Would you rather movie review

Cast: Brittany Snow, Jeffrey Combs, Jonny Coyne, Robin Taylor

Director: David Guy Levy

 The movie is about one dinner party where life and death decisions must be made.The participants must play a game of "would you rather" which will test their strength,humanity and self preservation.So let the games begin...

  The movie starts off with the background story of Brittany Snow and how she gets pulled into the dinner.It shows her sick brother and her struggles.Everything is very believable and comes from real life.She later decides to attend the dinner hosted by Jeffrey Combs which as she was promised will help with her brother's operation.During the event she and seven other contestants find out how disturbed the hosts and the games really are.The emotions during the game are a lot and they are greatly portrayed by the actors through their characters.Every decision they make has an effect to the viewer and their thought proses is,also, clearly shown.I loved how everyone reacted to their turn and i was at the edge of my seat the entire time.Furthermore,i found that each "would you rather" was exactly what it needed to be to make the decisions extremely hard for all the attendants.I,also, really liked Robin Taylor's character and how he was portrayed as wealthy with no sense of reality and how he was raised into this lifestyle by his father.Finally,i thought the whole concept of the game was very realistic and believable.I wouldn't be surprised if this has actually happen.

  One of my biggest dislikes about the movie was Sasha Grey's character.And it wasn't because of her cruelty, it was because i found her character unrealistic.If she just had the mentality that she had to do anything to win, it would have been fine but she enjoyed herself at the begging and after a while she,out of the blue, started being quite and sad about the whole thing.To make it more convincing the movie added a short storyline about her husband and daughter.I thought the background story was rushed and unrealistic for the character Grey was supposed to be at the begging of the movie.Moreover, there is a little subplot about last year's winner and how he, suddenly, had a change of heart and decided to go save Snow.I found that unnecessary and i though it added nothing to the actual plot.Also, Snow's character at some point during the game gets stab in the ribs and, although, the old lady died from a stab in the leg Snow seems to be fine after a while.Further,in the last decision Snow contradicted, extremely, her earlier behavior,especially since Enver Gjokaj was the one that helped her the most in all the rounds.In my opinion Snow's character would have picked the option for both of them to leave the house empty handed instead of killing him for the money.Finally, i found the ending completely unnecessary.The movie was not about what would happen to Snow's brother but what she was willing to do to save him.The feeling we were supposed to have at the end of the movie wasn't despair that she had to do all those things but she still ended up losing her brother but it was shock and disgust about the brutality and inhumanity of the game. 

  In conclusion, i thought the movie was very powerful for the most of it and it is worth a watch.

Score:73%

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