Rent Blink Twice (2024)

Boring drivel - Blink Twice review by Alphaville

From the ridiculous woke trigger warning at the beginning (which should be for offences to film rather than for violence), this is a travesty of an effort that has nothing going for it at all. It comes across as a cheap TV drama in which little happens and the screen is filled with big close-ups of talking heads spouting nothing of interest in interior sets. Watching paint dry would be more enjoyable.

Bad - Blink Twice review by cr

I agree with the second reviewer.

Curiously over praised yet lacking any kind of originality or interest it plods along with the same scenes time and time again until a pointless, unlikely and unsatisfying ending.

Avoid.

Mediocre Manblaming MetooBoohoo Boring Babywoman VictimPosing Feminist Fantasy - Blink Twice review by PV

Watch MIDSOMMAR for a great film about a weird isolated community. Or maybe BRIGADOON. Not this dross.

It seems someone has decided to write a feminist pity party fantasy, a la Handmaid's Tale, in which all males are portrayed as nasty evil monsters and all women as innocent wickle girls (which is actually deep misogyny, infantilising adult women).

It seems the writers tried to rip off rumours Jeffrey Epstein in this.

The movie thinks it is SO clever and radical but it is neither. It does not have the style of the albeit flawed GET OUT. In a word, it's BORING.

And the ending. Why, this is metooboo feminist emoporn I think, complete with a manhating starter kit.

For anyone disagreeing with my take on this, JUST REVERSE the genders - and then ask yourself if you'd consider that sexist.

This is a silly girl fantasy, which I'd classify as porn really. And the TRIGGER WARNING before it thanks to AMAZON MGM studios made me realise the horror to come.

No stars

Rape Revenge thriller masquerades as meaningful statement. - Blink Twice review by LW

This a pretty straightforward thriller that ticks the boxes for the rape revenge thriller and the 'rich people hunt others for sport' genres. Despite an infantilising 'trigger warning' at the start there is little shocking on display. The gimmick is that the victims are being drugged to forget their abuse on the seemingly idyllic private island of a sinister tech billionaire. An implausible remembering scenario triggers a round of mundane retributive violence and there's a smug twist at the end. The build up of menace is nice but this is too heavy handed to be insightful social commentary, too predictable and sure of itself to be thrilling, not darkly funny enough to be a satire and nowhere near brutal enough for the schlock fan. It is efficient, slick and forgettable.