So how does a bad movie get greenlighted for production? Considering the money involved, the number of people, and the great risk of losing money, anyone would think that there are checks and balances to avoid a highly probable financial disaster. In the case of the new and bad "Blink Twice", this film was made most likely because of the clout of the director and co-writer Zoe Kravitz, who has been in the movie industry for well over 10 years, and her finance Channing Tatum, who is the lead character in this film. When you have contacts and clout, you can get funding, and call in favors to get other famous actors in your movie, even if the entire concept is as horrendous as this one is.
The logline for this film reads like a legal excerpt from the Cosby rape and sexual abuse trial from a few years ago. "A billionaire who owns an island tricks several women into joining him and a group of his friends for a weekend retreat where the women are drugged, sexually assaulted, and then given other drugs so they forget what happened". How an idea this bad, years in the making, could ever have been made into a movie is at a minimum outrageous, especially considering news stories concerning Bill Cosby, Jeffrey Epstein, R. Kelly, and most recently, P. Diddy.
This film stars Channing Tatum as Slater, the billionaire, most likely inspired by the late Jeffrey Epstein who tricks women into traveling to his island. Haley Joel Osment, plays Tom, one of the friends of Slater on the island. Naomi Ackie plays Frida, one of the many female victims, and Adria Arjona as Sarah - another victim. Christian Slater has a small part in this movie, as one of the friends of Slater who live on the island, and Geena Davis as Stacy, another victim of sexual assault in a rare appearance in a movie in recent years - as I wondered why she would pick this train wreck to make any attempt at a movie comeback. This entire movie is violent and in many areas disgusting, with most of the characters wandering around drunk either from alcohol or drugs. Why Zoe Kravitz would choose this terrible idea to write and then direct her first movie makes no sense.
Most amazing about this film is that the Rotten Tomatoes rating is a way too high 79%, that makes zero sense. This movie is 10% at best, only for some of the acting, and should be missed by everyone and never should have been made. A better title for this two hour mess should have been "Blink and close your eyes", so you never see a second of this very bad movie.
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