Surface Level "People We Meet on Vacation" is Still a Fun Time
Unfortunately, People We Meet on Vacation didn’t hold up quite as well as I’d hoped.

Richard Walters is condemned to death for a murder he claims not to have committed. He arrives on death row just before a brutal inmate leads the other convicts in a violent uprising. Walters gets caught up in the riot, while on the outside his friends are trying to find evidence of his innocence.
Unfortunately, People We Meet on Vacation didn’t hold up quite as well as I’d hoped.
Soul takes intangible concepts like self and personality and makes them completely palpable and simple to digest.
The film seems like an extreme interpretation of the conspiracy theorists that exist in real life. And then, there’s the twist.
One of THE most frustrating trends in the mainstream film industry over the last several decades has been the onset of comedy efforts that seem SO focused on being crude and/or gross-out in all ways possible. That, at least for me, makes them no longer funny.
Praising Black representation and condemning the power structures that suppress it, a mother delivers an impassioned speech to her distant son.