Til Death Do Us Part | Watch out! This badass bride-to-be is out for blood

From Plaion Pictures comes the blood-splattered action thriller Til Death Do Us Part, which makes its UK digital debut from Monday 15 April 2024.

Natalie Burn and her fellow Fortess (2021) and Fortess: Sniper’s Eye (2022) co-star Ser’Darius Blain reunite in director Timothy Woodward Jr’s 2023 fight fest as a couple whose wedding day turns into a brutal bloodbath when Burn’s Bride-to-be gets cold feet and leave’s Blain’s Groom at the altar.

Holding up at her family’s cabin in the woods, Burn’s Bride soon finds herself facing off her intended’s Best Man (Twilight‘s Cam Gigandet) and his six Groomsmen (including American Gods‘ Orlando Jones) using whatever she can find to take them down – kitchen knife, shovel, golf club, a torn dress and – yep – that old favourite – a chainsaw.

Given her expert fighting skills, this blood-splattered Bride is no ordinary Jane – but a badass heroine with a deadly history. She, the Groom and Groomsmen all work for The University, a shadowy organisation that sub-contracts assassinations to governments around the world.

Now she wants out and a normal life. But after despatching her assailants with deadly force, will she be able to convince her jilted fiancé to join her in escaping from The University’s stranglehold?

Til Death Do Us Part is very much in the 2005’s Mr. & Mrs. Smith mould, minus the comic elements (and the screen chemistry of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt). Where this film works best is with the practical fight sequences, which are expertly staged, especially so Burns (who’s also one of the film’s producers), who brings her ballet background (she trained at the Bolshoi in Moscow and the Royal Ballet in London) to the fore.

The weakest parts, however, are a subplot set on a yacht involving Jason Patric’s grizzled and mysterious Husband, and the film’s ‘final dance’ denouement – which really drags on. Best performance though goes to the annoyingly handsome Gigandet, who brings some fancy footwork – à la Gene Kelly – to his Best Man and gets all the ‘best’ of the film’s corny lines.