Blink Twice follows tech billionaire Slater King (played by Channing Tatum), who invites cocktail waitress Frida (Naomi Ackie) to his private island. As the “dream” vacation unfolds, strange and terrifying events occur, forcing Frida to question her perception of reality.

Blink Twice Review

After a reasonably well-crafted setup that economically delivers all the needed information to set the stage for what initially seems might be an entertaining thriller, audiences need to prepare themselves for an hour of repetitious nothing followed by one lukewarm reveal after another.

Writer-director Zoë Kravitz, daughter of musician Lenny Kravitz, has a keen sense of the elite aesthetic, which grants the film’s infinitely long and monotonously repetitive first act authenticity, if little else. Channing Tatum’s character’s island retreat – full of booze, drugs, and the offbeat-riche feels as though Jayden Smith and early 2000s Paris Hilton could be smoking weed in the solarium while Prince Harry snorts coke off a hooker’s rump. Unfortunately, that is where any sense of cohesive storytelling ends.

A successful thriller gives audiences fleshed-out characters about whom to care and despise, often flipping them to great delight. They offer well-thought-out and intricate plot points with hints and reveals organically discovered and artfully metered out in tantalizing doses to keep audience members on the edge of their seats waiting for the next one. Conversely, Blink Twice substitutes character development for scene after scene of people getting high at a perpetual party (I’m not being hyperbolic when I say it’s an hour of it). Furthermore, it manufactures not one but two of arguably the stupidest plot points in film history.

Ultimately, Blink Twice is a waste of film, time, and money. If you want to watch a fun little thriller that’s now available to stream, check out A Haunting in Venice.

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