20 Worst Movies Of 2016 (So Far)
1. Mother's Day
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on you. Fool me three times, take away my cinema-going privileges.
Like Valentine's Day and New Year's Eve before it, this Holiday Event movie seems to think that casting lots of recognisable people and releasing to coincide with the holiday named in the title is literally all you need to do to make a film. There's no need to make characters likeable, or to write a script that goes anywhere in any meaningful way, or which seeks to enrich the audience at all: just market it really cynically and Bob's your uncle.
Mother's Day is an offensive film in the worst possible way: it goes through the motions of being a real film, looks like it cost a reasonable amount of money and has lots of faces you recognise, but it's provocatively hollow. It's a lie of a film, manipulative and soulless, while simultaneously pretending to be a celebration of mothers. It just doesn't try, and unfortunately, it's probably only a matter of time before we see Labour Day, Thanksgiving and Pay Day bloat this unwelcome franchise even further.
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