Ella McCay

The movie is a hot mess that starts out slow with no truly likeable characters accept for her driver. Ella is so self-righteous its annoying. The rest of the cast where pretty much unnecessary. The ending while predictable was better the the first half of the movie. If you want to see wait until its on a streaming service.

A somewhat rear vision mirror look at mostly conservative smallish town US politics with rather caricaturish goodies and baddies and not enough blur between the two to be convincing. Visually appealing, good pace that didn't outlast its welcome despite cliched themes and a reasonably clean if not totally believable wrap up. Jamie Lee Curtis made the most of limited opportunities and Emma Mackey ranged from fair to pretty good in some scenes. I can think of far worse ways to spend two hours.

This film is all over the place... there isn't a coherent storyline that sticks. The jokes do not land either, was not funny in any way AT ALL. I was looking forward to this as the amazing Jamie Lee Curtis is in it as is another of my favourites Woody Harrelson. I think the actors struggle to make this plot (or lack of) work but as much as they try it just doesn't work. It is definitely not recommended. I don't score 4/10 often but this deserves the score I'm sorry to say. Have a great day.

Ella McCay boasts a great cast, but unfortunately they are cobbled together with a muddled script and directionless story to create a rather lacklustre movie.

Tonally, the film is a mess. Is it a comedy? A drama? A satire? Who knows. Certainly not the cast or crew, as it was just all over the place in this respect. The performances didn't make any sense in the context of the story, almost feeling like caricatures of what they were trying to do.

In terms of the story and script, I really don't know what point it was trying to make. It circled around a few points and made them very poorly, but there were just too many story threads to give anything much focus. Characters and plot threads came and went in the blink of an eye, and there was no unifying theme or plot line or direction to it all.

It was also highly frustrating that practically every character in this film was highly annoying. I just simply did not care about any of them and struggled to get invested in any way to them.

I just really don't know what they were thinking with this film. A bizarre mess.

This movie is so.... odd. It has some really good small pieces, and to be honest, there's the makings of a great movie here somewhere. But unfortunately it just doesn't coalesce. It feels like there were either major rewrites, or something seriously went down in the editing room.

At the end of the day, its biggest issue is that there's simply too many side plots going on. We have: Ella's career (which incorporates a couple of plot lines), her marriage, her brother, her father, her bodyguard... the list goes on. The brother could have been cut entirely (which is funny, given that what I think is the movie's best scene is with the brother), and the father plot line didn't add much either.

I think if the movie had cut a lot of the family side plots, refocused the movie to be about Ella wanting to get stuff done as a politician but being unable to (which is in the movie, but gets lost among the numerous plot threads) in addition to focusing on her marriage and the scandal, it would have been a far better movie.

It's not completely without merit, I think anyone giving it a 1 is exaggerating. As mentioned at the beginning, there's some really great individual scenes sprinkled in the movie. But overall it has very very deep flaws that really drag it down.