Ready or Not (2019)

Fantastic watch, will watch again, and do recommend.
This is such a great crazy, survivalist premise: an average lady that just wants to marry her man gets served up into a human hunting game, and she's a bad ass. Samara Weaving nails every aspect of this role. I did recognize a couple other actors: Melanie Scrofano (Wyanna Earp), Adam Brody, and Andie MacDowell, but none of the family really stands out other than Melanie, and that is more of circumstance, but they put the right person in that role at least.
The setting is limited to the estate grounds, but even if they built the sets for that place, it is bloody amazing and lends to the visuals both when they're displaying the house as being expansion and when they're showing it as a trap.
I'm actually short on words to why it is as good as it is, the writing is top notch and the set it great, but the acting is only good (other than Samara), and there aren't huge effects. Maybe it's the subtly of the effects they do show, and the details they go into in both presentation of the scene and the chosen dialogue. This movie definitely creates a permeable atmosphere for the audience.
If you're okay with blood / gore / violence, then give it a go, it should be a good time.

**The evil of money, a brutal carnage and a marriage for love in a movie of ups and downs.**
How many times we, common contributors, do not think of the hypothetical dark side that would like to exist in those rich families of business, politics and the arts? For many people, envy is very natural. Others, like me, are more concerned with the lawful origin of fortunes (what matters to me is that the rich honestly earn their money, the rest I feel it does not concern me) and others think that, since money is so earthly and perhaps evil, all great fortunes have some dose of perversity. Unlike people like me, who face money as a tool that can be well used or not, there are a lot of people who associate this malevolent load with money.
This movie begins around this wealthy family and creates a story of Satanism, carnage and lack of scruples. Everything is set on the wedding of the Patriarch's firstborn son. The young bride, for his family to accept her, will have to play a mysterious traditional game that they all have to play at a given moment. A crazy initiation ritual in a hunting room full of weapons and embalmed animals. What follows is the predictable carnage. And I say predictable because the movie is stupidly easy to guess, which is the weak point of the plot. As a horror movie, it will only work for those who have a weak stomach for bloody scenes: yes, the movie has a lot of gore, but I've seen worse.
Technically, the movie has its ups and downs. Taking advantage of the places that the production has achieved to shoot in Canada, including a famous museum-mansion, sets and costumes are excellent and worthy of a much more expensive thing. It is not a low-budget movie, it is obvious the producer has invested in the project, but it does not seem to be the first bet for a movie season: convincing and effective visual and sound effects help a lot and the editing was well performed. The soundtrack has its moments, but in contrast, cinematography is excessively trembled and occasionally poorly framed.
With such apparently heavy bets, it was a shame to feel the production went to seek a third-ranking cast. The protagonists are not bad, but they lack the experience of first water projects with more calloused colleagues: Samara Weaving made a secondary character in “Three Billboards…”, Mark O'Brian went to do another in “Arrival” and Adam Brody participated In “Mr. & Mrs. smith ”, but it's that. They are actors competing for their space in the sunlight, a rightful desire, but without experience and perhaps a little raw. Truth be told, the movie also does not give them challenging characters or complex situations. The best actress here is Andie MacDowell, but it is far from showing the qualities we saw in her oldest work. Canadian Henry Czerny does what he can and is remarkable, but cannot save the movie alone.