Wednesday, April 15, 2026

They Will Kill You


 Introduce Zazie Beetz as a bad ass with a sad backstory on a quest to find/save/avenge her sister and add in a mix of Heather Graham, Tom Felton and Patricia Arquette as key member of a satanic cult who cannot be killed and you get They Will Kill You. Weirdly this movie came out the same time as a similarly themed Ready or Not 2: Here I Come. While I haven't yet seen RoN2 yet, They Will Kill You was my most anticipated movie of the year. I really like cult movies and a killer heroine only makes that better. 

Zazie Beetz is awesome as Asia Reaves and shines in the action scenes, that are truly the highlight of the movie. There isn't too much to dig into here, and it does an effective job of making this tiny snippet of the world feel "real." The acting is a bit over the top, but that's not entirely a bad thing in a movie like this. There is a scene that truly gives you the ick, men really suck, but it doesn't last too long and there's hell to pay for the act. Honestly this is not the best movie I've seen this year, not even close, but it was entertaining enough and I will buy it (when it goes on sale, I don't buy anything full price anymore). If you're interested in it at all, give it a watch at some point, it's well done. If you want something similar and probably better the first Ready or Not and Gunpowder Milkshake are both objectively better.



7/10

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