I saw "Just Getting Started", starring Morgan Freeman-Olympus Has Fallen, The Dark Knight movies; Tommy Lee Jones-Captain America:The First Avenger, Batman Forever; Rene Russo-The Thor movies, the Lethal Weapon movies and Jane Seymour-Fifty Shades of Black, Wedding Crashers. This is not a bad movie but it is pretty generic. Kind of like watching a TV sit-com or movie of the week. Morgan plays a guy that is living it up at a Palm Springs retirement home. In fact, he is the manager of the place. Jane plays a mobsters' wife that sees Morgan on TV and recognizes him as the guy who ratted out her husband, who happens to be in jail now. You see-and I'm not giving anything away here, it's in the trailer-Morgan is in witness protection. Yep, he is the rat that Jane saw on TV. About this time, Tommy shows up and moves in on Morgan's territory by being better at everything than Morgan is- poker, golf, even the women start fawning over Tommy. Then, Rene shows up. She is from corporate and is reviewing Morgan's job performance-if it's not good, he could get fired. Suddenly, attempts are made on Morgan's life. The question pops up; is one of the new arrivals a hit-man aiming to put Morgan six feet under? Or, could it be someone else? All the actors are likable and competent in their roles. It's just.... it's like watching The Love Boat or something-you know with all these recognizable older actors showing up in small cameo rolls. It's rated "PG-13" for language, violence and sexual content-no nudity-and has a running time of 1 hour & 31 minutes. I wouldn't buy it on DVD. I wouldn't rent it either. If you want to see it, I'd wait until it comes to cable TV.
Review of Just Getting Started
