Ready or Not 2019

     Many times a new husband or wife will make efforts so the in-laws will like them.  Grace is going to have to give it her all if she wants to fit in with her husband’s wealthy dynasty.  They require her to follow a brutal tradition.  The bride will need to survive her wedding night when the rest of the relatives hunt her down.  The matter of class struggles hit the fan in this extremely dark satire film.

     This film is a comedy-horror movie with very graphic violence.  Characters are killed in many ways and die with spurting, pooling blood and gurgling.  This is all for laughs??  Dead bodies are shown with long looks at the injuries.  Other characters drink, get drunk, snort white powder, take pills and seem manic.  There is frequent language and the message is supposed to be about power and wealth.  I did not like this movie, I didn’t get very far into it and I don’t recommend it for viewing!!  1* (I hated this movie)   

95 min, Comedy directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, written by Guy Busick and R. Christopher Murphy with Samara Weaving, Adam Brody, Mark O’Brien, Henry Czerny, Andie MacDowell, Melanie Scrofano, Kristian Bruun, Elyse Levesque, Nicky Guadagni, John Ralston, Liam MacDonald, Ethan Tavares, Hanneke Talbot, Celine Tsai.

Note:  Imdb 6.8 out of 10 with 87,641 reviews, Rotten Tomatoes 88% with 287 critics 78% audience with 4340 ratings, Roger Ebert 3* Scout Tafoya, RollingStone 3 1/2* out of 5* Peter Travers, The Guardian 4* out of 5* Simran Hans, Amazon 4.3* out of 5* with 5481 reviews, Common Sense Media Joyce Slaton, 3* out of 5*, age 16+, 1* positive messages, 2*role models, 5* violence, 2* sex, 4* language, 1* consumerism, 3* drinking drugs & smoking.

Special Note:  Seventeen different versions of Grace’s wedding dress were created by costume designer Avery Plewes to show the progress of Grace’s night.  Her clothes correspond to her attitude at that moment.  There were just five candelabras so they had to keep moving them around to illuminate rooms and hallways.  A producer was accidentally stabbed with a rope knife.  Adam Brody was playing around and he thought the blade was retractable?  The producer received 8 stitches to his shoulder and he returned to the set later that day.  Grace’s yellow Chuck Taylor sneakers were custom painted for this film because Converse no long makes yellow.  The Le Domas family empire of board games is based on the former game manufacturers Milton Bradley Company and Parker Brothers.  These games are now owned by Hasbro.