The Privileged

The plot reads well. Lawyers, class systems and land rights culminating in a big dispute and then death. Sadly the plot isn't acted out or crafted so well. The film is mundane, the actors are unknown relatively and as usual the women just do what the big bad men say because "Women are hysterical" and big bad guy "Preston will take care of everything". Which may have worked in the 90s although a film made then would have tried to captivate an audience better. This is boring drivel with sexist and lazy writing at best. Does a person get shot? Yes and you wish it were the rich douche bag Preston well atleast I did because hes an awful selfish elite sexist bastard. So one couple is caught up in this madness and really should have left but Richard wanted to stay when really him and his wife Tara should have never gone there to begin with.

I humbly disagree with "We Make Good Beer". Although this is not a classic movie it is a good movie and much better than some of the drivel that comes out of Hollywood etc. The story got me as the mess the young couple got into gradually got progressively worse. The ending is not your typical "all is well" ending and that alone stands it apart from most movies.

The movie filmed in Sudbury has four main characters who interact revealing personality weaknesses in definitely three of the four and the fourth finally is caught in the web of self-destruction.

Canada has great acting talent, obviously glorious locations to film at, great actors and great production companies.

"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.

This movie is awful, I wasted an hour and half with horrible acting, unbelievable plot and situations. Had a viewer not read the details, nothing about this movie synced up. The whole dinner scene, totally ridiculous! There was just so many holes in the plot. Sam Trammell, shame on you. We expect more, I guess I do have spoiler alert, in no way shape or fashion does this movie hit the mark. I debated on 1 or 2 stars but the ONLY thing about this movie worth watching for is the scenery- I even tried to Google where it was filmed as well as where it was supposed to take place. Good luck tbis movie is so bad and there is another movie with same title. WASTE OF TIME, this review, yeah , there is a 600 minimum character limit. I hope viewers read this so they don't waste the time.

I enjoyed this Canadian film about a lawyer, Richard, who has messed up and likely to lose a major client who is invited to visit his boss, Preston, and his wife at their island retreat with his wife, in an attempt to resolve the situation and save his job. As soon as he arrives on the island his boss who has come to meet him is in an angry confrontation with a local man. We soon learn that a local family, the Lynley's, were in financial difficulties and Preston had acquired their land for nothing. In the evening while enjoying food, wine and wife swapping their is a knock at the door and this is where the trouble escalates. The Lynley's are set on revenge for the land grab, so clearly there will be some violence soon. While not a suspensful film it moves along at pace, so never becomes boring and I was never quite sure how it would end.