This is (literally) the 543rd movie called either Inheritance or The Inheritance (I counted). The knockabout reason its even called Inheritance isn’t revealed until the very last five seconds of the film. Not that it matters, just found it amusing in a throw-up-your-hands SEO way.

This Inheritance is about a woman who has loses her mom after a year of in-home hospice. At the funeral, her rich deadbeat dad shows up and offers her a job. She goes off with him to Egypt only to find out he’s into some shady stuff and people are after him.

My first reaction to this film is “wow, it sure looks like they film in Cairo”… and it sure looks like they visited the pyramids and the Sphinx. And later it sure looks like India and South Korea. Maybe it was all Vancouver or shot on The Volume… but I think they actually gave everyone an Adam Sandler x3 level of business expense vacations. It was pretty cool for a smaller budget flick.

But maybe the problem with all that location filming is that vast swaths of this flick feel like a travelogue and not a thriller. There’s a ton of the actors wandering the streets, staring at monuments or temples… generally doing anything but being in an international crime thriller.

As an international crime thriller, I was decently into the film. The back and forth between daughter and her father was good… the actors putting weight behind their emotions and whether or not everyone is telling the truth.

And yet there’s still a lackadaisical stroll to the film that was sometimes baffling. It’s enough to say I appreciate the camerawork but less so the story progression. And forget about the end which feels like a shrug until a very last minute finale that tied things together. Thankfully.

So, yeah, this is an interesting film that I read was shot guerilla style in its various international locations. It’s not the most exciting film but the dialog ambiguity and distrust rise to the occasion. It’s pretty good.

Score: 76