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Critics Consensus: Boundaries benefits from a stellar performance by the reliably excellent Christopher Plummer, but his work is overwhelmed by the mediocre movie that surrounds it.
Critic Consensus: Boundaries benefits from a stellar performance by the reliably excellent Christopher Plummer, but his work is overwhelmed by the mediocre movie that surrounds it.
All Critics (68) | Top Critics (22) | Fresh (35) | Rotten (33)
A movie with no reason to exist apart from setting into motion an otherwise interesting cast, led by Christopher Plummer and Vera Farmiga.
The film... crosses a line - between engaging idiosyncrasy and floundering improbability, amusing and cringeworthy.
Plummer and Farmiga are great together. If only they'd been given material to suit their skills.
[Plummer] is incapable of mediocrity, but damn if the script doesn't draw him close to the edge.
That's the easy, low-grade charm of "Boundaries." Like the effects of Grandpa's weed, its performances loosen up - and at times even find the profundity in - a stiff and sometimes silly tale.
There's real love in that routine, and that's where Farmiga and Feste shine.
Shana Feste's pot-slinging cross-country road-trip dramedy deals in paternal disappointment and familial reconciliation but remains a bit high on its own supply.
A brilliant sense of humor to go along with an uncommonly sharp observations, making the study of politics on a number of fronts, as much gender-related as dealing with governance, a provocative delight from start to finish.
It's predictable, at times is a little too quirky, and sags a bit in the middle act. Yet Boundaries works, largely because of the cast
I found myself laughing quite a bit and felt great at the end of the journey. The comedy isn't trying to get you all up in your feelings, it just wants you to enjoy the ride.
Writer-director Shana Heste's film never transcends its clichés, wasting fine actors on a screenplay that whipsaws between broad comedy and shrill drama.
While some complex themes like abandonment and redemption are touched upon lightly, there's not much room for anything else to breathe with Farmiga's exaggeratedly neurotic character overshadowing some of the more interesting relationships."
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