It is very seldom that a fascinating movie trailer turns out to be a surprisingly good movie, A Simple Favor, is one of those rare movies.
It is categorized as a thriller yet it feels much more black humor comedy, the cast includes Blake Lively, Anna Kendrick and Malaysian hottie, Henry Golding, who by now everyone knows from his title role in this summers sleeper hit, Crazy Rich Asians. Technically Henry shot A Simple Favor before Crazy Rich Asians but as it so often happens the movie’s studio, Lionsgate, slated it for a later, fall release.
The atmosphere is set from the beginning with a sexy French soundtrack filled with tunes that puts in the certain headspace the storyline has an easy task of manipulating us.
At the center we find two unlikely women becoming besties at a very faithful at the school. You smell immediately something bad is going to happen… but how it will all end is really a surprise, for a change without the cliche ending you expect.
A Simple Favor is a great date night movie, and although its almost two-hours long it really passes by in a flash.
I give it a THUMPS UP!