Blink Twice (2024)
- mildspoilers
- Jan 28, 2025
- 2 min read
When tech billionaire Slater King meets cocktail waitress Frida at his fundraising gala, he invites her to join him and his friends on a dream vacation on his private island. As strange things start to happen, Frida questions her reality.
Main Cast:
Naomi Ackie
Channing Tatum
Alia Shawkat
Geena Davis
Christian Slater
Main Crew:
Directed by Zoe Kravitz
Written by Zoe Kravitz and E.T. Feigenbaum
Edited by Kathryn J. Shubert
Moving back to small-town Oregon, I knew I wouldn't be seeing movies at the rate I was in Colorado... especially with the Alamo Season Pass. But the local theatre always did me right so I thought I would have the chance to see films. Long story short, the original owners sold, and the new owners are horrible.
This film is streaming on Prime Video, so I fired it up when I got off work early last night.
Zoe Kravits' directorial debut displays a competent director clearly helming their first film. Having written the film, with help from E.T. Feigenbaum, Kravitz expertly ramps up tension through the first two acts. But as per usual, first-time directors rarely nail the third act and Kravitz is no different.
For a film clocking in one hour and 45 minutes, it feels drawn out and overstays its welcome. At one point, I checked the time stamp because I felt it was almost over and it still had 30 minutes left!!!
Pacing issues aside, the story is not new, but being told in a different setting gives it new life. And the message is clear and one that I back with all my being. Great performances stand out which is a huge shout for Kravitz and their ability to bring the best out of actors which isn't easy.
Overall, an extremely competent first film that only sparks the fire of interest in what Zoe Kravitz will do in the future.
It took a minute to get there, and I feel like the explicitness needed a more brutal violence to balance that out, and the finale was a little...I dunno...baffling? out of character, as she didn't seem to be a sociopath? and the maid was not cool with things, but sorta was? (not to judge disadvantaged people) It was a little all over the place. Not bad by any means, but sometimes writer-director situations work out, this one almost did.