The most glaring problem with this movie, right from the start is the acting, or should I say, the lack of it. Megan fox (Emma, the leading female character) is beautiful but her acting performance is stiff and shallow; I've never seen her in a film before but based on this showing I'd say she's a bit short of talent and charisma. Eoin Macken (Mark) her husband and the rest of the cast don't do much better---I see no stellar acting going on in this flick. Basically, this is what I call a "situation" movie; in this case its's one where most of the story revolves around a situation where Emma finds herself handcuffed to her husband's dead body and unable to free herself she spends a good deal of on-screen time just dragging him around. Mark had discovered his wife was having an affair and on their eleventh wedding anniversary he took Emma to their secluded lake house in the middle of winter, supposedly to celebrate but instead of celebrating he had a darker, more nefarious plan for her, a plan in which he would chain himself to her and then commit suicide, leaving his wife to die afterwards alongside him. This slow-moving scenario is tedious enough to watch but then to complicate things (and make a horror movie out of it), two men previously known to the couple show up at the house believing there are diamonds in the house safe and plan to steal them. So, there you have it, the basic elements of this story; a bad husband with malicious intent towards his wife, a cheating wife who ends up handcuffed to her dead husband, two thieves looking to steal diamonds from their lake house---and all of this is happening in the dead of winter---! Combine these elements together in a poorly written screen play with a lousy script and you have the makings for another waste-of-time movie. I give it a 3.5 rating.
Review of Till Death
