Film Review – A Simple Favor

I’m sure Paul Feig wanted a change of scenery. This is the man who tried to reboot “Ghostbusters” a few years ago with a new cast, treading on sacred ground armed with a massive visual effects budget and a threadbare screenplay, trying to make his brand of make-em-up comedy fit into a fantasy spectacular. The experiment didn’t quite work for audiences, and Feig took a lot of heat for his creative choices, leading him to step away from blockbuster ambitions and tackle the beach read mystery of “A Simple Favor.” Smaller in scale and lighter with improvisations (the riffing remains to a smaller degree), the picture tries to make sense of Darcey Bell’s 2017 novel, which strived to get in on “Gone Girl” mania and deliver its own swirling storm of low impulse control and abrasive personalities, while twists are meant to tie the whole thing together. I’m all for Feig getting out of the funny business, but “A Simple Favor” remains a very broad creation, which doesn’t inspire secretive business this type of entertainment requires to remain surprising and seductive. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com