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Okay, last review of the night, I promise. Staying with Netflix again, we got their newish horror film Choose Or Die. This movie has such a good plot idea that is used pretty well but could have been done so much better with a little more work. But they do go there and I loved that about it. Iola Evans is pretty good here and makes herself into a good female protagonist. Asa Butterfield is fun here but I feel like he wasn’t giving it his all, I hate to say it but it felt like he was catching a check between seasons of Sex Education (which I really need to watch!). Robert Englund makes a couple fun voice cameos as himself and why he’s the voice is never really explained. Literally no one else is on screen long enough for me to care enough to discuss them here. With just the two main characters the film feels very empty and I think they could have done a lot more showing us other people playing this game. The idea of a game that messes with reality to discover if a player is worthy of the reward at the end is really good. But again, they could have done so much more with it. Like, the final round had such a cool idea to it that could have been so much better with some better directing and acting, with better stakes and a longer runtime. I think this movie should get a sequel with a new creative team behind it that can show the true potential of the idea proposed. This just felt like the exact elevator pitch that was given and not fleshed out beyond that. So much more world building could have been done. But what world building is here is pretty good and goes into the supernatural which I was afraid it wouldn’t. There aren’t enough decent supernatural horror films, granted this isn’t that scary, another thing they could have done better as well. They went down more of a saw route but I think combining horror with the saw self mutilation could have been really good. At the end, Choose or Die gets a 6/10 from me. It’s a decent movie that could have been executed much better. I don’t have anything else to say about it, it’s such a short film, only an hour and twenty minutes which makes it feel rushed. It’s worth a watch because the idea is really cool. -Tyler.
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