Written by Guy Busick And R. Christopher Murphy
Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin And Tyler Gillett
Grace (to Alex): "I want a divorce."
Ah, wedded life, eh? It should be the greatest thing in the world but for this movie, an argument can definitely be made for being single. Or at the very least researching your betrothed's family.
That was definitely something that the slightly mysterious Grace (Samara Weaving) should've done. Aside from being revealed as a foster child, there's not much else revealed about Grace as a character. That's not a criticism in a sense, just an observation. She's a bit of a blank canvass as a character who ended up getting thrown into quite the life and death situation.
Marrying into the obscenely wealthy Le Domas family by marrying son, Alex (Mark O'Brien), Grace knew that the family she was marrying into didn't quite like her but she wasn't prepared for a game of hide and seek that would end up in a ritual sacrifice if she was caught.
It seemed that a long time ago, the Le Domas family made a deal with Belial and every once in a while they have to sacrifice someone marrying into the family or they die themselves. This was something that parents Tony (Henry Czerny) and Becky (Andie MacDowell) were keen to avoid, being the most determined to avoid death along with daughter, Emelie (Melanie Scrofano), aunt Helene (Nicky Guadagni) and daughter in law, Charity (Elyse Levesque).
All of these characters along with Emelie's idiotic husband, Fitch (Kristian Bruun) and the butler, Stevens (John Ralston) go out of their way to try and kill Grace but most of the time, it was the unfortunate staff getting killed instead. Meanwhile alcoholic son Daniel (Adam Brody) went from trying to kill Grace to helping her survive until the crack of dawn.
As for Grace and Alex's relationship, it was never going to survive this and predictably, it didn't. Alex did try to help Grace for most of the movie and did seem reluctant to actually help his family kill her but he also turned on her too and sealed his own fate. In the end, Grace barely got out of this movie alive.
- Guy Busick and James Vanderbilt, both of whom would go on to write the fifth and sixth Scream movies have very brief cameos in the movie.
- The opening flashback saw Helene's husband go through the same game. Needless to say, he didn't survive but Helene felt a bond with Alex, who saw Belial as a child.
- Standout music: Love Me Tender, The Hide & Seek Song and Bossa Noches.
- Chronology: The flashback was in the 1980s with this movie being set in the 2010s.
Ready Or Not was a blast of a movie. A great but deadly take on Hide and Seek with a top notch cast, some inventive kills and a comeuppance for the family reminiscent of hiw vampires used to die in True Blood. Great stuff.
Rating: 8 out of 10
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