Saw Ready or Not, a silly little dark comedy/thriller about a pretty little blonde woman marrying into a rich, crazy, murderous family. During weddings they apparently sometimes play murder-based games. It's all explained in the trailer. The film was okay, but not really as fun as I'd hoped. It was light on puzzles, logic, and intrigue and heavy on torture porn. Not that it's all that bloody, just there's a lot of poor blonde girl suffering and not a lot of gamesmanship.
The film is darkly comical in parts. One of the murderous family members keeps accidentally killing people and it's always sudden and funny and outrageous. There's some understated and almost too-real humor in the kids who are gleefully on-board with all the murder. The film never really stays funny though. There's some annoying on-star-type guy who refuses to help her because she's swearing. This is supposed to be funny but I found it just frustrating. Similarly, other goofy stuff just annoyed me.
The husband also annoyed me. He explains that he never told her (his wife) about this tradition because if he had she wouldn't have married him. Huge warning flag right there. First: that's her decision to make and second: that's pretty manipulative. What other half-truths and omissions have you passed in the name of capturing her, dude? He bugged me.
Anyway, the film is alright. I was expecting something more like Knives Out but this was less interested in typing loose ends than just watch this girl scrape up her back on an iron fence. There's some class criticism going on, but it's not very serious (it starts and ends with an ironic "rich people are different.") It's not a miserable slog however and with better expectations, I think I would have had an alright time, but alas here I am all disappointed that the film didn't live up to the one in my head.
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