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Primos (2019)
Terribad
Had heard good things about this foreign film, so I rented when it was a 99¢ discovery on iTunes.
To call it amateurish is an understatement. I think the biggest hurdle is the casting; first, you have discount Tyler Posey as the lead (with tats, ear gauge holes, and a nose piercing... he screams porn actor - not small-town boy growing up in rural Brazil); next, discount Adam Sandler as the aforementioned 'cousin,' and lastly, discount Nia Vardalos as the religious nutbag aunt with no financial common sense. Oh, and the obviously boy-crazed neighbor girl taking piano lessons from Tyler Posey literally bats her eyelashes at him multiple times to let the audience know she is enamored. It was all so hackneyed! I felt like I was watching a Disney Channel original movie.
Every plot point was so obviously telegraphed that there was never any tension or drama (will they or won't they get caught sneaking around?). Plus, the ridiculously preposterous ending.
Keep some distance from (your) Cousins. It's just not worth it.