June Squibb plays a senior citizen who gets taken for $10,000 by phone scammers pretending to be her dimwit grandson. Once she remembers where she wrote down their address, she sets out on a quest to get money back.

In other words, Thelma don’t need to Beekeeper to get her revenge.

This is a gentle comedy mixed with a thriller satire mixed with a poignant drama about growing old. It mixes all of these ideas into a pretty solid film that gives June Squibb a meatier role than she’s probably had in a long, long time.

As a straight-up comedy, there’s some gentle chuckles (or guffaws from the senior citizens in my audience) about growing old and being around other old people. It shakes some comedy out of her adult children and their hapless millennial son as well. There’s a segment between the grandson and his parents trying to find Grandma involving the Waze app that sounded exactly like conversations I’ve had with my parents while driving.

But it’s also a satire of pulse pounding revenge thrillers… including a low-speed chase with an electric scooter and a technothriller sequence as grandma tries to hack a computer while getting tech support from her grandson over the phone (also a very familiar sequence). Oh, and the perfect twist on Cool Guys Walk Away From Explosions.

But I also felt genuine poignancy from these characters grappling with their age and their feelings of obsolescence. Poignant because its honest and believable in context of the film but also because the elder cast probably has these feelings themselves. God bless June Squibb for being old all my life and me finding out she’s 94(!!!) years old.

If perhaps the movie ambled a little too much when it needed to rev and if it has a problem finding an ending, then I somewhat forgive it for doing something unique. It’s a bite of a lot of senior citizen jokes often told by senior citizens and, if my audience had anything to say about it, its target audience will find it hilarious. I enjoyed it… though part of me just appreciated the concept more than the content.

Score: 80