“A Lot Of Nothing” (*1/2 out of four) was a heavy-handed melodrama about a happily married couple (Y’lan Noel and Cleopatra Coleman) who see a nearby neighbor and cop (Andrew Leeds) on the news for shooting a child and decide to take the law into their own hands by kidnapping him but they both begin to reflect on one another the moral and legal repercussions of what they’re doing and whether this really is doing the right thing. Pertinent subject matter is told far too awkward and unconvincingly and contrivances eventually blunder this into ridiculousness. Noel and Leeds’ strong performances give this a boost but Coleman’s histrionics prevent you from taking any of this seriously. By the end, you simply can’t argue with film’s title.

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