Well, anyways, back to the subject at hand. Return of the Family Man is filmed in South Africa and they spend the whole movie quietly pretending it's America. Which is pretty awesome, I might mention. I love how, in older movies like this, they just casually pretend it's America. Obviously trying to succeed in America by doing this, but now they'd do the opposite. Emphasize it's South Africa in order to succeed.
Return of the Family Man has a couple of groups of people coming together at a junked out house in the semi middle of nowhere, tricked there by some resort thing they bought into. Okay, it's original enough, I'll go with it. Meanwhile, a bus transporting criminals is derailed when serial killer "The Family Man" kills the guards and escapes. He begins his journey home, home ends up being the same house where the group of people is staying.
It's a simple enough story, and it works with the subject matter. The killer is given enough screen time to be interesting, and he's well acted enough for it to not be a total mistake. Some parts and the some of the pacing is a bit wonky, but all in all, nothing goes off the rails. The kills are pretty decent too. It's not super memorable, it's not out to hurt anyone, but it could have easily been worse.
Return of the Family Man was forgettable, but fine, ultimately. Nothing much to say. 2.5 stars.
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