Review #31: Most Likely to Die (2015)

This review was originally written in October 2017.

Most Likely to Die is about a bunch of young adults having a party for their ten-year high school reunion, and then people start dying one by one (in accordance with their "Most Likely to..." titles- so, the one Most Likely to Eat Anything is killed by having a lacrosse stick shoved down his throat, and so on).

There are some serious issues with this movie. First, this is their ten-year reunion, which means I've been out of high school longer than they have. Do high schools still do "Most Likely to..." awards? If so, do they include things that equate to "Class Drunk" and "Class Slut"? From what I can tell that trend started dying out in the 80's, and by the time I graduated (again, a few years BEFORE this movie's graduation would have taken place) the awards were so incredibly tame and noncommittal that nobody gave them any weight whatsoever. (I was "Class Vocalist", because I was... in choir? That's all?) So the fact that in 2005 a high school is calling out its students as being drunks and sluts seems like a huge anachronism to me. Also, what are the odds that every single person in a given group of friends are going to win one of those titles? But I guess the movie wouldn't have made sense if two or three of the characters didn't have any sort of trait the killer could have used for his theatrics.

Also, the killer was sneaking around stalking people in a bright blue graduation gown (in the middle of a red/brown New Mexico environment) and a bladed mortarboard. And the last two minutes of the movie tried to act like there were two killers, despite nothing else in the movie allowing that to be true.

All in all, a fun movie unless you think about literally anything that's happening.

Score: 5/10 Idiotically themed weapons

Biggest name in this movie: Jake Busey, who has like thirty seconds of screen time