long stares. At the end of the day, I didn't buy the lead's dopey decisions and none of it was realistic but there were a couple well-paced entertaining action scenes. But I didn't buy any of it. Your mileage may vary. Meh.

6. Stars.

Something about this film is off. At times I found myself counting the minutes until it was over, and that's never a good sign. At other times it was riveting enough to capture my curiosity. On the other hand, it's so overdone a plot these days, same story I've seen so many times. It's about a woman who temporarily mis-places her sense of right and wrong, because her sole focus is on avoiding eviction and losing her Down Syndrome brother to the system.

This actress is iconic and her acting in this is good, but the movie is bad.

Her mom is a deadbeat, and wow is that actress soooooo good at playing a loser. I've seen the actress play the bum before, but this takes the cake. What little screen time the mother has, she really leaves a bad taste in your mouth.

So back to the story. Our protagonist is having a lot of difficulties making ends meet, we are shown her true colors in that she's a high class "working girl", balancing two other jobs, one at a bar and one in a factory; and even with her extraordinary good looks, she is still not able to make ends meet. And yet, as we watch her swindle her way through the night, and then spiral deeper and deeper into some really dangerous and highly illegal activities (we are talking hard-core prison time), you'd think it would be a fun ride...nevertheless, this film fundamentally fails to entertain.

This is one of those films. No, it's not glossy, its meant to be grim and low-budget, their lives are hard and the tone reflects that. The people complaining that her spiral is unrealistic have clearly never been truly desperate for long enough.

A few quibbles, but overall a movie that is far better than the rating suggests.

It felt real, it certainly was no Hollywood story and certainly no Hollywood ending.

It's one of the best movies I've ever seen on Netflix and they sure have had some stinkers on there lately.

Vanessa Kirby and most of the supporting actors did a brilliant job of making the whole thing believable.

Don't know what's with all the negative nellies, cool movie. Great acting by Kirby and her supprt, especially by Gottsagen who plays her special needs brother. One girl on mess of a night, a fun watch. Riveting and unexpected twists and turns with every next scene. Humorous as well with many odd interactions between characters.