Blink Twice Review: A Puzzling Failure By This summer belongs to Channing Tatum. He starred in the excellent rom-com Fly Me to the Moon and had a scene-stealing role in another summer blockbuster. This time, he’s under the direction of his fiancée, Zoë Kravitz, in her directorial debut.
is a new thriller movie originally titled Pussy Island. Naturally, the MPA didn’t want to release a film with this title, and many didn’t want to see a movie with this title. Unfortunately, having seen the film, the title should have been the least of their worries as far as getting people to want to watch it.
Blink Twice is a puzzling movie with many thought-provoking ideas and themes diluted in a script that doesn’t do any of them justice. This film is particularly frustrating because it’s clear about what it wants to say, and then the execution undercuts itself. Our protagonist, Frida (Naomi Ackie), is at a cocktail event that billionaire Slater King (Tatum) will attend.
Slater invites Frida and her friend Jess (Alia Shawkat) get invited to his private island for a vacation of partying, drugs, and fun. But the fun doesn’t last forever because as she witnesses strange things, she discovers not all is as it seems. This film should have been so much better than it is, but it feels like an inferior version of other movies.
Blink Twice has some stylish camerawork and shot choices from Kravitz, who shows some promise as a director. However, the screenplay co-written by her and E.T.