Blink Twice
Blink Twice
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.
匚卂尺ㄥ reviewedFebruary 11, 2025
If Quentin Tarentino were a feminist who decided to direct a thriller that substituted techies for wise guys and killers, Zoe Kravitz's Blink Twice would be the result. Kravtiz's amazing directorial debut is one big Mind F$#@ in the truest sense- a psychological thriller about the excesses of wealth, violence, and seduction without consequences until the end when the tables turn.
Visually lush with a fast pace and great editing that really highlights the descent into all out madness, Blink Twice is Ex Machina and Carrie meets Get Out and The Menu, with a little Dusk to Dawn thrown in. The monsters come out after dark in a tropical, indigenous community of gorgeous scenery, delectable food, and terrible, moonlit secrets. And villain Slater King, skillfully played by Channing Tatum, is the most charming and dangerous of the bunch.
The movie's trigger warning is well deserved. But Zoe Kravitz skillfully weaves an unexpected storyline about power, sex and misogyny with art, amazing music, fashion, Greek tragedy, and nature, especially pivotal chase scenes through the forest, to create a surreal, edge of your seat movie that surprises and shocks. It's part modern day thriller/revenge film and vampire movie, except the vampires in a metaphoric sense are techies who cavort during the day, love food, and aren't centuries old.
They are still predators though unafraid to sacrifice bodies for their violent desires or to hypnotize victims into a forgetful stupor that renders their victims helpless until a local medicine woman and enchantress helps to shift the tables. And that's when the movie punches the gas and accelerates into high gear and all-out Quentin Tarantinoesque mayhem, ending with a gut punch moment of cold revenge and redemption.
You gotta see it. This movie delivers from the acting, set design and pace. And the incredible soundtrack will keep you grooving the whole time.