The Do-Over

The Do-Over
File:The Do-Over Poster.png Film poster
Directed by	Steven Brill
Produced by	Adam Sandler Allen Covert Kevin Grady Ted Sarandos
Written by	Kevin Barnett Chris Pappas
Starring	Adam Sandler David Spade
Music by	Rupert Gregson-Williams
Cinematography	Dean Semler
Edited by	Tom Costain
Production company	Happy Madison Productions
Distributed by	Netflix
Release dates	May 16, 2016 (2016-05-16) (Los Angeles premiere) May 27, 2016 (2016-05-27) (Worldwide)
Running time	108 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Do-Over is a 2016 American action comedy film directed by Steven Brill, and written by Kevin Barnett and Chris Pappas. It stars Adam Sandler and David Spade. The film is the second in a four-film deal between Sandler and Netflix. The film was released worldwide on Netflix on May 27, 2016.

Plot

Charlie McMillan works as a bank branch manager inside a Save & Pay grocery store. He is married to former prom queen Nikki, who cheats on Charlie with her ex-husband Ted-O. Her two stepsons (by Ted-O) treat Charlie like dirt. Charlie meets his old friend and former neighbor Max "Maxi-Pad" Kessler at his 25-year high school reunion. While the two become intoxicated at a bar, Max claims to be an FBI agent and confesses he is stalked by his psycho ex-girlfriend Becca. Charlie admits to wanting a new life and agrees to spend a weekend on Max's yacht while Nikki is away on a spa vacation.

Max drugs Charlie with roofies and blows up the yacht while he rows them to safety. When Charlie awakens, Max reveals he faked their deaths so they could start their new lives. Pretending to be a coroner, Max says he took the bodies of two dead men and placed them on the boat. Max assigns Charlie with the identity of Dr. Ronald P. Fishman, while he is now known as Butch Ryder. Charlie, appalled by Max's actions, returns home to his 'funeral' to find out that nobody misses him, his bank position has already been replaced, his possessions have been given away, and Nikki has already reconciled with Ted-O.

Charlie reunites with Max and resolves to live their lives to the fullest by relocating to Puerto Rico, where they fool bank staff and gain access to the late Butch Ryder's safety deposit box using a key Max found hidden in the dead man's rectum. From the box they retrieve large sums of money, a tablet, and a note from Butch's ex-lover Dakota who has also provided keys to Butch's secret hideout in Puerto Rico. After a night of partying with Joan (Jackie Sandler) and Dawn (Catherine Bell), the duo learn that Ronald was married after seeing a picture of his wife on Butch's tablet. While relaxing in the pool, Max and Charlie are attacked by a group of assassins led by a tall German hitman nicknamed "The Gymnast". They manage to escape after Max demonstrates his skills with firearms, killing many of the assassins but not the Gymnast. Soon after, they discover that Butch was a criminal. Charlie gets mad at Max for his incompetence, along with the fact that Ronald was actually shot to death, putting them in harm's way. Max reveals to Charlie that his story of being a coroner was also a lie, and says he is really a guidance counselor who went to Police academy with hopes of becoming a motorcycle cop, but was unsuccessful due to a poor showing on his psychological exam.

After arguing about their predicament, they return to the USA to try to find Ronald's wife, Heather Fishman. They find her and knock her over with their Winnebago as a way to break the ice about her husband, but before they can tell her, a man looking for Max and Charlie shows up on Heather's doorstep. The two grab Heather, escape in her van, running down the man looking for them in the process, and take her to a park where they calm her down and explain the circumstances of Ronald's murder. Heather informs Max and Charlie that Ronald had retired from practicing medicine and ran a pharmaceutical research firm with his friend Butch. Max and Charlie infer that Butch got Ronald entangled in criminal activity which causes Heather to think they might be on to something as her home and Ronald's study were broken into and trashed the previous week.

The trio head to a biker bar where Ronald and Butch used to meet up. At the bar, they learn from a biker that Butch had stage 4 cancer and met Ronald as one of his patients. Ronald helped Butch get better with his 'magic bullet' cancer treatment and they began conducting secret, non-FDA approved clinical trials with other cancer patients. Ronald was forced to cancel the project when his partner Arthur "Shecky" Sheck stopped providing funding, so Butch started knocking off banks to have enough money to continue the treatments, putting him on the FBI's Most Wanted List. The biker, revealed to be Dakota from the letter in the safety deposit box, went to Puerto Rico to set up their secret hideaway, and further reveals that he and Butch were lovers for years until Butch and Ronald themselves became lovers. As Heather, Max and Charlie depart the bar, Dakota is shot by the Gymnast, forcing the trio to escape. They head to Max's senile mother's house to spend the night during a storm when the power goes out. Max heads out to fix the fuse box where he is ambushed by his ex-girlfriend Becca and threatens Max with a gun, but they soon make up and have sex. Charlie opens up to Heather about his bad former life, and they spend an intimate night together.

The group heads to Shecky's home where he breaks down and sobs upon learning of Ronald's death. Shecky reveals that his house was broken into, his laptop and cell phone stolen, and that he was desperate to find financing after the bank suddenly called in their loans. The trio leave and determine that the men who tried to kill them wanted the formula and broke into Heather's and Shecky's home to try and find it. They discover the same man-who is now wrapped in bandages-from Butch and Ronald's Puerto Rican hideaway and Heather's home is on their tail. After running him off the road and Max holding him at gunpoint, the bandaged man says he is from the fraud department of American Express and that Max needs to pay back $62,000. Max drops the man, named Bob, off at the hospital and gives him enough money to cover his debts and compensate him for his injuries.

They head to Ronald's clinic where Charlie says they should hand over the formula when they find it. When Max protests the idea of handing over a cancer cure to criminals, Charlie accuses Max of wanting to profit off the cure himself, angering Max who speeds away on his motorcycle. After Heather leaves to search for Max, Charlie discovers that Max was actually another of Ronald's patients and had been diagnosed with metastatic colorectal cancer, and had seen remarkable progress from Ronald's cancer treatment. He also sees that Max has a young son, Max Jr., and comes to the realization that all along Max has been trying to recover the cure for his own form of cancer.

Max breaks into Shecky's house thinking that he is withholding the cure. He begins torturing Shecky with items purchased at an auto parts store, but finds him with a severe gunshot wound. Shecky reveals that the assassins were hired by Trojgaard (sharing the surname of one of the film's co-producers), the world's largest chemotherapy company, to steal the cure so they could bury it and continue profiting off of their own products. Max wonders why Trojgaard would bury a drug that could generate billions in sales, but Shecky states that a drug that replaces chemotherapy would ultimately cost the company trillions of dollars. Max asks Shecky who shot him, but dies before he can give an answer. Max is then pistol-whipped by the killer, shown to be The Gymnast, and holds Max hostage in Shecky's basement where he plans on torturing and killing Max.

Meanwhile, Charlie learns from Becca that Max discovered Ronald's and Butch's dead bodies on the floor of Ronald's clinic. Wanting to cure his cancer, Max concocted the ruse of faking their identities but needed a partner and saw that Charlie could use a 'do-over' at life as well. Charlie discovers that Ronald's cure has been cleverly disguised as a Jenga app on the tablet recovered from the safety deposit box and attempts to call Max with the good news, but The Gymnast destroys Max's cellphone. Moments before The Gymnast tortures Max, Heather arrives to reveal that she was offered, and accepted, a fortune from Trojgaard to bury the drug, a decision turned down by Ronald that ultimately led to his and his partner's deaths.

Charlie calls Heather but she lies and says that Max killed Shecky. When Charlie arrives, he punches Heather in the face saying he saw right through her lie. Although Heather manages to pull a gun on Charlie, Max (who has escaped his torture den after The Gymnast was accidentally electrocuted) catches up to Heather and knocks her out while popping a wheelie. Becca arrives and viciously fights with Heather while Max and Charlie smoke a joint and watch the women fight. The police arrive and tell everyone to put their hands in the air, causing Becca to accidentally throw the tablet into the water.

The trio are arrested and brought to the hospital where Bob, who turns out to have been an FBI agent, regrettably informs Max and Becca that the tablet has suffered irreparable water damage. Although Bob states that he has to arrest Max and Charlie, Max is overjoyed to discover that Charlie had the foresight to backup the formula on a USB drive and hide it in his rectum. The duo are pardoned for their crimes by the government when they offer the cancer treatment as a bargaining chip. Max, Charlie, Becca, Max Jr. and Max's mom return to the house in Puerto Rico after Max is cured, and Charlie exacts revenge on his old family for the cruel way they treated him. The movie ends with Max and Charlie jumping off a cliff into the ocean, a feat which the old Charlie at the high-school reunion thought he could never do.

Cast

• Adam Sandler as Max Kessler
• David Spade as Charlie McMillan
• Paula Patton as Heather Fishman
• Catherine Bell as Dawn
• Nick Swardson as Bob
• Matt Walsh as Arthur "Shecky" Sheck
• Luis Guzmán as Jorge
• Kathryn Hahn as Becca
• Natasha Leggero as Nikki
• Michael Chiklis as Carmine
• Renee Taylor as Mrs. Kessler
• Sean Astin as Ted-O
• Jackie Sandler as Joan
• Torsten Voges as The Gymnast

Production

Principal photography on the film began in Savannah, Georgia on July 7, 2015, and it ended on August 21, 2015.

Release

The film was released worldwide on Netflix on May 27, 2016.

Critical reception

On Rotten Tomatoes the film has a rating of 8%, based on 13 reviews, with an average rating of 3.2/10. On Metacritic the film has a score of 20 out of 100, based on 8 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".

David Palmer of The Reel Deal gave the film 5/10, noting it was better than The Ridiculous 6 but still not a good comedy.

External links

• The Do-Over official website on Netflix
• The Do-Over at IMDb
• The Do-Over at Rotten Tomatoes
• The Do-Over at Metacritic