Skillhouse

Interesting premise for a movie but it tends to feel like its copying from the saw movies.

I thought a lot of the acting was a bit wooden and the set and costume design felt really cheap.

However, Bryce Hall is the man, I love him very much!

I heard the guy who produced this is the same guy who kicked off the marvel franchise, which would explain why it is produced so well.

It is however a shame that the producer is targeted so much by a youtuber who will try and get his audience to review bomb the movie.

Although, I did enjoy watching it while drinking wine, I did have a bit too much wine but I didn't get wet and reckless.

"Skillhouse" begins with Carter Swick and his sister Lauren filming a video for a social media platform called "Triller." They are attacked and it is a media sensation, but three months later the attacker is back and this time he has kidnapped ten people for his "Social Media Game"...

"Skillhouse" is another in a long line of "Psycho kidnaps influencers and makes them compete for "Likes" for their lives" movies. All the typical tropes are here -- incredibly annoying characters that we hate from the get-go, a psycho who can somehow control time and space, long rambling speeches about "This is not real life" and "Is this what you want to see", thousands of people watching without calling the police, "rules" that change on a whim, etc, etc... And I'm not sure the writer really "gets" social media, if you watch the movie you will definitely say, "No way in real life that person got the "least views" of that entire group."

On the plus side, though, the body count is impressive with some gruesome kills, and only a couple of shoddy CGI effects to hurt the set pieces. Overall, there's nothing really new in "Skillhouse" and there are plenty of better "Influencer Kidnapped" movies out there, but it moves along pretty quickly. Nothing original or special, just sort of "OK."

Skillhouse fits the bill for an all around decent and entertaining watch - imagine influencers trapped within a mansion in LA Saw style with 50 Cent as the Jigsaw figure, it's as awesome and hilarious as it sounds.

Dialog and acting aside some nitpicking scenes of underwhelming responses is nothing to complain about. Kills, gore and progression isn't terrible nor a complaint either. The pacing is akin again, to saw, characters getting picked off, some suspense on who's next and thensome with some pretty successful comedy thrown in. Overall nothing entirely unique or groundbreaking, but works heavily with the content it aims to tackle - that being a dark, comedic whodunit with Saw tropes sprinkled about. Watch this film if you want something to laugh at, something to enjoy with some friends or something to bluntly enjoy; 50 Cent as a Jigsaw, despite his recent attempts to sue is worth watching. Post credit sequence and all.