![]() This is Sandler at his best in his career. Yeah, I know of Noah Baumbach’s The Meyerowitz Stories and I assume it’s great, but for me, THIS SHIT IS IT. Even while I type this, I’m still in both awe and utter disbelief over the fact that the Safdie Brothers (and their writing partner Ronald Bronstein) wrote a role for Adam Sandler and he went and delivered one of his best-and most unrecognizable-performances since Punch Drunk Love. They did it with Robert Pattinson and now they’ve done it with Adam Sandler, whose performance is the major carrier of this thrilling, anxiety-inducing fever dream of a film. ![]() Unfortunately, his own ego and incompetence get in the way.ĭo the Safdie Brothers have a list of actors whose filmographies are the bottom of the tank and just scoop them up to transform them so they can deliver award-worthy performances? It’s so damn bizarre. ![]() But once the Boston Celtics player Kevin Garnett (oh yeah, this is set in the year 2012) comes into his shop and stumbles upon Ratner’s latest acquisition, an Ethopian Opal which somehow gives Garnett magic powers, Howard seizes the opportunity to score big with both the NBA player and his debt collectors. It’s as if his shoulder angel died and he’s functioning solely with the help of his shoulder demon at 100%. It’s as if his conscience is on break 24/7 365. He got 99 problems and he keeps making more. Immediately, you’re thrusted into Howard’s hectic lifestyle: running his shop, selling fake jewels, running cons, being unfaithful to his family, owing thousands of dollars to multiple mobs, relentlessly lying and consciously digging himself into a deeper hole of problems. He would’ve been living far more comfortably if it wasn’t for the fact that he-in the words of Lunchmoney Lewis-got BILLS he’s gotta pay. He’s been somewhat successful in the sense that he’s able to afford both a house for his wife and kids in Long Island and an apartment complex in Manhattan for his loyal girlfriend, Jules. Sandler portrays a Jewish jewelry store owner named Howard Ratner, an annoying, abrasive, self-centered con man who has an addiction to gambling and making wrong decisions over and over again.
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