Jackpot!

Reviewer Flickchart rating: 3,764 / 5,533 (32%)

Amazon sends Awkwafina on the race of her life with John Cena as they attempt to survive LA till sunset or die attempting. Can the streaming big’s latest launch win huge, or will it play it secure and fall flat? 

Jackpot! Follows Katie Kim (Awkwafina) a latest Hollywood transplant in 2030 after the Nice Melancholy of 2026. To lift cash, town of Los Angeles has created a lottery the place the winner is killed by sunset, and the assassin will get the loot. Kim by accident enters, wins, and the race to kill her is on. Fortuitously, impartial Lottery Safety Agent Noel Cassidy (John Cena) arrives just like the Kool-Support Man crashing via the partitions to supply his providers and usher her to sunset and a $3.6 billion bag. 

With a It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) power (although with much less imaginative and prescient), Jackpot! sends Awkwafina and Cena on a sequence of misadventures, intently dodged blades, chaotic fights, and mob chases. Director Paul Feig (Bridesmaids, A Easy Favor) creates a Looney Tunes-styled actuality the place Cena’s kicks ship an individual flying yards away and his face is animated with broad reactions to each emotion. Awkwafina’s typical angle and sarcasm are a welcomed presence, although Feig largely makes use of her because the straight man with a tragic childhood offering an emotional arc becoming for a broad motion comedy. 

Jackpot! pulls its punches, providing an R-rated comedy about legalized homicide that has surprisingly little violence, feeling tame even by latest MCU requirements. Disappointingly, the creator of Bridesmaids brings no edge to the proceedings, solely imprecise attemptings to satirize the rise of the billionaire class amid financial turmoil. However clothes each determined particular person in hip designer leisurewear and new automobiles blunts the satirical blade.

Jackpot! provides a straightforward strategy to spend a night for followers of the 2 leads who do their greatest to have enjoyable with the fabric. For these within the temper for a bit of sunshine escapism with a contact of loopy laughs, Amazon’s newest comedy car will suffice. Anybody hoping for a way of creativity or edgy, darkish humor must look elsewhere.