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movie review - The Do-Over

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

This is an Adam Sandler movie. OK, let's do this.

The two main characters are losers and decide to fake their deaths in order to start again. With fake identities in hand, they head off to somewhere warm and slide into new lives. Not realizing that they're pretending to be recently murdered people, they quickly find themselves in trouble and don't understand the context.

Or that's what Sandler's character is having his friend believe. The reality is a bit different, and it's in that difference that so much of the trouble and context lies.

They went with some pretty over-the-top scenes in this thing, but the central plot holds and the characters and their outcomes are believable.

Recommended. For a night of mindless entertainment.