The Whisper Man

A well-meaning but mildly flawed man who resents his somewhat uncommunicative father for entirely stereotypical reasons works through those feelings. As is always the best, the son finally resolves these feelings towards his father moments before the latter’s violent death. This resolution is cemented by an exchange of meaningful glances and a couple of predictable words, and the healing induced by the brutal homicide of the older man allows the younger one to more successfully bond with his own boy, who is himself troubled, for, again, entirely stereotypical reasons.

It has to be said that the man at the centre of it all is pretty darn unlikeable, and this has deleterious effects on the enjoyability of the whole experience. It is conceivably worth mentioning that there is also (presumably as a way of introducing an element of variation into the scenes with which the viewer is presented) a woman. She is stoic and capable and does not die. It is not really worth spending the time that would be required to enumerate the many absurd contrivances of the narrative, and the many absurd decisions by the characters who feature in that narrative.