Enlist today! Aren't you ready to die for your country?
While it's nowhere near as good as its dysfunctional family/friends counterparts: You're Next, Ready or Not, The Collector, and Bodies Bodies Bodies, it would fit right in with a home-invasion marathon with these. And that's nowhere near what I expected, from the poster anyways.
I succeeded in going in cold for this one, sans the poster of a masked man standing at a doorway while holding a syringe. This is my preferred method; I absolutely love being surprised throughout the experience, like with this movie. I *thought* this was a slasher with a medical nutjob. Well, kinda, I guess?
Humane is definitely inhumane, obviously. In the near, and possible future, global warming has Day After Tomorrowed and people are now forced to both use umbrellas whenever in the sun and do whatever it takes to decrease the population. Enter rich, snobbish, opinionated and divided family X of the central plot and get ready to root for the bad guy.
I like movies like these. Movies that start of humorous/hilarious and fun-horror/suspense and eventually and progressively gets dark. Like really dark. And gruesome. Well-done practical gore. (Or at least it appeared practical.)
I also liked the commentary that's incredibly relevant today. We are most certainly a divided (by design) country and this movie is every Thanksgiving meal when the guests have courage.
Plus, I did favor all the backgrounds and the director/writer allowing time for each character to shine leaving really only one that dominated and stole every scene: Bob, the collector. He was definitely my favorite character, even though his slight revelation of who he really is was kinda disappointing. I preferred him indifferent.
I wish this movie was broader, but maybe like The Purge, this'll need a sequel or franchise to break free from the house setting. While I liked what I got in exposition/news clips, I was still a bit confused on the worldbuilding outside of the single-place location.
Still, I definitely recommend this fun and sometimes brutal romp that shouldn't be taken too seriously. A scary popcorn flick, indeed.
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Final Thoughts: My headline was gonna be "Starship Bloopers" with reference to enlisting to a propaganda-soaked government, but thought that would reference more sci-fi/alien invasion movies more. Though, I'd love to see the bloopers for this movie.
