Inheritance

Silly, but not in a good way. Unlikeable characters; poor dubbing in which the English words don't always make sense. I know it's supposed to be played for laughs, but how stupid is it at the beginning when family members are racing each other to get to the house, and even though they're about 1/2 mile apart they're driving on the wrong side of the street and swerving from side-to-side with no other car in sight?

I guess it's a mystery but not very compelling. Family interaction, in which you can't decide which family member you hate the most; I watched it while reading a book. At least the book was good.

This movie gets a bad wrap but I actually enjoyed it quite a lot. I thought it was very creative, and innovative to combine mystery with comedy, and I laughed at the absurd of every situation. I like the exaggerated style of the characters. The plot is quite unpredictable, and that's precisely why it makes it so interesting for me. I also like the message the uncle was trying to teach the family, of the importance of family union rather than money. It is fun if you want to watch something light hearted, where you don't feel you are losing neurons while you watch it (what happens with some more famous American comedies). I had a good time.

Plot

After the death of eccentric inventor Jan Peszek, a family gathers to inherit his fortune. Unexpectedly, he prepares a last game to test their reconciliation and teamwork.

Cast

Not familiar with anyone involved however Joanna Trzepiecinska was great here.

Verdict

I'm not sure how I got around to watching this, it was my pick for movie night and I was rather tired and eager to get started.

Immediately I saw charm, everything looked fantastic and the house that this is set in? Magnificent. It came across quirky, goofy (In a good way) and I was curious where it was going to go.

Well let's be clear this is a family film and certainly not a competent murder mystery. It's hard to pigeon hole, but if forced I'd simply say it's a comedy but simply not a very funny one.

The characters are mostly annoying, the quirkiness only goes so far and the payoff is so lackluster it's hard to forgive and that's assuming you can get over how silly the entire premise is anyway.

Inheritance is a harmless watch, but expect it to slip your mind in mere moments never to return.

Rants

The best thing to come out of this is I at least got another film added to my Top 10 Polish movies list, because at time of writing I still only have 4! It also broke my Top 10 2024 movies list as well, but considering how bad this year has been thus far it's really not surprising!

The Good

Certainly has a charm Joanna Trzepiecinska That house! Want, need, desire

The Bad

It's all rather silly Characters are annoying and un-engaging for the most part Flat finale.

We started watching this and during the beginning of the film, we had reservations about continuing, or just watching something else. It was just cheap comedy and maybe the acting wasn't very good, though, not sure how much of the dubbing had a part of it. We pressed on and it did in fact get better! The movie was generally a generic film, but it did have a couple unique things to it, and with the whole premise as a whole, it had amazing potential to be a classic with sequels in the making. I think it just fell a little shirt with a deeper story, characters, lore, and production. All in all, it could be much better, and I'm sad it's not cause there's a great base layer there, but as far as something to watch, it provided some decent entertainment!

I just finished watching this. It was fine. It wasn't good or bad.

It's a movie that you finish on Netflix and don't really want to give it a thumbs up or thumbs down. It was just mediocre.

There were some cute moments, but it was never really funny.

There was a mystery kind of, but it was very badly done. There were no clues or set up so when you find out what happened in the end you just kind of shrug. Which was disappointing.

It was supposed to be a mystery comedy, and it's not funny and the mystery was lackluster, so all in all it wasn't a good movie.

The characters were likeable enough and the games were cute, but nothing was good enough to make you care about anything that happened.