Review of 99 Homes

99 Homes (2014)
7/10
Real then not so!
7 February 2022
Warning: Spoilers
As a landlord who have down hundreds of evictions. I can say eviction can be exactly that way. However the film doesn't show how much time, notices that the tenant or owner gets before the actual evictions removal. The people in the movie always seem surprised. In real life they always know it is coming and when. But clearly that was not the goal of this movie. For the most part it was good and felt real. During some eviction you can wish there was something else that could be done. However most of the time your relieved to finally get this person out. They can be quite aggressive rude etc.. hence the carrying of the gun. Now the scene where he is hiding what he does for a living that was corny. Like he was doing something so shameful, like a drug dealer or something, not believe. Most people will take the work and be happy to be on the other side of the fence. The mother not wanting the nice home on some moral trip was not believable either. No one would prefers to go back to the dangerous motel. This seem to be rich people romanticizing the ideals of lower income people. Most would take the job, keep the new house, and mind there business when it came to delivering paperwork for the boss. The morality they keep injecting in this movie was unbelievable. It would have made more sense for us to see him continue to change to the point he can not connect to the lower income or had no sympathy during eviction. Even better he could become the new Carver as he evict Mr Green. Also arresting him at the end that makes no sense he could have said that just to calm Green down.
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