It’s bad enough getting yourself into a fight to the death. To do so without realizing it seems a bit cliché. “Fight this guy,” they said. “It will be fun.” Then you find out that neither contestant leaves until the other one is lying flat on their back.
Strictly speaking, Grace isn’t fighting against her new family, but the result is the same. The movie starts on her wedding day. She’s madly in love with Alex Le Domas. What she doesn’t know is that the Le Domas family has a bit of a tradition. When someone becomes a member of the family, they draw a card. She and at least one family member have to play that game. If it’s a game like checkers, it’s no big deal. They just play checkers and that’s it.
There’s one card that’s a death sentence. If you’ve seen the coming attractions, you can guess which game Grace shouldn’t draw. Alex and his brother try to talk Grace out of the wedding on the off chance that she might get Hide and Seek as her game, but they can’t tell her outright. Grace insists, not knowing what she’s getting herself into.
Long ago, great-grandfather Victor Le Domas made a deal with a mysterious businessman. He and his family got rich off of whatever business Victor chose. The catch was that the family was bound by the machine. It would spit out a card every wedding night. If that game was Hide and Seek, the new person has to be sacrificed.
The movie seems a bit excessive. I wonder if it was meant to be that way. Grace has to be taken alive, yet the Le Domas family is armed with lethal weapons. In fact, most of the staff is killed accidentally. It makes you wonder why they don’t use tranquilizer darts, instead. (That would be too simple.)
There’s also a legend that everyone in the family will die a horrible death if they don’t make the sacrifice. They admit that only one other family to make The Deal is rumored to have met this fate, so they can’t be certain that it’s true. But it might be. But it might not be. Maybe it’s better to just catch Grace and sacrifice her. No one wants to be the guy who gets the entire family killed. No pressure. Right?
It seems that satire movies are tending towards the bizarre. This isn‘t the extreme that Sorry to Bother You gave us. I mean, I get where they’re going with this, to some extent. But it does seem excessive. In fact, Alex is the only one that has any sort of reservations about hunting down Grace. Everyone else accepts it like it’s paying for your utilities. Sacrificing Grace is just the cost of business.
There are worse ways to spend 95 minutes. One could easily read into the movie about how the rich have every advantage. Grace grew up a foster kid and is enthralled with the idea of a stable home. If you want to ignore the subtext, the movie is enjoyable. You wouldn’t think you could make a movie out of Hide and Seek, but here it is.
Strictly speaking, Grace isn’t fighting against her new family, but the result is the same. The movie starts on her wedding day. She’s madly in love with Alex Le Domas. What she doesn’t know is that the Le Domas family has a bit of a tradition. When someone becomes a member of the family, they draw a card. She and at least one family member have to play that game. If it’s a game like checkers, it’s no big deal. They just play checkers and that’s it.
There’s one card that’s a death sentence. If you’ve seen the coming attractions, you can guess which game Grace shouldn’t draw. Alex and his brother try to talk Grace out of the wedding on the off chance that she might get Hide and Seek as her game, but they can’t tell her outright. Grace insists, not knowing what she’s getting herself into.
Long ago, great-grandfather Victor Le Domas made a deal with a mysterious businessman. He and his family got rich off of whatever business Victor chose. The catch was that the family was bound by the machine. It would spit out a card every wedding night. If that game was Hide and Seek, the new person has to be sacrificed.
The movie seems a bit excessive. I wonder if it was meant to be that way. Grace has to be taken alive, yet the Le Domas family is armed with lethal weapons. In fact, most of the staff is killed accidentally. It makes you wonder why they don’t use tranquilizer darts, instead. (That would be too simple.)
There’s also a legend that everyone in the family will die a horrible death if they don’t make the sacrifice. They admit that only one other family to make The Deal is rumored to have met this fate, so they can’t be certain that it’s true. But it might be. But it might not be. Maybe it’s better to just catch Grace and sacrifice her. No one wants to be the guy who gets the entire family killed. No pressure. Right?
It seems that satire movies are tending towards the bizarre. This isn‘t the extreme that Sorry to Bother You gave us. I mean, I get where they’re going with this, to some extent. But it does seem excessive. In fact, Alex is the only one that has any sort of reservations about hunting down Grace. Everyone else accepts it like it’s paying for your utilities. Sacrificing Grace is just the cost of business.
There are worse ways to spend 95 minutes. One could easily read into the movie about how the rich have every advantage. Grace grew up a foster kid and is enthralled with the idea of a stable home. If you want to ignore the subtext, the movie is enjoyable. You wouldn’t think you could make a movie out of Hide and Seek, but here it is.
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