"The Privileged" is one of those films that depends upon ridiculous actions of the main characters to keep the plot moving. A young lawyer and his wife go to the guy's boss' lake house in a desperate attempt to save his job. What transpires at the lake house would destroy anyone's life for good. While the film is entertaining overall, what transpires borders on the absurd. Start with a character basically being fired by his boss one minute, then invited to the boss' lake house an instant later. Continue with the two main male characters essentially rubbing down each other's wives together while they sip cocktails. I mean, the young lawyer's wife (pregnant) just met the other couple only hours earlier and she's lying across the boss' lap in the skimpiest of dresses after dinner with him rubbing down her bare legs and thighs, while her husband gives his boss's wife a massage across the room? Seriously, where does that happen? A man, disgruntled because the rich couple ran his family out of business and took their land, knocks on their door at night alone unarmed to confront them and-do what exactly? Beat them up? Have dessert with them? Or, maybe just to get killed so the whole movie has tension and a plot. Oh, this is before things really get ridiculous. This is a film that could have been so much better with just an ounce of reality; instead, it is really a total farce.
Review of The Privileged
