Quartile rating: 7/10 · 1 rating
Disowned at birth by his obscenely wealthy family, blue-collar Becket Redfellow will stop at nothing to reclaim his inheritance, no matter how many relatives stand in his way.
How to Make a Killing plays in well-trodden dark-comedy thriller territory — the disowned heir reclaiming a fortune through increasingly extreme means is a familiar premise with clear echoes of Kind Hearts and Coronets and a wave of similar inheritance-conflict comedies. The plot earns a solid above-average for its propulsive momentum and dark-comedic escalation, and the ensemble likely delivers competent if unremarkable work. Cinematography for this genre rarely distinguishes itself, and this appears no exception — functional mansion-gothic framing without distinctive visual ambition. Novelty is the real ceiling here: the 'remake' keyword and the well-worn rival-heirs setup signal a derivative conception rather than a singular one, keeping it squarely below average in distinctiveness. The ending, for a revenge-thriller comedy of this type, likely lands with enough satisfying irony to sit above average without being truly memorable.