Capitalizing on the same success as 2014’s incredibly meticulous one Girl and 2016’s cluttered and underwhelming Girl on a Train comes Paul Feig’s (Bridesmaids, The Heat) adaptation of A Simple Favor, an adaptation of a 2017 novel by the same name. Unfortunately, that is what this movie feels like to me…a crappy knockoff with two Hollywood A-listers that was made hastily with a less than believable story by a director who was clearly over his head with this genre. This movie was preposterous in its concept and was only topped in absurdity by its cursory character development and inability to clearly define a genre, which leaves us asking as many questions about the movie’s style as it does its other elements.
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