The directorial debut of the actor Zoë Kravitz, Blink Twice is a slickly environment friendly thriller that turns gender politics right into a full-blooded, bone-crunching, skin-flaying fight zone. It’s wildly entertaining – a sharp-witted style film that mixes the clued-in messaging of Jordan Peele’s Get Out with a contact of the skin-prickling unease of Alex Garland’s Males.
British actor Naomi Ackie is terrific as klutzy cocktail waitress Frida who, in a catastrophic meet-cute, falls on the toes of tech-billionaire Slater King (Channing Tatum). He invitations her and her greatest buddy, Jess (Alia Shawkat), to his island retreat. However Frida’s Cinderella story is just not what it appears, and there’s one thing amiss on this tropical paradise.
The actor-to-director path is fraught with pitfalls, however I’m blissful to report that Kravitz could be very a lot the true deal. The image is visually wealthy – look out for the alarm flashes of poisonous yellow she introduces into the color palette – and the usage of sound gave me chills. And if features of the screenplay won’t maintain as much as neuro-physiological scrutiny, the fantastic savagery of the ultimate act makes up for it.
