30/03/25: "Dying was their first mistake"
"Charlie McMillan (David Spade) is a loser who bumps into his old, cooler friend Max Kessler (Sandler) ... Stuck in a rut ... Kessler ... convinces McMillan to come hang out on his yacht one weekend ... He blows up the boat, enabling the two to fake their own death. Won’t authorities look for bodies? They will but, as it turns out, Kessler doesn’t work for the FBI – he is a coroner, and had access to two age-appropriate corpses that no one will miss ... In a second-act reveal it’s discovered that our two doofuses have stumbled into an enormous corporate conspiracy to repress a miracle cancer drug. No amount of shouting “do over!” at the screen can turn the plot around, as it suddenly becomes a quasi-serious thriller to save mankind. With Sandler and Spade. On a direct-to-Netflix budget." (Jordan Hoffman, The Guardian)
GIVE ME THE FACTS!
- Starring: Amy Schumer, Adam Sandler, David Spade, Paula Patton, Kathryn Hahn, Nick Swardson, Catherine Bell, Jackie Sandler
- Directed by: Steve Brill
- UK release date: May 27th 2016
- Trivia tidbit: "Adam Sandler plays the character Max Kessler. A real-life New York City accountant named Max Kessler bears a strong resemblance to Sandler and had met with one of his associates. The two would later meet for the first time after Kessler accepted an invitation to the film's premiere."
- Rich's rating: 3 out of 5