You been missing Glenn Rhee? Well check out Steven Yeun's new chaotic flick 'Mayhem!' It's sure to fill a void!

🔧 Mayhem 🔧 Review 🔧 8.5/10 🔧

You been missing Steven Yeun? Well look no further, he's back and in chaotic fashion!

This film was released at the perfect time, in perfect style -- given how fucked the system is and all the democracy and shit that Trump and all the corporate fu**s have stirred up in the U.S. The anger, the rage and the pure frustration that is building up inside everyone from all this bollocks has to go somewhere and this film channels it perfectly.

In Yeun's latest project, Mayhem, he plays Derek, a fired worker who is having the shittest day you could possibly imagine in a corporate law office infected with a virus capable of making people act out their wildest and most violent impulses. The Joe Lynch film is horror-adjacent, but marries its gore perfectly with a healthy dose of social commentary and pitch black humor.

Steven Yeun is on a hole other level in this flick, bringing us an invigorating performance of pure "Mayhem." When you first meet his character, Derek, you instantly get the feel that he is a little weasel willing to do anything (corrupt or otherwise) in order to work his way up the food chain. It doesn't take long to get where he wants to be, but, it doesn't last for that long either. On his way to being escorted off the premises, he comes to an abrupt stop... the building is being quarantined (for 8 hours), nobody in, nobody out! He then makes it his life's mission to battle his way up the floors to the tippy top of the building to face "the 9" (the corporate shit-heads that fired him), he's assisted by client Melanie Cross (Samara Weaving) who was in the building at the time fighting an immoral foreclosure.

Both Yeun and Weaving are fearless and intense in ways that other performers would have missed. Yeun proves himself to be a more engaging leading man than I expected in a totally insane performance and Weaving has the energy of Margot Robbie—captivating and a little scary at the same time.

There are some similarities to the Belko Experiment, but, where that film failed in it's plot and storyline, this film thrives with a great moral we can all relate to, but, then again they both match each other pound for pound in sheer chaotic fun. There was one minor issue, Lynch likes the quick cuts and used a few to many, other than that. Brilliant!

It felt like a movie designed to tap into a vein of frustration and anger at a corrupt system and it is at its best when it channels relatable stress into utter genre insanity.