Til Death Do Us Part (2023)

Til-Death-Do-Us-Part-(2023)
Til Death Do Us Part (2023)

The polish of Timothy Woodward Jr’s action film “Til Death Do Us Part” is nowhere close to that of the far more stylish “Ready or Not,” and this further diminishes the competency of the latter. So instead, Chad Law and Shane Dax Taylor, the film’s screenwriters, opt to keep their audience in the dark, which leads to a complete dearth of worldbuilding and lore.

We open with what seems to be stock footage of a wedding. However, the bride, played by Natalie Burn, does not seem to be thrilled. After that, we cut to a Puerto Rican sandy beach that seems to be the location for their honeymoon. She is engaging in some light petting with her groom, Ser’Darius Blain, as they stroll along the shore. Later that night, she and her husband get intimate, earning the judgment of older couple Jason Patric and Nicole Arlyn, who claim that their love for one another will subside just as theirs has.

The story now intrigues, as the couple’s wedding night is shown. The couple’s wedding night depicts the groom’s bride getting cold feet and escaping to a family cabin. Where, the groom’s friends, who are all unintelligent and misogynistic bachelors, chase her, inciting violence. To the viewers’ surprise, the implied ‘university’ the bride and the groom pampered on the beach was not an academic setting, but purely a fictitious covenant passes. The grooms know there’s only one rule to the universe and that it’s filled with nebulous assassins, ready to kill other assassins. If people thought the High Table in John Wick was too much, this claim provides a sense of reason – an ethos with rules.

From what it seems, the rules of the university don’t apply here or they are spoken of only to be written down a moment later.

One of the problems you can encounter when you leave your audience confused about what’s going on, who is attacking who, and for what reason, is that you may confuse them and in the center of the mess you’ve created. Not that there is much else to admire: the action sequences are difficult to endure, the fighting choreography is poorly designed, and the ultra-shaky cam employed during the bouts is exhaustingly annoying. The bachelor party dialogue is so badly written I wished the bride would just get on with it, and kill all the rest of them already.

There are even more occasional mistakes made by the filmmakers and sloppily written lines such as, ‘If you’re so tough, come and get me, you piece of shit.’ These are cringe-worthy to the point of disbelief. Other such dubious line choices and direction make the film plain stupid. We are treated to another crucial backstory component to add more to the already chaotic wedding parts spliced with the beach honeymoon, and voila, it ends with a similarly shocking and ridiculous hat. At this point, it’s satire.

If your action film lacks on the action side, is there any way to save it? Not in “Til Death Do Us Part”. It feels as if Burn could be a cross between The Kill Bill Bride, but her inability to emote anything other than a scowl for the majority of the movie flattens her performance. Her main antagonist, The Best Man (Cam Gigandet) is more of a nuisance than a scary character, especially when accompanied by a bunch of guys with nicknames like T-Bone and Big Sexy. Blain, as the Groom, is in very few scenes, yet somehow manages to portray an overbearing boyfriend, a cunning sidekick, and a charming suitor all at once. This is perhaps the most impressive performance in the film.

Regardless, none of these subplots fit into the grand scheme. This lack of cohesion extends to the movie’s narrative, cinematography, and acting. It is incredibly boring and unimaginative; tired exchanges of both words and actions metaphorically beat the audience down. Long before the credits started rolling, I wanted a divorce.

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