Vengeance (2022)
The new movie Vengeance premiered earlier this month on Amazon Prime and select theaters. Directed, Produced, Written and Starred in by B.J. Novak , follows a New York writer who comes to find a girl he was hooking up, Abby, had died of an opioid overdose in rural Texas. The family, under the influence that Ben (B.J. Novak) was actually her boyfriend, leaving him to fly to Texas under guilt. Upon arrival, the family is under the impression that Abby was murdered, not an OD. Ben takes this as an opportunity to make a story/podcast on finding who killed Abby. I was really looking forward to this movie premiering with not only Ryan from The Office , but Dove Cameron, and Ashton Kutcher are also in the film. It was very well done, but I have a few thoughts. Monologue galore. The entire film is basically a long monologue. A lot of words and thoughts where I felt I was watching, and then got lost and realized, wow. These people have been talking for a long freaking time. However...