I Care A Lot – 4

This New York Times “Critics Pick” allegedly ” seesaws between comedy and horror,” but being neither funny nor scary, what is left? A cartoonish battle between an icy abuser of senior citizens and a Russian mafioso who exploits mules to traffic drugs. Do we care who wins or survives? Not really. There could be a bigger point of how the elderly are exploited by a corrupt, greed-driven system of nursing homes, conservatorships and oblivious courts, but that’s not the point here. In fact, the system survives, and all that stops the villainy is our lax gun control laws. We tried this movie to take a break from our TV series, but all it did was make us realize how much more we appreciated the real people of Spiral and Call My Agent.