Knock At The Cabin
Don’t answer the door!
Movie review by Spyder Darling
“Knock, knock.”
“Who’s there?”
“M. Night Shyamalan”
“Who?”
“Ya know, the guy that made that movie in 1999 about the kid who sees dead people.”
“Hmm…”
“It starred Bruce Willis and had an awesome twist at the end.”
“Oh yeah. What’s up?”
“Well, I’ve got a new one you might be interested in called Knock At The Cabin.”
“Oh really, what’s the twist this time.”
“That’s just it, there isn’t one.”
“No, shit. Then what’s the point?”
“Ya got me. But it’s really intense and it’s over in only 100 minutes. So you still might want to check it out.”
“Maybe, what’s it about?”
While vacationing at a remote cabin, a young girl and her two dads are taken hostage by four armed strangers who demand that the family make an unthinkable choice to avert an alleged worldwide apocalypse that would put a screaming, splashing, crashing end to humanity forever. With limited access to the outside world, the family must decide what they believe and what if anything they want to do before it’s too late for humanity and not just Sean Hannity.
Knock at the Cabin’s ensemble cast includes Dave Bautista (The Glass Onion, Dune, Guardians of the Galaxy), Tony award and Emmy nominee Jonathan Groff (Hamilton, Mindhunter), Ben Aldridge (Pennyworth, Fleabag), BAFTA nominee Nikki Amuka-Bird (Persuasion, Old), newcomer Kristen Cui, Abby Quinn (Little Women, Landline) and Rupert Grint (Servant, Harry Potter franchise), all of whom do a very good job at making the most of an extremely awkward to say the least situation.
Should you see it? Though Knock… is directed with drive, includes a few cool effects, including a twenty foot tsunami and is very well acted, I wasn’t crazy about it. Granted, by today’s blockbuster standards it is over quickly. But, it’s a pretty unpleasant and humor free hour and forty minutes, with a few loose ends that don’t tie together too neatly at the conclusion. Lastly, you may never think of KC and The Sunshine band in the same carefree way again.
So check out the trailer and decide for yourself. As for M. Night. I wish him well and look forward to his next cinematic creep fest. But when it comes to his movies, I like them like my martinis. With a twist.
Thanks a trillion for reading. Please check out my Movie Reviews list including M3GAN, Babylon, Causeway and a film festival’s worth of other big screen hits and misses too.
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