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<\/a><\/div>\nBlink Twice<\/i> is a flawed but safe calling card for actor-turned director Zoe Kravitz, owing much to films that have come before and tread well-versed territory. It\u2019s a film that sees two waiters at an elite corporation swept under the spell of \u201ccancelled\u201d celebrity Slater-King \u2013 Kravitz deploying modern pop culture cancellation expertly with Channing Tatum revelling in embracing the often fake, manufactured apologies that come out only when a celebrity is caught doing something wrong rather when they actually did something wrong, as one of Hollywood\u2019s heartthrobs himself, he shines here. When the two girls find themselves on Slater King\u2019s island that promises the art of healing through forgetting, it soon becomes apparent that not all is as it seems and they may have wondered into a trap that they cannot escape from.\n<\/p>\n
Calling to mind Olivia Wilde\u2019s Don\u2019t Worry Darling<\/i> and other recent, more critically acclaimed films, like Jordan Peele\u2019s Get Out, Blink Twice<\/i> is more a \u201chere, look how good I am as a director\u201d than a good film in its own right as it shows how well Kravitz can master the cliches and the Hitchcockian level of suspense raising that gets under your skin from the word go. It\u2019s a #MeToo thriller that lures you in, seductively and intrugingly, but feels like it ends just as it gets started \u2013 with the ending creating a sense of power induced by the 1% above us all. Naomi Ackie and Ali Shawkat are caught in its web, party girls who enjoy the endless hedonism at first but when things go wrong, Shawkat\u2019s Jess goes missing and only Ackie\u2019s Frida can remember her \u2013 all her new friends have completely forgotten her at all. Only what remains is the knife left behind her bathroom mirror that Frida remembers Jess telling her to hide somewhere, and the knowledge that Jess was bitten by a venomous snake. There\u2019s something similar at work here that Blink Twice<\/i> deploys expertly.\n<\/p>\n