Now let me start off by saying I wanted to like this movie. I'm a huge fan of The Office tv series and seeing B.J. Novak (who was in The Office) was the star and director of this film got me excited. This film actually came out July of 2022 and I had never heard of it. I guess that should of told me something. But it got decent reviews from others, so because of that and Novak, I decided to give it a watch. Plus, it has Dove Cameron in it, who I had seen tons of times watching Liv and Maddie with my kids over the years. Then, there is Ashton Kutcher. Who, hasn't really had any good movies in a long time. So, I buckled in and decided to take 1 hr 47 min to see......
Novak who plays Ben in the movie is a writer from New York who finds out a girl he hooked up with a few times died. The girl's family thinks they were a serious relationship so they call him and talk him into coming down to the funeral in Texas. He begrudgingly goes and after talking to her brother sees an idea to make this whole thing into a podcast. Did she die of a drug overdose or was she murdered like her brother implied? The story goes on, a little slow to be honest, but I kept thinking it will all come together. I would say towards the end I was thinking that the movie wasn't too bad.. then came the ending. It was dumb. A decent story came down to this?? Didn't make sense to me.
So should you watch? Let me save you some time. If you are horribly bored and have watched everything else out there... then sure. But otherwise, I would say skip this one.
Out of 10 Popcorn Kernels, I give it a 3.