A Simple Favor is the latest in a long line of movies to be woefully mismarketed. Conventional trailers and commercials for the latest Paul Feig directorial effort try to portray the feature as being in the vein of recent financially lucrative Fall thrillers like
The Girl On The Train and
Gone Girl, but
A Simple Favor is far different than those two movies. Instead of being a straightforward dramatic thriller,
A Simple Favor is instead a movie that is to loopy thrillers what
Rampage was to big monster movies, a big-budget star-studded homage to that just revels in all kinds of trashy twists and "Gotcha!" shock moments. Also like
Rampage, A Simple Favor is super fun to watch.
