Inheritance is a thriller film directed by Vaughn Stein. The plot revolves around Lauren (Lilly Collins), discovering that her recently deceased father has been keeping a man locked in a bunker on their property. She decides to get to bottom of this dark family secret.
Why cast Patrick Warburton, a veteran actor to have a nothing two-minute cameo? Warburton play’s said deceased father, who dies at the very beginning of the film, and doesn’t really come back in anything meaningful way, they could easily have had Lauren find another tape to have more of him, but no. It is a huge missed opportunity.
You have seen this film before, there is nothing original about it at all. There is a twist towards the end of the film, I won’t tell you what it is, but I bet you can guess what it is. I was hoping when I put this on that maybe the filmmakers were going to do something interesting with the man locked in the basement concept, but they don’t. It’s all just very average.
The one pro I will give this film is that Simon Pegg is good as the man in the basement Morgan Warner. I enjoy seeing Pegg experiment with playing darker characters that are more outside of his wheelhouse and this is an example of that. I thought even though the way they took his character was super obvious that Pegg still managed to completely nail the role and be captivating whenever he was on-screen
Overall, deeply generic and played out entirely as expected
Pros.
Simon Pegg is giving it his all
Cons.
They waste Patrick Warburton and most of the other cast members
Lilly Collins is entirely forgettable
It is incredibly predictable
You have seen this before and better
1/5
Reviewed by Luke
Another Millennial Reviewer 