Movie Details
Knock at the Cabin (2023)
Director:M. Night Shyamalan
Cast-Dave Bautista: Plays Leonard Brocht
Jonathan Groff: Plays Eric
Ben Aldridge: Plays Andrew
Nikki Amuka-Bird: Plays Sabrina
Rupert Grint: Plays Redmond
Abby Quinn: Plays Adriane
Kristen Cui: Plays Wen
M. Night Shyamalan: Plays an infomercial host
McKenna Kerrigan: Also in the castDave Bautista: Plays Leonard Brocht
Jonathan Groff: Plays Eric
Ben Aldridge: Plays Andrew
Nikki Amuka-Bird: Plays Sabrina
Rupert Grint: Plays Redmond
Abby Quinn: Plays Adriane
Kristen Cui: Plays Wen
M. Night Shyamalan: Plays an infomercial host
McKenna Kerrigan: Also in the cast
Movie type- Horror/Mystery
Release date- 3 February 2023
IMDB Rating-6.1
Languages- English, Spanish, and other languages.
Duration-1 Hour 40 Minutes
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Synopsis
M. Night Shyamalan made The Sixth Sense and The Chosen One, so he can send three-hour dramas about him cleaning the garage or mowing the lawn until he dies and be content. And I might be too. It’s been a really long time since he made a really good movie. Since Znameni, which was created twenty-one years ago, things have only gone downhill. Sometimes there was a hint of mediocrity, but the Village was more interesting than really good, and Torn was more driven by the main character and his representative. Shyamalan himself is now simply one of the filmmakers living off his former glory. And it probably won’t get any better, because even his novelty is no miracle. I’ll admit right away that I liked Someone’s Knocking at the Door more than Glass or Time, but that’s like enjoying a fever just because I didn’t break my ankle.
Husband and wife Eric and Andrew and their adopted daughter Wen decide to spend some time away from civilization in a house by the lake, but their well-being is disturbed by a quartet of weirdos armed with terrifying weapons. They are polite, friendly and scary. And when they capture the heroes, they lash out at them with a menacing plea. One of the trio must voluntarily decide to die and the other two must kill him. Otherwise the world will end. The absurd situation becomes even more absurd when it turns out that the four uninvited guests can persuade in a rather harsh way, and when reports begin to appear on television that indicate that there might actually be something to the talk of the apocalypse…
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Well, that’s about all that is interesting about Knock at the Cabin. The central idea of locking seven people in a small house, turning four of them into first-class magicians and starting a dialogue shootout, during which the fate of humanity, the lives of all involved, or at least common sense is at stake, is certainly not bad. But Shyamalan can’t get practically anything out of him. The four attackers behave irrationally and strangely enough to make both the audience and the captives wonder if they are mages, members of a sect, or someone else entirely. But at the same time, they try to profile themselves as “good people”, which leads to the fact that in the end they are not very scary. Someone from the morning, let’s say Misery doesn’t want to die, isn’t here. The four look more like friends who go to church together on Sundays and their efforts to pretend how terribly sorry the foursome are about the whole situation, in which they sometimes have to drive a pickaxe into someone,
Shyamalan doesn’t seem to be trying to portray the four attackers as evil or dangerous, the four are more pitiful. But thanks to this, it seems less and less believable as the footage progresses, especially when the heroes “see through” their actions and predictions of the approaching apocalypse. But what could lead to some tension and a more intense atmosphere in another (better) film, Shyamalan just drops from the table and decides to play most of the time in the style of “nobody knows anything, nobody is sure of anything, maybe this is happening, maybe that, so don’t think too much about it and watch.” The problem is that at the same time it forces the heroes and the audience to think and they tried to deal with the whole situation somehow. But as a director, he offers no real clues, no clues, and no point at the end, so once the trio of hostages wants them to deal with something other than their own survival, it all falls apart into one giant nonsense. Things happen here one way or another not because it has an internal logic, but because the director wants it to.
In its bewilderment as to how Shyamalan could develop an interesting idea into an interesting film, Knock at the Cabin is reminiscent of his terrible It Happened. In addition, Shyamalan is not shy about robbing himself here and in several scenes he uses the same directing techniques as in The Sign (events from the rest of the world can be seen on TV), but gradually the whole thing turns into a boring empty dialog without a point and without emotion.
Play the trailer-The rather atmospheric music, camera work and retro opening credits beckoning for a seventies-style horror spectacle (which we won’t get) deserve praise. And to some extent Dave Bautista, on the other hand, in his case, it would not be entirely fair to pat him on the back, because we know since Blade Runner 2049 that the position of silent and calm giants unexpectedly suits him. Well, not much. On the other hand, despite all the emptiness, boredom and lack of points, it goes by unexpectedly quickly. But maybe because I watched the end credits too actively.
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