Film Review – The Family Plan

“The Family Plan” (not to be confused with the recent “Family Switch”) is being marketed as a comedy for, well, family audiences, with promotion emphasizing acts of bonding and cute baby reactions to entice viewers. The actual feature isn’t actually built for children, with director Simon Cellan Jones and screenwriter David Coggeshall (“The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia”) offering a coarse action comedy following the survival instincts of an ex-assassin trying to protect his loved ones from a team of killers looking to eliminate him. There’s nothing gentle in the picture, and it’s mostly a painful sit, with Coggeshall presenting random acts of violence without much of a story to provide dramatic investment, and Jones (a television vet) supplies generic stunt sequences, hoping blasts of brutality might distract from dismal comedic interactions, which this endeavor is chock full of. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com