Thursday, 18 February 2021

VOD: The Rental (dir: Dave Franco, 2021)

"You guys don't find this creepy at all?"

Dave Franco's foray into directing (and co-writing the screenplay) is on very safe tried-and-trusted territory with this generic potboiler thriller, as two couples spend the weekend at a seemingly-idyllic cliffside rental house where all turns out to be not as perfect as it seems.  There is a grinding inevitability at every stage, with Dan Stevens outperforming everyone from the mediocre material.  Whilst there is nothing really bad about the film, but there is little that lifts the film above average at any point. 
 

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