"The Privileged" begins as a legal drama where two attorneys and their wives meet at a cabin retreat. But as the night wears on, the situation of the couples becomes more and more violent. Bodies begin to pile up, and the only survivors remaining are the privileged.

The film had excellent potential to explore how the disenfranchised Linley family members are overwhelmed by the rich and powerful Westwoods. But in the characters of Preston and Julia Westwood, dumb luck seemed to play a greater role than privilege.

Richard and his pregnant wife Tara seemed at first glance to be decent people. Richard, who felt ethically compelled not to use the Koslow file in a recent case, has been reprimanded by Preston. The meeting at the lake house will determine whether or not Richard is fired.

But the film took a turn toward the macabre when both Richard and Tara kill two of the locals. Tara kills a man who was about to murder her husband. But when Richard strangled the old-timer John Fox, who was a multi-millionaire, the film no longer became a drama about the privileged.

By the end, all three of the Linleys are dead. They lost their land due to the greed of the Westwoods. But the death of John Fox, Richard Hunter, and pregnant Tara seemed gratuitous, adding only an element of sensationalism to the film.

There were moments in the escapades of the Westwoods and the Hunters that nearly became farcical. The most ludicrous scene was when Preston began firing flaming arrows into a barge full of corpses. We never learned the actual contents of the Koslow file. We only know that it was private and confidential and that it was the springboard for the long day's journey into night.

.. With an unsatisfying ending. Obviously, the law firm partner and his wife are both sociopaths. Many captains of industry are exactly that.

How else can you can layoff off thousands of people and start wars and still sleep at night?

Anyway, this movie gets creepier, more implausible, and sillier as it goes along. The fired guy is a guillible idiot. He should have played along and then escaped with his wife or left her and drove straight to the cops. Do what if you want a big house? You're not *entitled* to one. Millions of people aren't living in big houses so no empathy there.

But no, they get talked into staying with claims of, it'll be okay. No it won't. Didn't this idiot have a law degree?! No wonder he was fired!

Well, by the time the fired guy gets around to choking to death some old guy while his wife stands by with her mouth hanging open, you're hoping they all get caught.

And the ending shot maybe tells you they will get caught. I mean someone needs to report someone missing, bring up the feud, trace their phones to the partner's house, do an autopsy and discovery damage consistent with being shot by a shotgun and start putting 2 and 2 together.

Four of the most unlikable people ever!

"The Privileged" is one of those films that depends upon ridiculous actions of the main characters to keep the plot moving. A young lawyer and his wife go to the guy's boss' lake house in a desperate attempt to save his job. What transpires at the lake house would destroy anyone's life for good. While the film is entertaining overall, what transpires borders on the absurd. Start with a character basically being fired by his boss one minute, then invited to the boss' lake house an instant later. Continue with the two main male characters essentially rubbing down each other's wives together while they sip cocktails. I mean, the young lawyer's wife (pregnant) just met the other couple only hours earlier and she's lying across the boss' lap in the skimpiest of dresses after dinner with him rubbing down her bare legs and thighs, while her husband gives his boss's wife a massage across the room? Seriously, where does that happen? A man, disgruntled because the rich couple ran his family out of business and took their land, knocks on their door at night alone unarmed to confront them and-do what exactly? Beat them up? Have dessert with them? Or, maybe just to get killed so the whole movie has tension and a plot. Oh, this is before things really get ridiculous. This is a film that could have been so much better with just an ounce of reality; instead, it is really a total farce.