Reunion | Film Review

When a murder takes place during a high school reunion, a group of old friends find themselves trapped in a mansion, knowing that one of them is the killer.

I hadn't heard of this film before seeing it was available, but I was enticed by the fact that it was a murder mystery, and the fact that it has an amazing cast! 

Unfortunately, despite the amazing cast, the film itself falls flat.

I liked the beginning, the characters were great and the dialogue was actually funny. The film has a lot of comedic actors who do a great job, but even the actors not known for comedy do it really well.

I love the idea of a murder mystery completely rooted in comedy. Movies like Knives Out balance the comedy and mystery well, but something like this, being much more comedic than mysterious, was an interesting change.

In fact, the film starts to lose its way once it leans more into the mystery than the comedy.

Once the tone changes, not much happens for a really long time and we start to forget the great pieces of dialogue we got at the beginning.

The characters needed a lot more development. Because while they were easy to like, we don't really ever start to care about them.

Because of the way the film is paced, it's not long enough to give the audience clues to the mystery, or to provide sufficient evidence, so when things do get revealed, everything feels like it comes completely out of the blue.

Overall, I started off really liking this film, and would have loved it if it completely leaned into and stuck with the humour. But when it started to focus more on the mystery, it lost me.

5/10