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- 2023
- PG-13
- Apple TV+
- 1 h 58 m
- 2023
- PG-13
- Apple TV+
- 1 h 58 m
Summary Dan Morgan (Mark Wahlberg) loves his quiet suburban life as a devoted husband, father of three and successful car salesman. But that’s only half the story. Decades earlier, he was an elite government assassin tasked with eliminating the world’s deadliest threats. When enemies from his past track him down, Dan packs his unsuspecting wife ...
Directed By: Simon Cellan Jones
Written By: David Coggeshall
- 2023
- PG-13
- Apple TV+
- 1 h 58 m
- 2023
- PG-13
- Apple TV+
- 1 h 58 m
The Family Plan
39
5.3
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Summary Dan Morgan (Mark Wahlberg) loves his quiet suburban life as a devoted husband, father of three and successful car salesman. But that’s only half the story. Decades earlier, he was an elite government assassin tasked with eliminating the world’s deadliest threats. When enemies from his past track him down, Dan packs his unsuspecting wife ...
Directed By: Simon Cellan Jones
Written By: David Coggeshall
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
39
18% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
45% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
36% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
39
18% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
45% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
36% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
This is pretty routine material, but it’s been realized with charm and enthusiasm: The director, Simon Cellan Jones, maintains a good handle on the comic-thriller tone and shoots the action with wit and creativity.
The Family Plan resembles the first Dan more than the second, too predictable and formulaic to excite, without the juice to become a family favorite.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 32 User Ratings
5.3
31% Positive
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
56% Mixed
18 Ratings
18 Ratings
13% Negative
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 32 User Ratings
5.3
31% Positive
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
56% Mixed
18 Ratings
18 Ratings
13% Negative
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
Cheerfully dumb and dutifully formulaic, it’s “content” in the worst sense of the term.
Stretching its high concept but thin results to the breaking point, The Family Plan feels like a movie whose best moments were during the pitch meeting.
No one on-screen is to blame for the failure of The Family Plan. They’re all fine, but they’re swimming upstream against a script that doesn’t give them enough to do and a director who fails at blending an average family and uncommon action into one vision.
Each setpiece is composed and paced much like the last, which only amplifies the sense of Dan as some kind of unflustered, largely unsympathetic man-machine, paused only by the script’s fleeting interpersonal conflicts.
There is nothing in The Family Plan that you haven’t seen before, to the point that there’s somehow even less.
IN A NUTSHELL:
The story is about a top government assassin who has been living incognito as a suburban dad. His past catches up to him and he has to take his unsuspecting family on the run.
The film was directed by Simon Cellan Jones. Writing credits go to David Coggeshall.
THINGS I LIKED:
I love Mark Wahlberg. He’s equally talented in drama, action, and comedy. Here in Las Vegas where he lives (and I live), he has a great reputation as being a stand-up, family man. That’s impressive to me. He and his co-star in this movie, Michelle Monaghan, also starred together in the movie Patriot’s Day back in 2016.
I’m wondering when Michelle Monaghan and Maggie Q are ever going to start aging. They both look amazing.
A character in the movie is named Kyle but he has a fake passport with the name Van, which is the real name of the actual actor: Van Crosby.
Adele gets a couple of shoutouts during the film. Who doesn’t love Adele? Mark Wahlberg’s character said, “She has the voice of an angel.”
I loved the Las Vegas scenes. I live in Vegas, Baby! There’s always so much to see and do here.
Keep watching during the final rolling credits for some cute images and more funny clips.
Vanilla Ice. Ha ha
THINGS I DIDN’T LIKE:
The characters felt like…characters. Nothing felt real in the story. I know, it’s supposed to be a silly comedy, but it made the film feel hollow and overly cheesy somehow.
Teenage daughters in movies are always portrayed like complete monsters. The one in this movie was extremely unlikely until Act 3.
The scenarios are completely ridiculous. The characters’ reactions to various things are unrealistic and, at times, really odd. Just check your brain out the door so you can enjoy this.
A lot of the jokes don’t land.
Ultimately, the film is extremely formulaic and cliched.
TIPS FOR PARENTS:
Profanity, including 1 F-bomb
Some sexual innuendos and talk of sex
Violence with various weapons
Very high dead body count
Destruction
We see a shirtless man.
A mom chugs beer upside down
A married couple makes out in bed
People are in perilous situations
A teenage girl flips the bird
We see a teenage boy kill a bunch of animated people in video games
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(Mauro Lanari)
"True Lies" was on another level while this one probably won't leave any trace of iconic scenes, but if you don't look for Cameron and settle for a good Wahlberg, the movie is pretty fun. Great effort by Apple not to correlate the gamer Killboy to real shooting skills.
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This film starts with Mark Wahlberg as a happy family man, until it's revealed that he used to be a hired killer. When people from his past discover his new identity, the escape adventure begins. There are well-staged PG action scenes to keep the energy up. The characters have enjoyable moments, esp. the baby, whose responses provide the most fun. (The fight scene with baby strapped to Wahlberg's chest is a highlight.) Despite the deadly threats, the overall energy is not comic, but lighthearted and upbeat with touches of thriller. The plot is basic and the dialogue isn't special, but there's sufficient verve to make it moderately entertaining and quickly forgettable.
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No, in absolutely every way, no. Everything Wahlberg's character does in this is infuriating.
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What an absolutely terrible film. The original called Nobody in 2021 is so much better. Worlds apart. This version copy whatever crap it is is a super sanitised mass market ignorant way of a whatever person in the world of subterfuge wants to have a family.
Don't bother watching this or try to. I know that everyone is going to watch it anyway because you want to all be stupid but watch the original modern version which is Nobody 2021.
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Production Company
Apple Original Films,
Municipal Pictures,
Skydance Media
Release Date Dec 15, 2023
Duration 1 h 58 m
Rating PG-13
