If you're in the mood for a trashy, guilty pleasure (and you're careful not to set your expectations too high!) "Knock Knock" may have just enough mild erotica (plus a whole bunch of crazy!) to pass as acceptable entertainment time-filler! Keanu Reeves starts out the film in typical low-key "Keanu mode", only to ratchet things up to a far more emotive sense of desperation as dictated by the plot! The two main ladies in the movie (Ana de Armas and Lorenza Izzo) start out as seemingly benign, giggly hotties somewhat in distress! Keanu's character's helpful chivalrousness toward the ladies results in---for him---unforeseen negative consequences! Ms. Izzo is pretty good at playing an unpredictable psychotic, while the gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous Ms. de Armas (more recently seen to far better effect in the hit film "Knives Out") registers as a deeply troubled childlike seductress! The main weakness of the film lies in the fact that viewers of thriller movies, while unlikely to correctly guess where the plot will lead, will probably predict far better dramatic developments than what the movie actually provides! Truthfully, I only bothered with this movie at all because Ana de Armas was in it, and---from a hormonal standpoint alone, she does not disappoint (not to knock Ms. de Armas, who, when given strong material like Knives Out, proves herself to be an exceptionally capable performer!) Knock Knock, by contrast, doesn't require exceptionalism! The beauty of both actresses is something to behold, and it almost makes believable the mild, internal moral struggle of Reeves' character, but, honestly, no one is being tasked here with anything more demanding than trying to bring an essentially preposterous story to entertaining life! Even if the script isn't especially clever, the performers' full-on commitment to the crazy somewhat elevated the production overall!
Review of Knock Knock
