Would You Rather (2012) 7/10

Starring : Brittany Snow, Jeffrey Combs, Jonny Coyne, Lawrence Gillard Jr, Logan Miller, Enver Gjokaj, Sasha Grey, John Heard, Charlie Hofheimer, Eddie Steeples, June Squibb, Robin Lord Taylor, Robb Wells
Director : David Guy Levy
Running Time : 94 mins

Iris (Snow) is desperate to help her brother out with his medical expenses, so her brother’s oncologist Dr Barden (Gillard Jr) introduces her to a philanthropist named Shepard Lambrick (Combs) who invites her to a dinner party. When she arrives she discovers that his plan is to play a deadly parlour game in which the last man standing is awards his help.

This was an intriguing movie, though it doesn’t leave much to the imagination. The whole idea doesn’t sound that original, but by building the tension up slowly things are made far more interesting. The ending is something of a surprise, though for tainted viewers who expect the unexpected it is kind of obvious, and the predictability of who survives the dinner party will come as no surprise, though it would have been nice if someone else had won the game, though the final shock probably wouldn’t have worked with that happening.

You’ll like this if you liked : Saw III