Serenity (2019)

On an island community, a down on his luck fisherman (Matthew McConaughey) is approached by his ex-wife (Anne Hathaway) to murder her abusive husband (Jason Clarke). At first, he refuses but when he finds out the second husband's brutality is affecting his son (Rafael Sayegh) who lives with them, he changes his mind. Written and directed by Steven Knight (an Oscar nominee for his DIRTY PRETTY THINGS screenplay). The film is really two movies. The first is an awful inept noir-ish thriller that had me thinking about walking out. Halfway through the movie, it suddenly switches gears and turns into an M. Night Shyamalan psychological game that makes you question everything you've seen before. It doesn't make the movie any better but it makes it more interesting so I stayed. All the actors flounder in an almost impossible script to carry off but it was especially disheartening to see the wonderful Diane Lane reduced to playing a cat lady waiting around to get screwed by McConaughey! Still, it's the kind of bad movie that develops a cult in the ensuing years though not for the right reasons. With Djimon Hounsou, Jeremy Strong and Charlotte Butler.