- Starring
- James McAvoy, Mackeenzie Davis, Scoot McNairy
- Director
- James Watkins
- Rating
- R
- Genre
- Drama, Horror, Thriller
- Release date
- Sept 13, 2024
Overall Score
Rating Overview
Story/Plot/Script
Visuals/Cinematography
Performance
Direction
Non-Wokeness
Rating Summary
With a lean and well written if otherwise predictable and sometimes redundant script, Speak No Evil is elevated to this year's best thriller almost entirely by sitting atop James McAvoy's Henry Cavill-like shoulders.
In the 2024 horror thriller Speak No Evil, James McAvoy stars as Paddy, a seemingly charming host who invites an American family to his remote countryside estate. What starts as a pleasant weekend getaway quickly turns into a psychological nightmare.
Speak No Evil WOKE REPORT
This was hard to score.
- Farm-to-table nature lovers vs EV-driving city-living vegetarians. If both primary couples are annoyingly woke, is the movie woke? Is it woke because the protagonist male is a beta?
- What is definitely woke is that the beta male is never given the opportunity to be heroic. Rather, he is, but he screws it up, or his environment stops him, and his wife swoops in to save the day… every time. Further, she is the only one whose antenna goes up at the odd goings-on, or who has the wherewithal to think on her feet and develop a plan. However, what’s most irritating is that the couple is trying to work past her almost infidelity, but she continually steers the blame back onto the husband.
James Carrick
James Carrick is a passionate film enthusiast with a degree in theater and philosophy. James approaches dramatic criticism from a philosophic foundation grounded in aesthetics and ethics, offering insight and analysis that reveals layers of cinematic narrative with a touch of irreverence and a dash of snark.
The original movie one had themes of over politeness which probably comes off with being wimpy or woke but I think that’s the point and he even says that in the end. This new version changed the ending because it was too gruesome I guess
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