Reading some of the reviews, it appears that a lot of people dislike the character behaviour in this film, apparently annoyed by the protagonists' lack of awareness and the supposed predictability of the plot. I get that, and I don't necessarily disagree, but I still had fun with Who Invited Them.
I think the film needed to do a bit more leg work to establish the dynamics between our main couple, Adam (Ryan Hansen) and Margo (Melissa Tang) a bit better, although I could basically understand what their motivations were. I guess in our hyper-individualistic society, people don't feel the need to want to have friends or seem cool anymore? It didn't seem so foreign to me that these two would overlook some pretty obvious red flags for the purposes of flowering a friendship with a sexy new couple, Tom (Timoth Granaderos) and Sasha (Perry Mattfield).
If this movie was structured a bit differently, and took its time instead of being set in one location, I feel like it would work a bit better. Given how the movie plays out, it makes sense why they chose NOT to do this (and I suspect, budgetary reasons as well), but the film definitely would've benefitted. The contrived subplot with Adam and Margo's friend driving around for the entire movie was really silly and a definite drag on the narrative.
Despite all of this though, I think the four main characters and their actors work well together; they have chemistry and the film is captivating in the sense that you really don't know what direction its going in or what these two want. I figured out the "twist" pretty early, but it didn't stop me from enjoying what I was seeing.
I also liked the bold ending; it was refreshing and unpredictable. Instead of knowing EXACTLY how this movie would go the last 10 minutes or so, I was pleasantly surprised that they threw us for a loop. I'd say check it out.
I think the film needed to do a bit more leg work to establish the dynamics between our main couple, Adam (Ryan Hansen) and Margo (Melissa Tang) a bit better, although I could basically understand what their motivations were. I guess in our hyper-individualistic society, people don't feel the need to want to have friends or seem cool anymore? It didn't seem so foreign to me that these two would overlook some pretty obvious red flags for the purposes of flowering a friendship with a sexy new couple, Tom (Timoth Granaderos) and Sasha (Perry Mattfield).
If this movie was structured a bit differently, and took its time instead of being set in one location, I feel like it would work a bit better. Given how the movie plays out, it makes sense why they chose NOT to do this (and I suspect, budgetary reasons as well), but the film definitely would've benefitted. The contrived subplot with Adam and Margo's friend driving around for the entire movie was really silly and a definite drag on the narrative.
Despite all of this though, I think the four main characters and their actors work well together; they have chemistry and the film is captivating in the sense that you really don't know what direction its going in or what these two want. I figured out the "twist" pretty early, but it didn't stop me from enjoying what I was seeing.
I also liked the bold ending; it was refreshing and unpredictable. Instead of knowing EXACTLY how this movie would go the last 10 minutes or so, I was pleasantly surprised that they threw us for a loop. I'd say check it out.