{"id":40576,"date":"2023-08-05T20:45:21","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T00:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=40576"},"modified":"2023-08-07T13:17:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T17:17:58","slug":"til-death-do-us-part-2023-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/05\/til-death-do-us-part-2023-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Til Death Do Us Part (2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Damnit. Timothy Woodward Jr\u2019.s \u201cTil Death Do Us Part\u201d is a wonderful idea, one ripe for a great horror comedy with a ton of action and what we ultimately got was just\u2026 not what I was completely expecting. Granted, the movie does have a wonderful grasp on what it\u2019s trying to do, but the delivery just felt off. It\u2019s a movie that clocks in at almost two hours, and rather than charge in head first with the laughs and action. Instead the movie takes a lot of time, at least twenty or thirty minutes, establishing the initial storyline and back story.<\/p>\n

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After running away on her wedding day, a bride-to-be must fight for survival against her former fianc\u00e9 and his seven deadly groomsmen. In the ultimate horror showdown, the groomsmen soon discover that she has no intention of going back to the life she left behind.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a whole ten minutes of just exploring the romance between main characters leading us down what is utter misdirection. Only when \u201cThe Bride\u201d begins striking at the grooms men that launch an all out assault on her does the movie actually feel like its taking shape. There\u2019s a lot of dependence on the audience from Chad Law and Shane Dax Taylor\u2019s script to be committed enough to follow along, and the narrative just isn\u2019t interesting enough. I mean how do you promise such a fun premise and then spend all the run time on setting everything up? Director Woodward could easily have chopped off twenty minutes and committed to a tighter action thriller.<\/p>\n

It would have benefited the whole movie, in the long run. For the most part, Natalia Burn as \u201cThe Bride\u201d is fine enough, but I just didn\u2019t care enough about her character. Meanwhile folks like Orlando Jones and Jason Patric just feel wasted and under utilized, all the while Cam Gigandet never quite carries the movie to the finish line. That said once the movie gets rolling with the action scenes, they are pretty entertaining, and it\u2019s fascinating how they include Pancho Moler (one of my favorite genre actors) as one of the groomsmen and never resort to cheap gags with his character. Timothy Woodward Jr.\u2019s direction sadly does a disservice to the intended action set pieces not really successfully building tension or sucking us in to the chaos.<\/p>\n

I wish Woodward had opted for a less murky aesthetic that embraced the inherent camp and gonzo tone of the premise. \u201cTil Death Do Us Part\u201d should have been a slam dunk, but it\u2019s ill-conceived, and hindered by an overlong run time, and so much padding and filler.<\/p>\n

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Damnit. Timothy Woodward Jr\u2019.s \u201cTil Death Do Us Part\u201d is a wonderful idea, one ripe for a great horror comedy with a ton of action and what we ultimately got was just\u2026 not what I was completely expecting. Granted, the movie does have a wonderful grasp on what it\u2019s trying to do, but the delivery […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[58,259,840,874,1012,1087],"class_list":["post-40576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-action","tag-dark-comedy","tag-revenge","tag-romance","tag-survival","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40576"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40586,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40576\/revisions\/40586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}