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Movie review - Knock Knock

4/10/2016

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Knock Knock is a 2015 Chilean-American co-production, starring Keanu Reeves, Ana de Armas e Lorenza Izzo, directed by horror pioneer Eli Roth. Although categorized as a thriller film, defining this movie becomes quite hard, specially taking into consideration the fact that it begins very well, and ends up being more like a deadly college prank, than a serious piece, after all.  

The movie tells the story of a night in the life of Evan Webber (Reeves), a husband, father of two, and accomplished architect, that, staying alone for the weekend, suddenly has, at a certain rainy night, two girls knocking on his door, telling him that they got lost, while looking for the address of a party. Soaked by the rain, and virtually lost, Evan wants to help them both, and let the girls enter his house, but this will turn out as the biggest mistake of his life. 
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While appearing to be nice and friendly, the two girls, little by little, become more vicious, dangerous, abusive and sexually aggressive, and after seducing Evan, have a threesome. After that, things become really bad, in the worst way possible, as the pair of female assailants gets brutal, violent and increasingly irrational.

While the premise of the movie is really interesting, the movie becomes progressively tedious, tenaciously dull and inherently obvious, especially when it comes to the girls, as the movie progresses, that reveals themselves to be just two bored females, looking for fun at the cost of easily seducing middle aged and successful married men, just for the sake of playing a psychotic game. 

As the story unfolds, the movie becomes more and more pointless and seemingly random, especially when, towards the end, nothing unusual or really clever happens, and the plot follows just another conventional linear narrative arc, with a simpleton objective, with nothing more to offer, being a great disappointment, after all, creating expectations that not fulfill the audience, in any way. 

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The movie is bizarre, for the fact that, starting with a naïve, but very intriguing promising story, turns out being just another simple and mischievous common place. The mediocre, boring, conventional – and absolutely obvious – ending, with no twist, nor smart turn of events, leaves the viewer disappointed and sad, with that sensation of time lost, for nothing after all. In the end, it is just another story, in a very conventional movie. A simple product, just another delivery from the movie industry. 

Another severe problem in the movie is Keanu Reeves choice for the main role. He is not convincing as a husband and a father. Perhaps for the reason that we do not see him take this kind of role frequently (never, so to speak), and perhaps for the fact that he has not taken – ever – neither roles in real life. For these reasons, it is quite hard to see him in this kind of role, and his acting simply doesn’t buy credibility – “chocolate with sprinkles” – nor it is convincing enough, to help us believe his character. It turns out to be comic – and voraciously funny – at certain parts.

Eli Roth is a great director, that is for sure. While this movie will not damage his reputation, will bring nothing to it, either, absolutely. Unfortunately, Knock Knock turns out to be a great sum of talents, wasted in a worthless filmmaking effort. Knock Knock, in a best case scenario, deserves one and a half star for its score, at the most possible optimistic evaluation.        

​Wagner           

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