The Guest is about a family who's son died fighting in the War on Terror. After he, Caleb, dies, a supposed friend of his from the corp comes to check on the family to fulfill Caleb's dying wish. He keeps getting goaded into staying for a few more days by the family since he doesn't have anywhere to go and eventually things get weird.
The problem, at least for me, came once he got invited to the daughter, Anna's, party she was going to. When Anna's friend Kristen needs protection from her uninvited ex-boyfriend, the guest, David, basically pounds him into the wall like he's the Terminator. After that, I figured he was part of some kind of military experiment and was super strong and crazy and had no morals etc.
Well guess what, that's pretty much what happened. Except they had to keep elongating the movie and trying to drop hints for something I figured out in the first twenty five minutes. He kills people. He wants guns. People go missing, etc. Etc. And guess what: it was all him! No way!
Eventually Anna gets suspicious after she hears David outside early in the morning talking to god knows who about god knows what and then she asks about him to a military base. Things go up the flagpole until it reaches Daniels from The Wire and now I'm really wondering where the fireworks factory is because it's probably another twenty minutes from there that Daniels gets to the middle of nowhere house that the family is in.
Then once he finally does get there, things get awesome. There are people getting shot constantly, the mom getting shanked, the Dad getting head-on-collisioned for no reason other than David being a short circuiting military psycho. Eventually Daniels gathers Anna and they go and find the helmet haired future Bama bangs having son, Luke, while he's in detention after David turned into Johnny Cochran to get his expulsion for violence turned into afternoon detention planning for a Halloween dance.
David somehow but not surprisingly beats them there and then they have their final epic standoff. Daniels dies and Luke kills David with the Swiss Army knife David gave him earlier. But then they don't find his body and he's shown escaping. No way! Except Anna sees him going away and instead of telling the cops that the murderer's getting away, she just says "what the f***" and the movie ends.
Do we have to wait for the sequel for him to get his head blown off? I don't get it. There's no way out of there since she knows he's there and he's injured and limping. Jeez.
(image from teaser poster of the movie-not created by me, but by the studio. Yay legal reasons)
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Anyway, post-The Guest, I guess I have to put it 2nd on my list this summer, but get ready for it to drop precipitously.
1. Frank
2. The Guest
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