Knock At The Cabin review

 

A married couple, a young child, 4 strangers knocking at a cabin warning of an impending doomsday unless they make an unthinkable sacrifice..what would you do?? that that is the question asked by Writer and Director M. Night Shyamalan in his latest movie. Knock At The Cabin doesn't take any time in getting going as we're introduced to the real highlight of this movie in Dave Bautista's Leonard. At face value he seems to be a deep and caring man but something just feels off about him from the moment he appears on screen until the time the credits begin to roll. It's a commanding performance from the former wrestler. Once the 4 infiltrators are inside of the young couple's cabin the tension is elevated to higher and higher heights as the choice forced upon both men ticks away, nawing away at them. 


At it's core Knock At The Cabin is a tense thriller with end of the world ideas, prophecies and meanings. With this impending destruction of the world placed upon the shoulder of this couple and their child it offers up so many questions of faith, love and sacrifice. M. Night Shyamalan has crafted a wonderful movie from beginning to end with great performances throughout from not just Bautista by everyone else from Johnathan Groff to Rupert Grint and more. It does however get bogged down by some flashback scenes that while offer a lot of background on the couple in question ever so slightly down the pace but not enough to take away from everything else. They never outstay their welcome more so they're here to push the plot further and make you care just that little bit more for these characters. 


Knock At The Cabin is best experienced with little knowledge of it beforehand as it is then when you will truly get everything you need from it. Unlike his movies of the past the narrative doesn't need a massive rug pull in the third act instead there is a really strong and quite touching ending which will leaving you thinking was it all really worth it?? was all of this truly necessary?? are humans bad?? Knock At The Cabin is great, it's really great. M. Night Shyamalan's best work in years and proves that he can still deliver great cinema. 

★★★★

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