Travis Heinicke

So this movie was a pass most nights while my wife and I were scrolling through rentals. Nothing really made it stand out as a movie we wouldn't be interested in, but the trailer didn't really stand out either. Finally, we said "screw it, we are almost out of movies to watch." and we went for it. All I can say is that I'm happy we did. The movie has some political commentary in it, for sure...but I think the director did an amazing job of painting the deplorables and the undesirables exactly how they should have been: extremists on far ends of the left and right. Anyone who didn't see the humor in the depiction takes their politics way too seriously. And I can tell you, I have not seen Betty Gilpin in many rolls...but she absolutely owned this one. Her snappy banter, quick-to-action manner and dead pan acceptance of her plight was unerringly brilliant. Sure, the entire premise of the movie was borderline absurd...but I think that was kind of the point. My older teenage boys and my adult daughter watched it with us...they all thought it was great as well.

The movie was fairly well done. Samara weaving excelled at going from naive to nasty in the correct amount of time it would take a normal human being to do so. The family is wickedly fun to love and hate...and you'll find yourself jumping between the two emotions routinely throughout the film. Some of the movie is a bit trite. I appreciate the character of the brother, but it the movie would have still stood up with Samara alone being the hero that his addition was fairly unnecessary. I will tell you the last 5 minutes of the movie was so diabolically hilarious and it caught me off guard so completely...the ending alone was worth the watch. It's action packed, full of great punch lines and gore...a perfectly good late night watch.