Film: Dangerous Lies
Starring: Camila Mendes, Jessie T. Usher, Jamie Chung, Cam Gigandet, Sasha Alexander, Elliott Gould
Director: Michael M. Scott
Rating: **
Reviewer: George Sylex
Overview - "Dangerous Lies” is about as conventional a title as you could nail to a riddle, however, this Netflix film is a bland thriller with an enticing set up followed by a consistent series of captivating advancements that keep us speculating as far as possible. Working from a cunning if every so often tangled screenplay by David Golden, director Michael M. Scott has formed an exemplary wake up call around two apparently great and keen people who settle on some stupid choices when covetousness and opportunity come thumping.
The Netflix film gears up after sweet, mindful Katie and her better half, who despises being poor, endure a robbery at the coffee shop where she works, she accepts another place as an overseer for a pleasant elderly person in a Chicago bequest. Despite working for Leonard for just four months, they develop close, and she's ready to find her significant other a line of work as a gardener. At the point, when Leonard dies, the couple is enjoyably astounded to become familiar with he's left his home (and a concealed trunk brimming with free money) to Katie. These sets off a chain of progressively full occasions that would send anybody yet Katie and Adam, clearly, running directly to the cops. Lamentably for them, a criminologist (Sasha Alexander) with nothing preferred to do over research the apparently common passing of a man with no family is watching them intently. Any likeness to the plot of Knives Out closures here.
I was very amped up for this film, when I considered the trailer, as it helped me to remember Knives Out. Notwithstanding, a few days before release, Netflix dropped a promotion video with Looper that should've been my first huge admonition sign, as it referenced that the executive and author have just done Hallmark motion pictures. Perilous Lies isn't anyplace close to the satire and virtuoso of Rian Johnson's Knives Out, nor is its cast anyplace close is stacked as the previous was with view biting ability.
The plot and content was not extraordinary true to form, and I state that as somebody who truly appreciates Lifetime thriller and Riverdale as their extravagance. The cast was fair to tolerable. None of them stood apart to me. Best case scenario their acting could be called useful, however none of them indicated the ability important to raise the content from the drama and buzzwords that hindered it. I saw Mendes as one-note and level, and her range to be genuinely restricted. Jesse T. Usher has accomplished staggering work in The Boys and is a genuine best in class entertainer, however even he was simply alright here. Oddly, veteran entertainer Elliot Gould is the most fragile connection here.
Final Word - Overall, the film is dull and horrendous, which scarcely allures us to make a passionate venture. At long last, Dangerous Lies is an alright film, best case scenario, however not so much worth one's time considering numerous other extraordinary mystery films out there.
