There are great moments, and it remains tense throughout, but the major mis-casting and some missed opportunities to ratchet up the tension make this a rare misfire for a director who usually producing nerve-shredding tension. His 'free pizza' speech is absurd and does little to swing us to his cause, but at least it does allow him one of his only moments of animation in the movie. Worse - we are supposed to feel bad for him having to stay behind and work while they're away at the beach, but his home seems so luxurious, his 'job' so easy, and his wife so self-indulgently arty and entitled, that it's difficult to feel anything but surprise and a bit of naughty joy when the two nymphettes start trashing their place. Reeves' attempts at playing 'monster' and chasing his kids come off as just plain creepy, and his whole family seem stilted and weirdly unlikeable - there is no family chemistry or believability at all. Somebody like Ewan McGregor would have been far more appropriate. It's quite possible that the film would never have been made without a big star like Reeves to put his name above the title as a selling point, and it's a brave and challenging role for him to have tried, but unfortunately he falls flat on his face relentlessly for most of the film, coming off as a befuddled blank slate, or a shouty dazed surfer dude, when the role needed an actor who can portray a far greater emotional range in their face. Unfortunately, Reeves is the weakest link. Lorenza Izzo, despite having a couple of very brief 'stagey' moments, is brilliant, and Ana de Armas is mesmerizingly convincing as her partner in crime, who seems milder but may be even more unhinged. That's right - the man many accuse of 'torture porn' in his Hostel films is at it again, but on the emotional level this time, and you do feel for Reeves character as they begin to mess with his head and his home.
#ANA DE ARMAS KNOCK KNOCK MOVIE#
The rest of the story is essentially a home-invasion movie crossed with a will-they-won't-they suspense thriller, as we start to wonder just how unhinged the girls will become in their twisted games of emotional torture. Suffice it to say that the two girls are a couple of bunnies short of a Fatal Attraction, and make it their personal business to terrorise the befuddled architect. But soon the girls surprise him with their forthright, intimate conversations and suggestions, and begin to put temptation in the way of the dedicated family man.ĭespite the trailer giving a great deal of the plot away, I'll still try to avoid spoilers. Uncertainly, Reeves' architect lets them come in to dry off and call a cab, explaining that his wife and kids are at the beach for the weekend. Lorenza Izzo and Ana de Armas play the lost partiers who knock on Keanu Reeves' door, soaked by a storm and in need of help.
#ANA DE ARMAS KNOCK KNOCK FULL#
While the blood and gore are barely present, Knock Knock is chock full of Roth's usual twisted humour, sexually charged scenes, almost perversely hard to escape predicaments, and nuts characters. Off the back of her devious role in Knock Knock, de Armas has scored at least one other part – she’ll share the screen with Miles Teller and Jonah Hill in Arms And The Dudes, which lands here on April 8 next year.Arriving out of sequence (The Green Inferno was filmed first, but released late due to distribution issues), Knock Knock could be mistaken for Eli Roth, the gleeful master of gory thrillers, softening.
Eastwood will be one of the brothers, with Antonio Negret looking to start the cameras and the car wheels rolling in Marseilles from November until February. How de Armas’ character will fit in has yet to be announced, though we could see her plotting as the criminal king pin if the film decides to go an interesting way. But they end up running afoul of a much more dangerous criminal. The script, written by Wanted’s Michael Brandt and Derek Haas, focuses on two American brothers who decide to push their car-thief career into top gear by heading to France. Having menaced Keanu Reeves in the Eli Roth thriller that arrived in the UK a couple of months ago, de Armas will now be part of the long-gestating vehicular thriller. They’ve hired Knock Knock’s Ana de Armas for the part. Now that the film has locked down at least one of its male leads in Scott Eastwood, the team behind Overdrive have turned their attention to a crucial female role.
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