Evaluation: Blink Twice (2024) – flickchart: the weblog
Reviewer Flickchart Rating: 1,351 (76%)
Blink Twice introduces us to struggling 20-something servers Frida (Naomi Ackie) and Jess (Alia Shawkat). Their catering service has booked tech billionaire Slate King (Channing Tatum)’s annual gala. Capable of slip previous the air-tight safety by altering garments, Frida finds herself as King’s dinner companion and shortly the 2 buddies are whisked away with the billionaire’s entourage to a personal island.
On the island, we’re launched to a forged that recollects Billy Wilder’s set of “waxworks” from Sundown Blvd (1950) Christian Slater as Tatums’ right-hand man, Haley Joel Osment because the group’s resident punching bag, and Geena Davis as his tireless assistant (in addition to Simon Rex as a pretentious hunk) who’re joined by a forged of lovely girls, most notably Adria Arjona (Hit Man, 2023).
Unsurprisingly, Blink Twice focuses on themes of energy, class, and gender. Frida has goals if not a close to obsession of breaking free from her social class and away from the wage drudgery of her life. The thriller Frida finds herself in requires her to actually untangle the spell positioned on her by highly effective, wealthy, white males. The directional debut of Zoë Kravitz crafts a broad metaphor for the real-world lives of girls all over the place whereas sustaining a taut, entertaining thriller that’s charming, humorous, and horrifying.
Naomi Ackie performs admirably, whereas Shawkats reinforces she is underutilized in Hollywood, however it’s Channing Tatum and Adria Arjona who steal each scene. Tatum stretches his normal quasi-stoic everyman by way of Greek god into one thing extra alluring and devious than he has beforehand revealed. Whereas Arjona’s efficiency overflows with sexiness and intelligence. Arjona by no means permits the viewers to know all that she does till the movie divulges its secrets and techniques.
Blink Twice isn’t an ideal movie, it runs over the identical floor for too lengthy, struggles for concepts in its closing act, and tacks on an epilogue which will undercut the message of the movie for some. However, Blink Twice is an interesting, enjoyable thriller that manages to maintain its viewers off-balanced sufficient to carry an thrilling pressure and even throw in a shock or two.
