An Average Movie-Goer’s Review
No spoilers! If you would like spoilers – check out the Spoiler post
I love horror movies and if I’m going to watch them anyway, why not write an entertaining/funny review from the POV of an average movie-goer and not a professional critic.
Today we’re looking at 2017’s Ruin Me
A group of strangers enter a horror scavenger hunt billed as “the ultimate horror experience” but quickly discover they’re in real danger as they’re targeted by killers.
Is Ruin Me (2017) Scary?
Nah, there’s a few jump scares but only one real good one. Since the movie is part scavenger hunt the “scares” aren’t good and the movies starts to focus on it’s story halfway through, ignoring the horror.
Overall you won’t be scared by the end of Ruin Me unless you tend you like going to scavenger hunts where they actually kill you.
Review:
Ruin Me is okay. The story is interesting, the pacing and twists definitely keep you entertained but the acting and dialogue are pretty bad in some scenes. The main issue is Alex and Nathan have no chemistry whatsoever, you don’t believe they’re a real couple and it makes all their scenes feel forced.
Every character besides Marina and Tim have some pretty cringey dialogue that will have you rolling your eyes or bored out of your mind. There’s also attempts at crude humor which don’t land. When the players meet the host, Alex accidentally drops a tampon which results in the host making a “joke” about her maybe being on her period.
Later when Alex finds Tim dead, she discovers she has her period. This “plot point” never comes back up so it feels like the writer wrote the period joke, high five themselves and then thought they needed to reference Alex getting her period just to justify the joke. They could have added a plot point where she thought she was pregnant and didn’t know if it was Nathan’s or Jared’s. That at least would have made her getting her period actually have a point in the movie otherwise it feels forced just to make a joke.
Most of Nathan’s dialogue is really bad and the acting suffers for it. Larry is the comedic relief but never says anything funny and having other characters acknowledge he has bad jokes, doesn’t make it okay to make those bad jokes. Pitch and Marina felt like the only characters that were well-rounded and well-acted. Alex has her moments but during the one-on-one scenes with Jared and Nathan, it’s not good.
What saves this movie is the plot. While the ending is pretty predictable especially when Jared shows up, the twists and puzzles along the way are entertaining. There’s also a point where you’re going to question whether Alex really is losing it and those scenes are pretty good, too bad it’s only a few scenes.
Overall I recommend giving Ruin Me a watch but only if you have nothing else to watch and you don’t mind bad dialogue and acting.
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