![]() ![]() Other questionable story and direction choices make the movie downright silly. There are also occasional filmmaker mistakes and sloppy one-liners, like, “If you’re so tough, come and get me, you piece-of-shit,” delivered with a deadweight thud. The bachelor party’s dialogue is so unpleasant I wanted the Bride to hurry up and finish them all off already. Not that there is much else to look at: the action sequences are tough to watch between the lackluster fight choreography and the extra shaky camera work during fights that detract from the combatants. The problem with keeping your viewers in the dark about what is happening when and who is attacking who for what reasons is that you can confuse them, and all they can focus on is the mess you’ve made. ![]() Here, it seems like “the university” rules don’t matter or are only meant to be recited through gritted teeth and rewritten but a few moments later. If folks complained that the High Table in the “ John Wick” series was too much, at least it's an ethos with rules. It turns out the “university” that the Bride and Groom joked about on the beach wasn’t an academic setting but some kind of nebulous syndicate of assassins that only seem to kill other assassins. Her groom’s coterie of dimwitted and misogynist bachelors show up, inciting violence. The story jumps back to the couple’s wedding night, where the Bride gets cold feet and runs off to a family cabin to regroup. Later that night, they can’t keep their hands to themselves, earning the judgment of an older couple ( Jason Patric and Nicole Arlyn) who tells them their love will also fade as theirs has. The Bride is flirting and embracing her groom ( Ser'Darius Blain) as they talk along the shore. Then we cut to what looks like a honeymoon on a sandy Puerto Rican beach. ![]() We start at what looks like a stock footage recreation of a wedding, but the Bride ( Natalie Burn) looks uneasy. Instead, screenwriters Chad Law and Shane Dax Taylor keep their audience in the dark, any semblance of world-building or storytelling be damned. Although it resembles the far sleekier “ Ready or Not,” Timothy Woodward Jr.'s actioner “Til Death Do Us Part” never gets near that level of competence. ![]()
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