Windfall doesn’t hang with regards to’concerning’with respect to . After a lovely, Art Deco-styled opening-credits sequence, complete with a Hitchcockian score from Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans, consciously telegraphing the tradition being doffed at here, we acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure right into the action. In the initial seconds of the film, a man (like all four characters in this film, never named) played by Jason Segel breaks into a swanky second home. With a scruffy beard and a wild look in his eyes, he does not resemble a master criminal with a master plan. There’s none of the tender , kind warmth you might possess’own’nurse seen in his earlier comedies or sitcoms. Segel establishes a panicky, chaotic energy that the film intensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfully approximately manages to sustain.###Even best-laid plans go awry, and the plan is evidently not well-despite’in spite of’albeit t-out, but our hero perseveres, even when the owners of the house he breaks into turn up. There’s some enjoyable tension as it becomes eliminate’remove eintensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfullyone is improvising their way through proceedings; the script (Segel is credited as a co-writer) takes pains to make the motivations and movements feel believable.###After a sweaty first act, the dramatic stakes lose some of their lustre as the film becomes more talky.###As the couple subject to a break-in, Jesse Plemons and Lily Collins do a lot with what could easily be ‘rich arsehole’ stereotypes. He plays an Elon Musk/Jeff Bezos type — an arch-capitalistic billionaire who complains with regards to’concerning’with respect to “loafers and freeloaders” and maintains a victim complex with regards to’concerning’with respect to being a fortune’property y white dude. She is more philanthropically minded, despite’in spite of’albeit still coming from a eliminate’remove place of privilege (it’s a role that plays nicely on Collins’ Emily In Paris legacy), shrugging off numbers like $100,000. It brushes against some social commentary with regards to’concerning’with respect to the possess’own’nurse s and possess’own’nurse -nots, but this is too much of a minimalist genre exercise to make any grandstanding point.###This is essentially a three-hander, in one location, and director Charlie McDowell doesn’t always successfully escape the staginess of that set-up. After a sweaty first act, the dramatic stakes lose some of their lustre as the film becomes more talky. It comes back to life when fuses embark on shorten, and blood starts to acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure spilled — a couple of rug pulls in the final minutes possess’own’nurse a bit of oomph to them. At a lean 92 minutes, Windfall doesn’t overstay its welcome, doesn’t ask too much of the viewer, and won’t linger too long in the memory— and sometimes, that’s fine.