Except that game is “Hide and Seek,” and these Le Domas’s play for keeps. Grace is a salty, free-spirited woman who makes her own decisions, and she doesn’t regret Alex’s “You wanted this” proviso, even on the wedding night, when their conjugal bliss is postponed by a family “ritual.” The new bride must pass muster by playing a game.įine. That prologue with little boys fleeing the mayhem of some sort of murderous hunt, decades before, through the halls of stately Le Domas Hall? Think nothing of it. We’re getting the “She’ll never be one of us” vibe from the future in-laws, although Alex’s mother ( Andie MacDowell, in fine form), who also married into the “dominion,” pooh poohs her fears that “your blood will never be blue enough.” Alex (Mark O’Brian) dotes on her, jokes about the family’s board game empire - “We prefer ‘dominion.” And he offers her, in her white dress all set to walk down the aisle, “an out.” Grace (Samara Weaving, from “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri”) is marrying into the uber-rich Le Domas (snort) family.
Ready or not cast movie#
It’s a horror movie as social satire, about the rich hunting and killing their “inferiors.” You know, similar in plot to “The Hunt,” the one Fox News and Trump got pulled from release.īut the satire here turns limp as the supernatural is introduced.Īnd when you build your film on that classic foundation, the humans-hunt-humans/hunters-become-the-hunted formula invented as “The Most Dangerous Game,” you tamper with that formula at your own peril. I can hardly wait.“Ready or Not” is a “Get Out” that doesn’t quite get it, a “Purge” that pulls its most important punches.
The audience, needless to say, cheers on every new bout of carnage, all but ensuring the film's status as a late-night cult classic, complete with a public sure to show up dressed to match their favourite malefactor. As it is, this collaboration between co-directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett honours any number of antecedents (thirty seconds of Rosemary's Baby is more compelling than anything on view here), while itself catering to an age that values mayhem and noise, regardless of whether those arrive grounded in any reality whatsoever, however alternative. And though Alex (a rather wet Mark O'Brien) makes vague moves towards assisting the woman he purports to love, before long he succumbs to the gathering anarchy of an assemblage presided over by a scarily gaunt Andie MacDowell as a matriarch in extremis. Along for the grand guignol ride are Adam Brody as a marginally less bloodthirsty, drink-sodden brother and Nicky Guadagni as Aunt Helene – every family has one – here coiffed to resemble no-one so much as Emma Rice.Ĭommentators in some overenthusiastic quarters have taken Guy Busick and R Christopher Murphy's script as a kind of encoded feminist statement, an assertion requiring quite a lot of pre-film alcoholic lubrication to pass muster. (One or two of Grace's newfound relations are here given haircuts intended to evoke their iconic forbears.) And coming from virtually no family of her own, Grace very mistakenly accepts her husband Alex's extended brood as the family she never had, and so what if marriage into the Le Domas clan involves the kind of eyebrow-raising initiation that might prompt most sensible brides to run a mile? Lovers of games, the Le Domas assemblage quickly suggest a round of hide-and-seek, only for Grace to realise fairly early on that this apparent lark represents an armed fight to the finish: the weaponry on view includes guns, a crossbow, and both a literal and figurative battle axe. The fast-rising Australian actress-model Samara Weaving ( pictured below) stars as the about-to-be-married Grace, who has no idea that her beyond-creepy inlaws make The Addams Family look like pillars of normalcy. 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.
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