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Watch: Don’t Blink 2014 123movies, Full Movie Online – Ten people arrive at a secluded mountain resort to find it completely deserted. With no gas for the return trip, they are forced to stay and investigate the mystery surrounding the abandoned lodge. Starring Brian Austin Green, and Mena Suvari..
Plot: Ten people arrive at a secluded mountain resort to find it completely deserted. With no gas for the return trip, the visitors are forced to stay and investigate the mystery surrounding the abandoned lodge.
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	4.8/10 Votes: 6,505
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Reviews:

***It’s about death***

Ten young people converge on a mountain lodge in the Rockies in the off season, but find it mysteriously abandoned. None of them can figure out what happened to the people and they don’t have enough gas to leave, so they’re stuck. The cast is headed by Brian Austin Green (Jack), Zack Ward (Alex), Mena Suvari (Tracy) and Joanne Kelly (Claire).

Parts of “Don’t Blink” (2014) bring to mind movies like “Night of the Living Dead” (1968), “The Mist” (2007), “Phantoms” (1998) and “Donner Pass” (2011) with an ending that recalls “Wind Chill” (2007). But it’s by far the least of these because, while the mysterious set-up is good for about the first 35-40 minutes, it becomes one-dimensional and predictable, e.g. when the young guy kneels down behind the bar.

Another flaw is that some of the dramatics feel forced and awkward, like the girl unconvincingly morphing into a preacher. Those other movies didn’t have this problem because they had superior writers/filmmakers.

There are 3-4 worthy women in the cast, including Suvari, Fiona Gubelmann (Ella) and Samantha Jacober (Charlotte), but the director/writer never really takes advantage of their presence, but he did good enough, I guess.

The film runs 1 hour, 32 minutes and was shot in Ruidoso, New Mexico, USA.

GRADE: C

***SPOILERS*** (Don’t read unless you’ve seen the movie):

It might help to see the movie as a microcosm of death in our lives: Everyone and everything around us will eventually die one-by-one, so quick & unexpected it’s like the blink of an eye. The catatonic girl (Charlotte) willfully calling her own disappearance symbolizes people who commit suicide. For everyone else, death comes in various unforeseen ways, often suddenly.

Tempers its intrigue with disappointment.

_Final rating:★★ – Had some things that appeal to me, but a poor finished product._

Not the worst thing I’ve watched of Late.
All things considered this isn’t a bad film, the acting is good, sets and locations are stunning, cinematography is brilliant and the script has some legitimately hilarious lines in it that will have you (if you’re like me) barking out a laugh. The pace is steady, and it’s not too complicated or cluttered with superfluous bits and pieces thrown in to bulk it up. I also like the way (however predictable some may be) that they had people disappearing. It was clever, good camera and effects work, subtle and understated but still impressive.

Now to the negative… Despite the build of tension and the myriad of questions the films raises, don’t hold out much hope for any answers. You won’t get any. Maybe this was a deliberate effort because they’re intending a sequel (I would be more than happy to watch that, and I don’t often vote for sequels) or maybe this is a Nolan-esque leaving it to your imagination ending. Whatever the answer, it’s a rather frustrating to come away empty handed. If this is left open ended in this way for a sequel don’t fret, it’s not one of those obvious “And we are clearly setting this up for the sequel TAKE THAT SUCKERS!” type deals. Much more subtle than that.

All in all I have to say it was a pretty good film that held my attention in a way a lot of films of late fail to do, and I’d recommend watching it if you’re bored or the idea the films posits interests you. But don’t get as mad as some reviewers on here if it’s not a 10/10 masterpiece of cinema gold. It is what it is, don’t expect the most breathtaking piece of cinema known to man that answers all of the questions you have about life, death and why we’re here.

An Amateurish B-Movie Lacking Focus & Closure
In writing some recent reviews of horror/suspense films, I feel like it’s deja vu all over again. As I’ve said before, I can deal with clichéd beginnings and loose connections, as long as the film goes somewhere interesting and leaves me either satisfied or intrigued at the finish. “Don’t Blink” failed even my lenient criteria. I am going to preemptively try to counter some of the usual arguments – I like movies that are more psychological in nature, I don’t expect/desire a lot of gore. This was simply a bad film.

I expected the film to be at least somewhat predictable, given the hackneyed premise of “friends going to a remote location where bad things happen.” Following the tired opening act, I was interested when people began to disappear. However, my interest was contingent upon there (eventually) being some kind of resolution or understanding, with escalating elements along the way. None of this occurred. People kept disappearing, and the only thing the characters were able to glean was that it was perhaps attributable to them “blinking” or somehow taking their eyes off each other. Nothing else happened. The plot was linear at best, and it could even be argued that it consisted of a point rather than a line. Even the “blinking” concept was inconsistently applied – some of the characters disappeared as soon as no one was looking, but some did not. It was unclear as to whether two people had to be looking at each other at once, or if one would suffice. Charlotte (the head case) should have disappeared ten times over given her catatonic state and the fact that the other characters were preoccupied, but she lasted almost until the end.

The character development was nonexistent and relied upon stereotypes – crass guy, tough guy, slutty girl, brainy girl, hot girl, etc. I didn’t get a good sense of the relationships between the characters (how did they all know each other?), and I didn’t accept that they were a preexisting group. The characters were so shallow and the back-story so inadequate that I wouldn’t have been able to keep track of their names without the close-captioning! I think the film could have worked much better had it been a group of strangers, or at least several independent groups within the larger group (it wouldn’t have been any worse). Unlike some other raters, I thought the acting and dialogue were terrible. No one (with the possible exception of brainy girl) was believable.

The lame attempts to keep the viewers interested (read: violence, sex) were contrived and ridiculous. I accepted the redheaded guy as a loose cannon, but the blonde guy suddenly going crazy and shooting at his friends was a huge leap. I guess the writers ran out of ideas of how people might disappear and had to get somebody to leave the lodge. If, as we later discover, that Brian Austin Green’s character was going to propose to his pregnant girlfriend, would he really have taken the first opportunity to get laid with his ex? They didn’t waste any time there, considering each of their significant others had only been missing for a matter of hours. The sex scene was superfluous/meaningless. The return of Noah was also far-fetched. His excuse of having fallen into a ditch and blacked out was uninspired and implausible. What ditch? If an injury was so severe that he was unconscious for 6+ hours, he wouldn’t have been able to find his way back to the lodge (in the dark) unscathed. And the notion that he had come back from wherever the disappeared went was quickly squashed. This incident was therefore pointless.

Had it been fully developed, the temperature subplot could have been intriguing. It played out like the writers had no idea where they wanted to go – first, we are told it’s the end of the season, which is why the weather isn’t as cold as it might be. Then, we discover that the lake is frozen, as if it’s the middle of winter. Back at the lodge, we learn that the temperature is dropping severely, and that it had been unseasonably warm earlier (way to insert a contradictory fact). None of these instances tied together, and the weather concept never went anywhere.

In addition, the clues to the missing people didn’t coalesce. On the one hand, the remains of breakfast and the unused bath water lead us to believe that whatever happened had transpired very abruptly. On the other hand, the noose in one of the cabins and the messages left inside the lodge kitchen cabinet and on a cabin mirror suggest that the unknown events occurred over time. None of the characters even saw the messages – so what was the point of them?

The biggest problem I had with the film was the lack of resolution. I generally like films that inspire viewers to think and encourage them to make their own interpretations. An ambiguous ending can be pleasing. However, in order for this tactic to be successful, sufficient elements must be provided throughout the journey. I’ve read a few of the other reviews where users praise the film for its purported “existential elements and philosophical undertones.” I think they are giving the filmmakers far too much credit! I like intelligent, multi-layered films requiring independent thought, but I can also recognize the opposite – when viewers are left abandoned because the filmmakers were lazy or ran out of ideas. I refuse to rationalize this film’s lack of an ending into something positive. If the film really was intended to be “meta,” the approach was all wrong. Not all viewers are sheep. You can’t expect us to overlook/excuse a badly-made film due to some possible deeper meaning.

I think if executed differently (better direction, writing, acting), this idea really could have worked. Oh, well.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 32 min (92 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Director Travis Oates
Writer Travis Oates
Actors Mena Suvari, Joanne Kelly, Fiona Gubelmann
Country United States
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Aspect Ratio 2.39:1
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