A winning lottery ticket unleashes complete and utter greed-fueled homicidal madness against the winner in a dystopian near-future Los Angeles.
I
just watched JACKPOT! (2024) on Amazon Prime. Think IT'S A MAD, MAD,
MAD, MAD WORLD set in a dystopian near-future Los Angeles, with
Awkwafina as Latie Kim, a wannabe actress who's the winner of a
ten-billion dollar lottery, and the wrinkle in the rules of the game is
that she has to make it to sundown to win the loot, but it's open season
on her until then, as the person who kills her before sundown wins the
lottery prize. Thus, the entire city loses its collective mind and literally
every adult person is out to kill her. Pursued by hordes of
greed-crazed maniacs, armed with pretty much anything they can grab, our
heroine tries to survive a citywide relentless gauntlet of homicide
with a mile-wide target on her back and her location tracked and
broadcast by a drone. Her only chance of survival is the aid of Noel
(John Cena), a hulking badass whose profession is keeping lottery
winners alive so they collect on the prize.
It's
a ridiculous movie, punctuated with endless mayhem and chases, and as
such it's a fun enough live-action cartoon. I usually cannot stand
Awkwafina, but I really enjoyed her in this, and the same can be said of
Simu Liu as Louis Lewis, a rival professional protector of lottery
winners who has a history of bad blood with nice guy Noel. John Cena is
as lovably goofy as ever, and he solidly delivers with both the comedy
and the ass-kicking.
Not a classic, but definitely worth a watch.
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