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It's a snack, not a meal, so don't go in too hungry.Nonsensical on virtually every level and as badly acted as it is written and directed, this celluloid amalgam of comedy and horror wears its coolness on a distinctly blood-spattered sleeve: my sympathies go out to all involved. But though it clearly longs for the same relevance, it's no Get Out. In short, as a better-than-average thriller, Ready or Not deserves a look.

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But having working people bite the dust along with the idle rich muddles the point, and it's disconcerting that the movie seems to save most of its goriest violence for female characters. About the most biting barb it can muster is 'F-king rich people!' And it's probably supposed to be funny that the house's domestic help, including a trio of identically dressed maids in five-inch heels, suffers along with the Le Domases.

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(Where else would one turn to other than YouTube to learn how to operate an antique crossbow?) But ultimately, the movie's messages about 'the one percent' don't land. Kristian Bruun (we'll save you the search - you recognize him from Orphan Black and The Handmaid's Tale) is good, too, as Grace's bumbling new brother-in-law two of the film's most inspired gags are his, as he casually plays with his phone during the family's long night. The cast is the other five-star aspect of Ready or Not, from Weaving's easy charm and relatable bad-assery to Andie MacDowell's sweet-and-sour matriarch to, most particularly, Nicky Guadagni's breakout performance as Aunt Helene, who glowers like no glowerer has ever glowered on film. She's lit with a golden glow that's no doubt meant to point up how good she is - how very, very good, particularly when compared with her evil new in-laws. There's a lot to love here, starting with Ready or Not's visual look: The camera stalks polished wood hallways and finds the creepy shadows and hollows in every face except Grace's. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails.Ĭoming off like a mash-up between The Purge and Clue, this stalk-and-slash thriller swings and misses at pointed social commentary, but it's bloody good fun anyway.

This movie obviously intends to make points about power and wealth, but the messages are muddled. Frequent language includes 'f-k,' 'motherf-r,' 'bitch,' 'a-hole,' and more. Sex is confined to a mention of a couple's 'boneathon' and a scene in which they kiss fully clothed and one tells the other to 'take off your pants' (he doesn't). Other characters drink and act sloppy and hostile, snort white powder, and take unnamed pills and seem manic and out of it.

Several characters smoke prominently, including a scene in which the main character smokes calmly in front of an apocalyptic scene. Dead bodies are shown at length, including a long look at a severed head during a comic argument. Many deaths are presented as comic or unimportant: Some characters die just after doing something that the movie views as bad, for example, and others who've had no lines are dispatched bloodily, after which survivors argue about who has to clean up the 'mess.' Small children participate in the violence some are killed in over-the-top bloody scenes. Characters are dispatched in many ways (bludgeoned, shot, crushed) and die with spurting, pooling blood and gurgling in agony and terror - all of which the movie plays for laughs. Parents need to know that Ready or Not is a comedy-horror movie with extremely graphic violence.

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