This starts with him in a prison cell, sentenced to death in a few hours, talking to a priest and laying out what happened.
The premise is simple. He's the heir to a fortune but his mother was disavowed, but not disinherited. Not really. She made a life for herself and when she got sick none of the family did anything for her, which set the path for her son's plan to make it right. She told him to have the life he deserved and it was a theme as he grew up. She didn't get buried in the family tomb either.
When he was a kid he had a crush on a girl and after his mother died and he went into the foster system they didn't see each other again. It was more of a fade away but that was the end result. He went on to get a job he liked doing deliveries for a custom tailor shop.
When he was told he was being moved to a warehouse job so the owner's son could have his job he got to thinking about what his life should have been, and what was in the way.
The bulk of the movie is him finding each relative and offing them in some way that looks accidental. Then showing up at the funeral to see the coffin being put into the tomb. He never gloats or lets them know who he is. The FBI check on him after the second relative is gone, more as a procedure than an investigation. He says he doesn't know that he's an heir, which is quite the lie.
At this point the old crush shows up again and she's getting married. She dangles herself in front of him and keeps him on the hook.
He meets his uncle and the guy has genuine remorse for what happened and how his mother was treated. He gives him the job his recently deceased nephew had and suddenly he's on track to have a nice life. He knows he's a nepo hire but so was the nephew. At this point he also meets someone and starts having a nice life with her. Well. She was the girlfriend of the second one he killed but she wasn't right for him and was going to leave him anyway. But it works.
He takes out another one while he's working his way at his real job and the old crush shows up again, keeping him on the hook.
The uncle passes away naturally and this one is the only time he's upset. It also means that there's only one person left to deal with and that's the patriarch who kicked out his pregnant mother. But at this point he doesn't seem that interested. The FBI show up again and he now knows he's in the much shorter line of heirs but there's nothing to pin on him.
The crush now puts his nuts in a vice. She got a hunch that he was behind all the killings and had him followed. She had pictures. Her price was money since her husband didn't have as much as she wanted. If he didn't get it to her, she'd give the pictures to the police.
This is the same day as his engagement party. He also gets an invitation to dinner with the patriarch. So much going on! The soon-to-be fiancé expects him at the party. The crush wants the money. He wants his chance to talk to the man who didn't help his mother.
He embezzles the money to pay the crush and brings it to her husband's office. He says he doesn't care about the money because she's just going to use it to divorce him. There's a bit of a scuffle because our guy is upset about the whole evening.
He goes to the patriarch in the huge mansion and what happens is that they guy knows what he's been doing and plans on killing him first. So there's some indoor hunting going on and using the archery his mother taught him he takes out the patriarch in self-defense.
He's got the money. He's got his girlfriend. At his big party the FBI arrest him for the murder of the crush's husband, which he actually didn't do. But his fingerprints were on the letter opener that he'd shoved out of the way. Funny how life works.
The crush shows up while he's in jail and says she's got a suicide note but she's got a price and that's everything he has. He signs it over and has to hope she'll come through. She does at pretty close to the last minute and he's cleared.
His fiancé is waiting for him in the parking lot. She's there to give him the locket with the lock of his mother's hair, which she gives to him with a decent amount of velocity before she drives away. The crush is there in a very nice car now suiting her station to pick him up. He gets in the car. It ends with them driving through the gates of his family's estate and her smiling at him. He got the life he deserved.
This was a comedy with a healthy dose of nihilism. It needed both to work. It started with comedy then gradually introduced the nihilism until that's where it ended. There's a ton of moral lessons in there that weren't put out in the forefront so it was a more subtle movie than it could have been and I applaud the restraint. If you like that kind of mix then you'll enjoy this.
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