. . . is a pure Geezerpaloosa, through and through. For those folks into this sort of thing (mostly the geriatric crowd born in the 1800s and 1900s),JUST GETTING STARTED could just as easily be tagged as "Hope springs Eternal." Set and filmed in a Palm Springs Old Fogey Compound where no one wears Depends and Ancient Farts only croak having sex, JUST GETTING STARTED comes off as a Baby Boomer Fantasy where Millennials only exist as Go-Fers to their Extreme Elders, or ineffectual codger assassins. No one has a care in their head that Red Commie KGB Chief Vlad "The Mad Russian" Putin and his Pedophiliac Repug Party Henchpeople are busy pulling out from under them the rugs of Social Security, Medicare, Government-insured Pensions, Bank Accounts, and Annuities as they "party" in Slow So-Slow Motion. One gets the sense that when the Kremlin sends in the Caterpillars to bulldoze them into ditches, these giddily giggling geezers will be too far gone to even notice.

I could not believe the shockingly low score for this film with such an all star cast. Once I saw it, I realized it was in fact deserving of the 3.8 IMDb rating, and only so high, from the sympathetic votes for these A-listers when they realized what they had signed up for.

So here's what I think happened. Ron Shelton's 5th grade grandson wrote and directed this nonsense but was too young to be named in the credits, so grandpa steps in and enters his name.

Next, Waze (the phone GPS app that was product-mentioned) funded this 5th graders film, and paid these A-list actors their wages so people will go see this mess, then leave the theater and download their app.

What else can it be? These huge actors did their worst... they hardly made an effort. The entire set was probably the after-party set up for when filming wrapped, just for the A-listers to have incentive to do some type of performance.

The directing and editing was, well, that of a 5th grader.

What a waste of talent on such a garbage screenplay.

A sympathetic 3/10 from me, only for the all star cast that got duped into making this nonsense.

I started with a 2, but I give it a 3 for charm and moderate innocent fun - against so much of the garbage dark and grim superhero and political garbage movies filling the theaters today, but seriously, how did this movie make it to the theaters? The Director/Writer along with the Editor should have their salaries docked for such lousy work. I mean absolute garbage efforts --- in all three - writing - directing (which allowed poor acting from taking the worst cuts - and editing -- the absolute worst. They managed to take three main-stream super star actors and nearly ruin their careers (likely not) with this VERY poorly written, VERY poorly directed and oh my gosh.. I can't say it enough.. the editing is the worst. Talk about rush rush and no substance to the story development. The only thing I truly liked about this movie was the colorful and sun-filled backdrop of the location it was filmed made it fun to sit through, and seeing the faces of Jones, Russo and Freeman -- three actors I who's work I have enjoyed so much over the decades, along with many supporting roles of some big names -- made it watchable. But that's it. Glad this was gifted to me, and I didn't pay to go see this movie on my own dime.