Don't Blink starts off looking like it's gonna be a rather strenuous watch, piling 10 young adults up for a trip to a secluded Rocky Mountain resort and testing the viewer for the first 20 minutes or so with the standard jibberish writing and character motivations. But slowly and surely the film builds on a couple of levels. Firstly, the writing and the overacting are silly enough to inspire laughter, and secondly, the mystery as to what's going on is actually very well done. In other words, the shit is enjoyable and the good is engaging. By the films third act, when all of the nonsense is out of the way, it actually becomes rather compelling.
Mena Suvari of American Beauty fame gets top billing alongside Brian Austin Green, but believe it or not, and I'm still having trouble wrapping my head around this, it's Green who carries the film. His performance is quite good and helps center things when Zack Wards overacting could have drug the whole thing down.
There's almost no gore, but the scares come more from the tension and the mind fuck of what's happening.
Yes it's full of tropes, and yes a few of the actors are not all that great, but the visuals are crisp, the film looks nice, and Green and Joanna Kelly are both really good. Throw in a legitimately tense mystery that expertly builds and Don't Blink is a rather fun scare fest that will have you on the edge of your seat and provide more than a few wtf moments.
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