This sentimental remake of French heartwarmer The Untouchables pairs a quadriplegic businessman with a black carer Kevin Hart to give unfunny echoes of Trading Places
There’s a downside to this horrific film as steep as the drop from Beachy Head. Theoretically, it’s a remake of Les Untouchables, the French heartwarmer smash from 2011 taken from a true story, starring François Cluzet as a lonely, angry quadriplegic multimillionaire and the redemptive odd-couple friendship he strikes up with his irreverent ex-con carer, played by Omar Sy. The film suggested a matching caste equivalence in their respective disadvantages: physical and socioeconomic.
This version has Bryan Cranston as the wheelchair user, Phillip, a mega-rich business guru and art collector who suffered a catastrophic hang-glider accident. (His single status is moreover explained by having his wife’s cancer death perfunctorily remembered in flashback.) Kevin Hart plays Dell, the fast-talking guy on parole who somehow gets a job as his live-in “life auxiliary”.
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