It just makes Jack look incredibly dumb. (This movie has a lot of cheap jokes about old people being forgetful. Jeremiah is having a secret fling with a married resident at the nursing home. He has checked himself into the Hogan Hills Retirement Home for Returned Veterans in Adelaide, South Australia. “Never Too Late” (directed by Mark Lamprell and written by Luke Preston) is built around this flimsy premise, which is filled with too many moments that insult viewers’ intelligence. Norma has been taken to a nearby nursing facility called Bay Lodge for experimental treatment of her dementia.“In three months, she might not remember me,” moans Jack. Mark Lamprell and Luke Preston’s Never Too Late is one of those films that tells a sweet story about four old friends, while at the same time attempts to pepper in the shortcomings of society ill-equipped to take care of our senior citizens. )There’s also a somewhat unnecessary character named Hank (played by Max Cullen), a Hogan Hills wacky resident in his 90s, whose only purpose in the movie is to barge in on the Chain Breakers’ secret meetings (which they have in a stock room) and make a nuisance out of himself.
They all eventually went their separate ways. Keep track of your favorite shows and movies, across all your devices. Jack has come to the nursing home to “surprise” Norma.
Later, Jack finds out that Elliot lied to him about why Elliot spends a lot of time at the nursing home: Gina says that Elliot is the one who’s afraid to be home alone, and he asked his mother if he could hang out at the nursing home while she works.But something that Elliot tells Jack is true: The other three members of the Chain Breakers are in the same nursing home as he is. And guess who’s going to help Jack break out of this nursing home and into the nursing home where Norma is staying/being imprisoned?
Jeremiah asks Jack: “Do you have a plan?” Jack answers, “Does the Pope shit in the woods?”And there are some hijinks involving a loaded gun that Jeremiah has smuggled into Hogan Hills; Angus’ habit of walking around naked from the waist down; and a predictable scheme to set off the fire-alarm sprinklers in order to force an evacuation. (Obviously, he didn’t do his homework in finding out what kind of facility this really is.) There’s some cockamamie explanation in the movie that Jack (who is of sound mind and body) and the other Hogan Hills residents signed over their rights to leave the nursing of their own free will—in other words, they agreed to be held as prisoners there—but that in and of itself is a problematic legal issue that no legitimate nursing home would be allowed to get away with for long.Even if it were actually legal for Australian nursing homes to imprison residents, why would a former prisoner of war agree to that in the first place? Because he wanted to check into the nursing home, since Norma lives there too. Here’s an example of some of the vapid conversations in this useless film. It obliterates common sense in order to make almost every character look as moronic as possible. And after he gets a routine exam to test his motor skills (he’s slack-jawed and can barely speak), Jack is wheeled into his assigned room.As soon as the attendants leave, Jack quickly gets up and walks around as if he’s perfectly healthy. He and his lover are almost caught while they’re having a tryst in her room, when her husband knocks on the door, but Jeremiah manages to convince her husband that he has the wrong room. The reunited Chain Breakers call this mission Operation Skippy, as in, they’re going to skip right on out of this nursing home if it’s the last thing they do.And why does Elliot know so much about the Chain Breakers? C U Soon movie director: Mahesh Narayanan C U Soon movie rating: Three and a half stars. Find where to watch Never Too Late (2020) in Australia.