The Good Liar Isn’t At The Level of Hitchcock

The Good Liar tries so hard to be an Alfred Hitchcock thriller to the point in which the film ultimately comes to fail on that particular level. Roy Courtnay (Ian McKellen) is a con man.  He meets Betty McLeish (Helen Mirren) by way of an online dating website.  If Roy gets his way, he’ll rob Betty of every dollar she’s worth.  Betty’s grandson, Stephen (Russell Tovey), has his suspicions of Roy but Betty shrugs it…

"The Good Liar Isn’t At The Level of Hitchcock"