"Kajillionaire"
Old Dolio Dyne (Evan Rachel Wood) is a shiftless, aimless girl drifting with her con artist parents Robert and Theresa (Richard Jenkins, always nice to see, and Debra Winger, yay!) as they perform the most penny pinching, petty crimes to get by. During one con, they meet Melanie (Gina Rodriguez) and rope her into their scheme...
I did not like this.
It's got the early noughties indie scene stamped all over it: the long bright daytime shots, understated but all too repeated themes and parallels, not much happening, and dialogue mumbled by assholes. It's not incompetently made, I just didn't give two shits.
Old Dolio (named after a lottery winning homeless man, how quirky, so that Robert and Theresa, whose names I had to look up despite being main characters, would be written into his will) is just not particularly interesting or fun or enjoyable to follow. Her mumbling doesn't help. The movie strives for quirky, but never really gets there, and its depth is undermined by a meandering pace and fucking terrible (to us anyway, my fiancee and I both clocked out at the exact same moment) scene in a toilet.
Gina Rodriguez is the token highlight, getting the few laughs to be had, and injecting some colour and personality into the mix, pardon the pun. I want to see her do more stuff.
There's a fairly good scene at the house of an old man which leans into its nice, odd indie sensibilities; but the film is shiftless and bland as a con-artist heist movie, dull as a character piece, and then just sort of peters out... It's two movies slapped together.
As great as it is to support women in cinema, this was not my cup of tea.
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