Cat Gonzales
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I am riding in the car from El Dorado to Wichita’s AMC movie theatre with my two best friends, getting ready to see Ready or Not directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett. We already had the trailers in the back of our minds and are talking about how we are hoping this movie meets our standards and let me tell you, it did.
Starting off the movie, a long hallway is shown with mystical music in the background as a man dressed as a groom attempts to run away from a family and gets shot with a few arrows and dragged away. You then see a bride in tears walking off the screen and a little boy trying to figure out what he just witnessed.
The plot takes a step forward 30 years to continue the movie.
The young bride, Grace (Samara Weaving), waited to join her soon to be husband, Alex (Mark O’Brien), at his family’s luxurious mansion, but there is one little secret about this family. After the addition of a new family member takes place, the family plays a game before the new member can officially be a part of the family. But if they are unlucky enough, that game includes staying alive until dawn.
The new father-in-law brings a small blue box to the table to find out which game they would be playing.
As the game is being played, her newlywed husband finds her, and he tells her to be quiet and hide on the side of the bed. Waiting for the maid to leave so they can run off, his cousins are shocked by her being in there and shoot her. As the bride watched, the maid gets dragged out of the room by the family. She could not believe her own eyes of what was happening and how this game was being played.
As the game continues throughout the movie, the wild ending will take you by surprise, just as it did for me. Honestly, this movie had a great plot and stellar actors. I give this movie 7.5/10.
