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. Something horrible is about to happen.

Blink Twice, Zoë Kravitz (2024)

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BLINK TWICE:

At tech bros’ island

Waitress has time of her life

Until she forgets

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'Blink Twice' Movie and Blu-ray Review

The following review was written by Ultimate Rabbit correspondent, Tony Farinella. “Blink Twice” is a film with ambition, style, and some big goals.  It does not always achieve those goals from a filmmaking perspective, but it’s an interesting directorial debut from actress Zoë Kravitz, who also co-wrote the screenplay with E.T. Feigenbaum. The film also opens with a trigger warning for…

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Blink Twice (15): Absolute power corrupts... absolutely in this "Me Too" thriller.

#onemannsmovies #filmreview of "Blink Twice". #BlinkTwice. Zoë Kravitz's directorial debut hits it out of the park. Chilling and suspenseful. 4/5.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Blink Twice” (2024). When I saw the trailer of Zoë Kravitz’s “Blink Twice” I was immediately reminded of Mark Mylod’s 2022 comedy/horror “The Menu“. In that film, Ralph Fiennes plays Chef Slowik: a rich and pretentious chef who invites rich twats to his exclusive island to enjoy fine dining with a twist. I wasn’t wrong about that. But there is also a good dose of…

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BLINK TWICE (15)

BLINK TWICE (15) Director: Zoë Kravitz Runtime 102 min Cast: Naomi Ackie, Channing Tatum, Christian Slater, Simon Rex, Adria Arjona, Kyle MacLachlan, Geena Davis, Alia Shawkat Synopsis: When tech billionaire Slater King (Channing Tatum) meets cocktail waitress Frida (Naomi Ackie) at his fundraising gala, sparks fly. He invites her to join him and his friends on a dream vacation on his private…

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Blink Twice will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on November 5 via MGM and Warner Bros. The 2024 psychological thriller is currently available on Digital.

Actress Zoë Kravitz makes her directorial debut from a script she co-wrote with E.T. Feigenbaum. Naomi Ackie, Channing Tatum, Christian Slater, Simon Rex, Adria Arjona, Haley Joel Osment, Kyle MacLachlan, Geena Davis, and Alia Shawkat star.

No special features are included.

When tech billionaire Slater King (Channing Tatum) meets cocktail waitress Frida (Naomi Ackie) at his fundraising gala, sparks fly. He invites her to join him and his friends on a dream vacation on his private island. It's paradise. Wild nights blend into sun soaked days and everyone's having a great time. No one wants this trip to end, but as strange things start to happen, Frida begins to question her reality. There is something wrong with this place. She'll have to uncover the truth if she wants to make it out of this party alive.

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Blink Twice (2024)

As a directorial debut, Blink Twice was a bold choice for Zoë Kravitz. The sense of unease you feel at the beginning doesn’t quite prepare you for how sinister the movie gets. While it doesn’t necessarily reveal anything new, it sears itself into your memory. The quality of the screenplay by Kravitz and E.T. Feigenbaum makes it clear the objective was to take real-life fears and repackage them in a “safe” box. At this, it certainly succeeds.

Cocktail waitress Frida (Naomi Ackie) and her best friend, Jess (Alia Shawkat), sneak into a party held by billionaire tech mogul Slater King (Channing Tatum). They catch King’s attention and are invited to his private island with other guests: photographer Vic (Christian Slater) and his date, Sarah (Adria Arjona), private chef Cody (Simon Rex), DJ Tom (Haley Joel Osment) and rising employee Lucas (Levon Hawke) along with Camilla (Liz Caribel), lawyer Heather (Trew Mullen) and King’s personal assistant, Stacy (Geena Davis). The days that follow are filled with sunshine, lavish accommodations, high-end meals, alcohol and hallucinogenic drugs. But how many days exactly? And why does Jess suddenly feel like there’s something very wrong about this paradise?

Blink Twice hints at something sinister on King’s island without much delay. All of the female guests are gifted these beautiful white dresses that feel a little cult-ish and a maid ominously calls Frida “Red Rabbit”. There’s a shed filled with identical gift bags that has to mean something – you have no idea what – and all of the staff are tasked with killing the island's snakes on sight – for the guests’s safety, maybe? As the days blend into each other, you start wondering if the vacationers are being fattened up for a pagan sacrifice. If they are, you’re not sure who's in on the conspiracy. King must know something – the movie starts off with him publicly admitting to some vague wrongdoings/bad behavior - but you have no firm ideas. All you have is an ominous feeling, which puts you on the same level as Frida and Jess. A part of you is desperate to know what the deal is – it’s the only way the heroines (and by association, you) will figure out who they can trust and how they can cobble together an escape.

The film works both before you find out what’s happening and after. It’s disturbing and intense, though there are a few elements that don’t quite add up or aren’t explained enough for you to fully understand. The island staff, for example. You’re not sure how to feel about them at the end of the day or where they fit within the big picture. There’s also a moment where we learn something about Slater King’s backstory and I’m not sure if we’re suddenly supposed to sympathize with him or not. It probably should’ve been omitted to keep things clear-cut. I hesitate to call Blink Twice a fantasy/an escape – it's much too horrific to be the kind of movie you’d just watch on a whim for fun – or a metaphor - it's more of an augmentation of real life - but it is, in a sense that the characters are put in this nightmarish situation that's related to, but also detached from reality and are allowed the opportunity to escape from it while you watch from a safe distance.

It turns out, Slater King and his buddies have lured these women to torment and rape them every night. It’s not that simple, however. The drugs the women consume erase all memories of the assaults so their captors can do whatever they want to them and get away with it. The next morning, the men pretend like they’re all best friends and the cycle repeats itself. We never find out how long everyone's been on the island. After some snake venom cures Frida from her amnesia, the movie turns into another kind of thriller. She has to feign ignorance to avoid arousing suspicion while her traumatic memories come flooding back. There’s something particularly unsettling about the brief flashbacks and the knowledge that this happens over and over.

At one point, Slater comments that Lucas must have a special place in Hell reserved for him for what he’s done. This, and the cross around his neck hint that he's Christian but he admits that he doesn't believe in forgiving, only in forgetting. That is ironic on several levels then, since one of the pillars of Christianity is forgiveness/absolution and the scene where we get the clearest look at the necklace is from Frida's memory of an assault. There’s something there to think about, particularly when we consider the ending and the reasoning for it.

I “enjoyed” Blink Twice because it succeeds at what it seeks to do and because of the skills on display. It’s nerve-wracking and contains the kind of images you wish you could shake away but just can’t. You’re intrigued by its mysteries and once its questions start getting answered, your attention doesn’t drop one bit. It’s not a fun movie and there are a few details that still have me scratching my head but as a directorial debut, it says a lot about Kravitz as a writer and filmmaker. I’m eager to see what she has in store for us next, whether it’s another horror story or some other genre. (March 21, 2025)

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Put Your Eyes on BLINK TWICE (2024) [Movie Review]

Blink Twice is a solid directorial debut from Zoe Kravitz, exuding a sense of confident storytelling with a fantastic cast and an uncompromising and often vicious story. Minor tonal and pacing issues don’t throw off what works. 

Blink Twice; 2024; written by Zoe Kravitz & E.T. Feigenbaum; directed by Zoe Kravitz; Starring Naomi Ackie, Channing Tatum; Alia Shawkat, Geena Davis, and Christian Slater; Rated R; 1h42m; Amazon; Theatrically released Aug 22nd. Blink Twice opens with a card informing the audience the film that will follow has themes of gaslighting, abuses of power, and other heavy issues. My wife and I looked…

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BLINK TWICE (2024)

Starring Naomi Ackie, Channing Tatum, Christian Slater, Simon Rex, Adria Arjona, Kyle MacLachlan, Haley Joel Osment, Geena Davis, Alia Shawkat, Levon Hawke, Liz Caribel, Trew Mullen, Cris Costa, María Elena Olivares, Saul Williams, Tiffany Persons,      Aaron Himelstein, Ben Jacobson, Caroline Forsythe, Garret Levitz, Regina Guerrero and Zoë Kravitz.

Screenplay by Zoë Kravitz and E.T. Feigenbaum.

Directed by Zoë Kravitz.

Distributed by Amazon MGM Studios. 102 minutes. Rated R.

Blink Twice takes its name from an old joke – or is it really a joke? – “Blink twice if you are in danger.” This statement suggests that someone is in a situation under duress, and they may not be able to actually say out loud that they are not safe. The joke part is that the person is usually not in danger, because in a really dangerous situation would someone really be able to say that to them?

But what if they were? And what if they didn’t realize they were in danger? What if they thought they were in a good situation until something turned dark on them?

This is the basic idea behind this thriller – the writing and directing debut of actor/singer Zoë Kravitz – daughter of singer Lenny Kravitz and actor Lisa Bonet. (Kravitz also has a small role in the film as a flight attendant.)

The concept seems simple, but of course becomes much more complex than originally expected. Two best friends Frida and Jess (Naomi Ackie and Alia Shawkat) are invited to the luxurious private island of a mysterious bad-boy billionaire Slater King (played by the director’s fiancé Channing Tatum.)

They end up on the island on a whim, with three other women guests and about five or six guys – all of which they barely or don’t know. They are slathered in creature comforts, fine cuisine, expensive alcohol and drugs. They are having a wild, amazing time, until they start to notice some odd lapses in memory and some strange bruises on their bodies which they cannot explain.

What is really happening to the women on the island is the mystery of Blink Twice, and as a filmmaker Kravitz shows a deft eye for smart characterizations and chilling contradictions. She obviously has a real talent for making slick potboilers for mass consumption.

If the eventual climax doesn’t exactly make sense – well it kind of makes sense in the film’s universe but raises some serious questions looking at it from the real world – Blink Twice is still a fun ride. If you can sort of turn off your mind (maybe like some of the characters – see what I did there?), there is a lot of fun to be had in watching the film.

Blink Twice is definitely a provocative film, one meant to inspire some serious debate about gender relations. (To give you an idea, Kravitz has said that the original title was going to be Pussy Island, but it was changed due to push back in polls.) One could argue that most of the guys turn out to be almost cartoonishly evil and flawed, and at least a few of the women are shallow misogynists, but that would be kind of missing the point. Blink Twice is not supposed to be taken literally, I believe, but more figuratively.

Or maybe I’m imparting too much psychological and sociological baggage on Blink Twice. Maybe it’s just a b-level thriller with a particularly challenging point of view. The fact that it mostly works in both ways is an impressive trick.

It will be interesting to see what Zoë Kravitz does next.

Jay S. Jacobs

Copyright ©2024 PopEntertainment.com. All rights reserved. Posted: August 23, 2024.

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#ProyeccionDeVida

🎬 “PARPADEA DOS VECES (Si estoy en Peligro)” [Blink Twice]

🔎 Género: Intriga / Thriller Psicológico

⌛️ Duración: 102 minutos

✍️ Guión: E.T. Feigenbaum y Zöe Kravitz

📷 Fotografía: Adam Newport-Berra

🎼 Música: Chanda Dancy y Gabriel Garzón-Montano

🗯 Argumento: Cuando el magnate de la tecnología Slater King conoce a la camarera Frida en su gala de recaudación de fondos, saltan chispas. Él la invita a acompañarle a él y a sus amigos a unas vacaciones de ensueño en su isla privada. Un auténtico paraíso. Las noches salvajes se mezclan con mañanas bañadas por el sol y todo el mundo se lo pasa en grande. Nadie quiere que el viaje termine, pero cuando empiezan a suceder cosas extrañas, Frida intuye que algo anda mal en ese lugar. Tendrá que descubrir la verdad si quiere salir viva de la fiesta.

👥 Reparto: Channing Tatum (Slater King), Naomi Ackie (Frida), Adria Arjona (Sarah), Alia Shawkat (Jess), Haley Joel Osment (Tom), Levon Roan Thurman-Hawke (Lucas), Simon Rex (Cody), Christian Slater (Vic), Liz Caribel (Camilla), Geena Davis (Stacy) y Kyle MacLachlan (Rich)

📢 Dirección: Zöe Kravitz

© Productoras: Free Association, Bruce Cohen Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) & Redrum.

📼 Distribuidora: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

🌎 País: Estados Unidos

📅 Año: 2024

📌 ESTRENO:

📆 Jueves 22 de Agosto

📽 Cartelera Nacional: Cineplanet / Cinemark Perú / Cinépolis / Multicines Cinestar

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"Blink Twice" Trailer

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Blink Twice (2024) Movie Review

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BLINK TWICE Channing Tatum, Christian Slater on Pussy Island - 2nd trailer

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