Inheritance

Richie rich Uncle Wladyslaw wants to test his relatives as they all are interested in his wealth than him. The news of his death, gets his niece and nephews along with their respective families to visit his mansion, hoping for the will to be in their favor. As they learn the uncle is still alive, they are sad but the will does get read out loud, leaving a chance for them to get the patents money provided they agree to play a game. Before they start the game, the uncle is found actually dead. Thus, begins the whodunit mystery while the bunch try to solve the puzzles for scoring the patents as well. Who is the real killer and who is the winner of the game, forms rest of the story.

The characters are quirky and there is a voice over aiming to make the proceedings fun. There is a murder, there are puzzles and a murder mystery to solve. However the characters are too goofy and the humor driven narrative takes away all the seriousness. The aim is to pull off a Knives Out but the story simply doesn't get established enough to care for any of these characters. The link to a game show, the wheel of truth too doesn't yield the desired impact. The more jokes they try to track, that much the film suffered. Exactly one joke worked for me organically and that features Dawid. When the stakes aren't high and the characters aren't too likable, the screenplay expects a lot of from the audience to be lenient. The final twist comes way too late and by then, it has lost all it's impact.