Jackpot! (2024)

It's not very good, but this uneven action/sci-fi movie, about a dystopian future California where lottery winners can be hunted down for their murderers to legally claim the prizes, did give Jack and me some laughs. The huge cast is headed by Awkwafina as the winner and includes John Cena, Simu Liu, Becky Ann Baker, and Colson Baker AKA Machine Gun Kelly, as himself. 

I expected more from director Paul Feig, best known for Bridesmaids. Maybe we can blame the writer  Rob Yescombe? Theodore Shapiro's exciting score is streaming on Apple Music as I type.

Because The Fall Guy reopened the conversation about stunt people getting recognition from the Oscars and elsewhere, I need to point out that the stunt department on this one did a lot of great work.

Awkwafina was last blogged for Quiz Lady, Cena and Liu for Barbie, Becky Ann Baker for Holler, Feig for A Simple Favor, and Shapiro for The Eyes of Tammy Faye. Colson Baker/Kelly is a rapper who has acted in Beyond the Lights, The King of Staten Island, and more. This is Yescombes' second feature after several video games and shorts.

Rotten Tomatoes critics lost the ticket, averaging a rotten 31% and its audiences liked it only a little better at 51. We watched it on Prime Video with our subscription on October 2. If you go for it, keep the TV on for outtakes during the entire credits, followed by a scene.