Blink Twice (2024)
Genre: Thriller
Duration: 102 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Zoë Kravitz
Stars: Naomi Ackie, Channing Tatum and Christian Slater
IMDb score:
6,5 (127.365)
Releasedate: 21 August 2024
Blink Twice plot
"Are you having a good time?"
Tech billionaire Slater King meets cocktail waitress Frida at his charity gala and sparks fly. He invites her for a dream vacation with him and his friends on his private island. It's a paradise. Wild nights turn into sun-drenched days and everyone has a good time. No one wants this journey to end. But when strange things start happening, Frida begins to doubt her reality. There's something wrong with this place. She'll have to find out the truth if she wants to leave this party alive.
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De filosoof
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- 2489 messages
- 1700 votes
The film is not very original. The premise of the film – a woman is invited by a billionaire to spend a holiday on his island but things turn out to be wrong on the island and it turns out that she is not the only one who has fallen into the trap but that most of the guests have unsuspectingly walked into a prison from which they cannot escape – has been milked dry in many films (a recent film with a similar plot is The Menu). The first half of the film is also long-winded because it keeps dropping hints that the man and the island are extremely dangerous, with the two friends also constantly telling each other that it doesn't feel right and that something terrible is going to happen. When the plot develops from the middle of the film, the events are not very credible and a feminist twist is given to the well-known story, because it turns out that the women are sexually abused, which almost explicitly reminds us of Epstein's island, but the women - even though they are completely drunk and stoned - miraculously manage to defeat the men and turn things around.
The themes of toxic masculinity (men are assholes), women's defenselessness against it because women are naive (because of their insecurity they are susceptible to flattery and too trusting) and competing against each other instead of standing in solidarity with each other to protect themselves against men as well as trauma processing (you want to forget it but you only get control over your life back by remembering it and being able to deal with it) are interesting and well-worked into the story. Above all, the film succeeds in being gripping or intense so that it still manages to captivate despite the somewhat bland story.
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Film Pegasus (moderator films)
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- 31191 messages
- 5473 votes
The script started with a good idea, to then work towards it. Which turned out to be more difficult than expected. We follow Naomi Ackie's character who goes to a tropical island, where everything seems perfect and 1 big party. The title is also mentioned early in the film, but that seems a bit forced and also seems less relevant for a long time. The run-up is beautifully filmed, but quickly falls into boredom and takes far too long. But when it finally happens, it is immediately good. Although the film then seems to search for the best way to end. You are occasionally left hungry with Blink Twice and I have already forgotten half of the cast by the time I got home. But the plot works and the second half of the film makes up for a lot.
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mrklm
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- 11629 messages
- 10041 votes
Waitress Frida [Naomi Ackie] is excited to be back at work at a corporate event for Slater King [Channing Tatum], a charming and handsome billionaire who flirted with her a year earlier. He’s handed over the day-to-day running of his company to Vic [Christian Slater] and bought an island to hide away from the outside world. Slater has also done something for which he’s publicly apologized a thousand times. That stops Frida and co-worker and best friend Jess [Alia Shawkat] from joining him on a trip to Slater’s private island immediately after the event. They hand in their phones, party, drink and experiment with all sorts of drugs. For fifty minutes, nothing of interest happens, although Kravitz borrows from The Shining and Shutter Island to remind us what we already know. Then Frida finally has her Eureka moment, transforming this dull party movie into a hysterical melodrama. Tatum is ideally cast and veterans Kyle MacLachlan and Geena Davis are delightfully creepy, but Kravitz gives no reason to sympathize with the naive, hedonistic leads. The eventual explanation for Frida's dimwitted behavior only makes things more confusing. And for sheer incompetence, Stan [Cris Costa] gets zero stars on the "bodyguard advisor."
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