Knock Knock (I) (2015) User Reviews

This movie will make you ANGRY

[mary-179-677383 · 4/10 · 1 October 2016]

I actually liked the movie, but at the same time I really hated it.

First off - Anyone that says Keanu Reeves can not act, is just being rude. He can act, he shows emotion. I could feel his pain through the screen and the torture he was going through. I could feel what he was going through and hence made me hate the film.

Second, the movie shows he has a injured shoulder so would be weaker around the girls.

As another poster said, I really want a revenge sequel. I am just not satisfied with this ending. The movie would have been a lot better if after he is left to be found. He gets all John Wick on the intruders and gives the little cows what they deserve.

What really bugged me about the movie though, is #spoiler alert# if they weren't planning on killing Keanu Reeves, why did they purposefully kill the friend. Although it's meant to come across as "not their fault, he fell", they knew he had asthma, took his pump, made him need it, and jump for it. He probably fell because he couldn't breath. That really bugged me.

Also if Keanu Reeves was a bad "dad" and person as they suggest, why did they ruin all his WIFES art, I get why they would destroy his music but why all his WIFES and innocent children's things and write curse words over his children's pictures.

I hated this film, because it made me cringe. I really wanted the girls to be dealt with and I really hate that they just walked away. It made me give this movie a 4/10 because its so frustrating and unsatisfying. Maybe if Keanu Reeves character was actually a bad person, then yea this movie would work, BUT NO, he was a good person on the most part (sure he cheated, but he didn't go out of his way to cheat. You are sympathetic towards Keanu. He didn't deserve everything that happened). The girls were annoying, loud, crazy, psychopaths.. argh I hate them.

Moral of the story Movie script writers- don't make a movie with the good guy is kicked and stomped on and the bad guys just get away. No one wants to watch that film.

We Want Revenge!

[Zac_La_Porte · 5/10 · 3 June 2021]

Directed by Eli Roth, Knock Knock is nothing other than a horrible home invasion story of torture and vandalism. It's enough to enrage all audiences and we demand a revenge sequel immediately! Keanu Reeves stars in the film as a hopeless victim of infuriating torture to leave you unsatisfied and angry at an extreme level. But what is good about the movie?

The fact that it's engaging enough to drag you out and supply you with horrible feelings is indeed fairly powerful, but Knock Knock would only be likeable if justice was included. Seriously, a sequel of justice and revenge is needed for the audiences without a single question. So unless you're feeling ready to spend 98 minutes watching an innocent man's life being ruined, simply avoid this one.

Although the power of this movie is appreciable, it's really unfair power. Knock Knock isn't at all a pleasurable movie, and due to the sympathy we'll have for the target of the torment, it's best left avoided for audiences entering the story already feeling angry.

If you liked this review, check out the full review and other reviews at aussieboyreviews.

How Does Eli Roth Still Have a Career?

[damianphelps · 1/10 · 7 October 2020]

I'm a Keanu Reeves fan and I like that he mixes up the types of movies he is involved with but this film is a disaster.

The girls are sexy and enticing (as their characters demand) but as good as Reeves is he can't convincingly do awkward.

And plausibility doesn't seem to be particularly important with this project.

Eli Roth...you just need to stop!

The film is predictable and disappointing.

Save your time.

What the f^%* did I just watch?

[and_shove_it_up_your_butt · 1/10 · 4 November 2020]

I can't believe Keanu made this movie and I doubly can't believe this script got the green light. I watched this for free and I want a refund.

Further Proof That Eli Roth is Terrible

[TheBarleyGuy · 1/10 · 18 December 2015]

Holy sh*t do I hate Eli Roth movies. Ever since Hostel and Cabin Fever I've found his films to border on the unwatchable, and yet I watched this one (and fully plan to watch Green Inferno), knowing that I wasn't likely to enjoy them. Maybe I'm a glutton for punishment, or maybe I just like spreading the Eli Roth is not very good gospel to anyone who will listen. So, what about this one?

It's not good, at all.

We start the movie having Keanu Reeve's being a "family man" shoved into our faces for an unbearably long time as we take a tour of his house, which is plastered with photos of the family, evidence of children and family is practically wallpaper in this house, and then we see Keanu and his wife have an attempt to have sex interrupted by this extremely loving children who have prepared a cake for father's day, and they all spend a solid 15 minutes of the movie talking about FATHER'S DAY, and LOVING DADDY, AND HOORAY FOR DAD ETC ETC, until you feel like you just might throw up. They also introduce us to the family dog (who somehow makes it to the end) and to a VERY IMPORTANT WORK OF ART THAT IS VERY IMPORTANT (which is smashed with hammers, obviously). So, with that extremely subtle set up, Keanu is left home alone when his family goes on a trip without him (for some reason), and the movie actually starts.

This has to be one of Roth's more gutless films, we've grown accustomed to his brutal gore and violence, but this one is surprisingly void of that. Instead, we have one death that is minor and Keanu even makes it all the way to the end, and the girls get no comeuppance either. After having a weird Keanu Reeves threesome, the girls reveal that they are 15 years old and Keanu is now a pedophile, which seems like it might be the bold line that this movie takes, sort of a Hard Candy type story, but even that turns out to be untrue when (spoiler alert) the girls admit to being in their 20s.

The acting is awful, the story is garbage, and it's really hard to get yourself invested in the movie at any point. Even when you think the girls are as young as they claim to be, you find yourself wondering how the hell they were able to subdue a full grown Keanu Reeves more than three f**king times in the movie. In the end, because who cares, they post a video of one of the girls having sex with Keanu (while he is tied to a bed and protesting), as proof that Keanu is a horrible monster, on Facebook (because…Facebook), and of course people start responding in horror and disgust. The girls leave him buried up to his neck in the back yard and run along scott free, while Keanu frees a hand (somehow) and accidentally likes the sex video instead of deleting it. Is… is that a joke Eli Roth? Because it's not funny.

Hands down, this is one of the most offensively bad movies that I've seen in a long time, and you're much better off to skip it. Check out John Wick instead, that movie is f**king awesome. Look forward to seeing your next one Roth, I'm sure it'll be a masterpiece.

www.barleydoeshorror.com

Terrible, Unbelievable Garbage

[megamelfina-995-947675 · 12 September 2017]

I pretty much never leave a review for a movie.

I also pretty much never stop a movie or book before I finish it.

This movie was so bad that both happened. It's complete trash. The characters are unbelievable, the situation is absurd, and the acting leaves a lot to be desired. It's incredibly slow and there's basically no story or reason to be invested.

Avoid.

Life Is Not a Fairy Tale

[Better_Sith_Than_Sorry · 7/10 · 5 July 2023]

Plot In a Nutshell: A family man (Keanu Reeves) gives shelter to two seemingly lost young women caught in a rainstorm, realizing too late they are not as innocent and helpless as they first seemed.

Why I rated it a '7': This movie will likely get under your skin. It might even aggravate you. But boy is it effective in doing that, and so credit must be given.

As mentioned, the family man (Reeves) finds himself in way over his head when two pretty young things come knocking. He tries to hold his own but is soon overwhelmed by their aggressive sexual talk and behavior, as probably 99% of guys would be. When he finally makes a stand and it seems his ordeal is over, we learn it's really just beginning.

What makes the film effective is that most of what we see seems believable. We don't know why the girls are acting this way, but we don't have to know. Why did that dude go shoot up the school in Uvalde? Who the heck knows? But we know he did it. People do evil things all of the time. This is life. This is reality. Life is not a fairy tale.

I see several comments on here complaining about the ending. They wanted Reeves to "get justice." Well, again, this is reality. Good does not always win over evil. Things do not always end "happily ever after." Sorry. In real life, sometimes the bad guy does win. Deal with it. If you want fairy tale endings, then go back to watching Disney films, and leave adult films for the adults lol.

P. S. Getting real tired of reading reviews where someone writes "this is the worst movie ever." That is pretty much the most pathetic, exaggerated, unimaginative comment you could make. Do better.

Oh my freaking God this is so terrible

[parkway-31497 · 1/10 · 20 December 2015]

I'm a rare poster here at IMDb. Good movies? They get enough praise without me joining in the chorus. Average films? There's usually enough people on each side to adequately debate the pros and cons. But a film this ridiculously bad has, if nothing else, crossed whichever threshold is required to motivate me to reset my long forgotten IMDb login details and hopefully save some poor souls the 90 odd minutes of their lives, and (god forbid) their hard earned on a ticket.

It's so hard to know where to begin, so, as a wiser person than me once suggested, I will begin at the beginning. The acting, from the get go, is so wooden, unbelievable and shallow that not only did I not feel any connection to the characters, they were actually making me angry! Keanu is has always been pretty one dimensional, but he takes it to a new level with his performance here. In this role as a supposedly doting father, it felt like he has never spent more than five minutes around any kid. The wife was equally unconvincing and the kids were so bad they wouldn't get a role on a home-brand cola commercial. I did however quite like the Boston Terrier playing the role of the family pet, 'Monkey', and I feel like he did his best to carry this stinker, but with limited screen time there was only so much he could do.

Enter the 2 mysterious young women...who continue what has become the well established, by now 20 minute old tradition of corny, unconvincing Knock Knock performances.

The direction is lousy. I'm no film buff, but I watch enough of them. When I saw Eli Roth was the director in the opening credits, I said to my wife 'I think he has done some cool stuff'. Half way through this stinker I looked him up, and realised that, no...no he hasn't done anything even remotely decent in his entire career. A bit of shock horror in Hostel, a tenuous claim to fame at best, and then nothing. And his lack of talent is glaringly obvious here. I think I had confused him with a hybrid of Tim Roth and possibly Elijah Wood? I dunno...but Eli Roth shall forever more be the huge red flag he rightly is.

The story...let's call it a "story" for the sake of this review anyway. There's so much that could be said, so I'll simply say that it sucked in ways that few things have ever sucked before. It pioneers new ways to suck that modern scientific research in sucking are yet to even discover.

And the final cherry on this s#!t cake, was, after breaking my spirit and will to live, to break my heart to. Using the Pixies classic Where is My Mind as the closing track. Which the Pixies must have authorise...which defies comprehension. They made great money off their last tours, and allowed it to be used to close that all time classic Fight Club.

And so ends my review of this diabolically bad film. If I save one person the price of a ticket, or an hour an a half of their precious existence, it'll have all been worth it.

I want a revenge sequel

[qmasterworks · 7/10 · 20 October 2015]

I loved Eli Roth immediately after Hostel 1. I knew this man can deal with human nature. I follow his work since then. This feature shows a man taken at his soft spot when he was not expecting any trouble. Sometimes people give in to temptations of much lesser magnitude. He made a wrong decision, he got what was coming. But the ending! Imagine he is an idiot and cannot explain his wife that he was attacked and framed. Imagine his wife is an idiot, did not believe him, took the kids and divorced him. That would be the suggested ending, won't it. What seems to be a moral story leaves an unfinished business. I want to see the architect taking cold revenge. Track down the ladies, think a little, and turn their lives into a living hell. They'd played their game and had had their fun on account of the architect and other people; now they have it coming. Give us the revenge sequel!

Complete garbage

[devinbrown-19091 · 1/10 · 20 April 2019]

This movie is utter garbage, these women wouldn't leave him alone and he didn't just tell them they need to leave, like a normal person would do.

Too scared. Couldn't sleep afterwards.

[ThomDerd · 8/10 · 2 June 2018]

Simple film with eerie, Eli-Roth-like-atmosphere. Storyline: 2 young beautiful ladies appear in the front door of settled-down Keanu and then...

As a viewer, you already know where this is going after 15-20 minutes.

Pass the half hour mark and then the movie accelerates with some very creepy and funny moments.

I think that if another actor would have been casted instead, maybe the element of humor would have been absent, so you might enjoy seeing Keanu Reeves reacting in adverse situations.

Pros: unpredictability, good shots, good atmosphere overall and subtle comical moments.

Cons: pace slow at times, dialogue in the beginning seems a bit discouraging but it gets better later on.

Worth the time, 8/10.

A Very Guilty Pleasure. But A Legitimately Good Movie, If Not for Everyone.

[ryanpersaud-59415 · 7/10 · 9 January 2022]

The Good: When I first saw Knock Knock, I recognized it as being a very bad, if not fun and frankly, titillating movie. It was "so stupid," and ridiculous that I couldn't help but find enjoyment from it. I still think this is the case: this movie is both intentionally and unintentionally funny. It has some awful dialog and questionable performances. There are a ton of logical issues (more on this later) that take away from it.

And yet, Knock Knock is fun as heck. Eli Roth knows how to direct a movie and the entire opening is a masterclass of efficient (if awkward) storytelling. When Bel and Genesis (dumb names, I agree) show up, the entire sequence is so well done. I love how gradually Evan (Keanu) loosens up and begins to realize the seduction taking place. I'm going to say out loud what most heterosexual men watching this probably thought: Armas and Izzo are incredibly sexy and do a fantastic job. At the climax (hehe) of the scene, we get an explosion of sex and lust that's good enough to go toe to toe with erotic thrillers of years before.

Frankly, Armas and Izzo (whom I thought were awful the first time I saw this thing) were actually pretty excellent. You can't really tell what they're deal is and they come off as completely unhinged, if not particularly scary. And yes, I cannot deny there's a bit of a sexy eye candy and a point or two for the nudity. Whatever, I'm a dude.

I think as a man, this movie really does speak to us in a different way. This isn't a movie to watch with your girlfriend or wife next to you, because let's be honest, uncomfortable questions arise. And, I think the film does a good job with the sexual politics: is Evan truly "wrong" here? Could anyone really resist this "free pizza?" (I think the movie kind of reveals its position on the question with this scene and the ending, btw) If no man can resist a moment of weakness when faced with temptation, are there truly any good men out there? I like thought provoking movies, and while this one is about as subtle as a sledgehammer, it's something to think about.

I also want to highlight Keanu Reeves here. Let's be honest: he's not a good actor. He seems like a fantastic human being, but there isn't going to be a "get Keanu his Oscar" campaign anytime soon. And while he's quite bad in portions of this movie, when he's campy, it's FANTASTIC. The aformentioned "free pizza" rant is possibly the best performance he's ever done. The end scene is so visually strange and complemented by his manic performance, that it had me in tears. This movie isn't meant to be taken all that seriously and if you can enjoy it on that level, it works.

The Bad: That isn't to say I can't understand why people flat out HATE this movie (more on that later). There are A LOT of logical inconsistencies here and unrealistic moments. Why would Evan believe the two of them are minors? Seriously? Where is everyone in this neighbourhood? You're telling me he can't overpower these two 100 lb girls? Really?

And, as much as I praised Izzo and Armas before, I can't deny they're masterful actors in isolation. Them, in combination with Reeves, create some truly hilarious moments of bad acting. Eli Roth isn't known for great dialog either and um...yes, that criticism stands.

The Ugly: Knock Knock is fun. It's a guilty pleasure, for sure, but I don't think the hate it gets is warranted. I suspect a lot of people dislike Eli Roth, for one, and American audiences tend to be very sex negative. A movie that explores psychosexuality, the male lust for young women, the morality of "free pizza" etc. Is not going to be a mainstream film.

But, I'd say give it a chance and I'm sure you'll be entertained. Just...maybe give it a pre-watch yourself before watching it with anyone else.

Worst. Movie. Ever.

[divergent-59727 · 1/10 · 21 September 2019]

I can see Eli Roth making this movie but why did Keanu ever decide to star in this obnoxious excuse of a horror thriller? Was so intrigued and curious at the starting but halfway through I had to fight my urge to strangle the girls. People watch movies to laugh their heads off, be kept at the edge of their seats or feel good. This movie has incredibly achieved neither of them. 2 mins of silence for those who wasted 120 mins of their precious lives in watching this intolerable so called movie.

Why didn't I believe the bad reviews.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 2/10 · 12 October 2015]

I read through lots of the reviews, and thought these guys are being harsh, it can't possibly be that bad can it?.....well the answer is yes.

In brief, Keanu Reeves plays Evan, an architect and former DJ, seemingly with the perfect life, he's successful, he has a beautiful wife and two kids. On the morning of his birthday his family go off to the seaside leaving him alone. He's hard at work when he gets a knock at the door, two rain soaked teenage girls, claiming they're lost, looking for a family. Reluctantly he takes them in, they flirt with him, and end up seducing him and sleeping with him. Next morning they've trashed the kitchen, and refuse to leave, behaving rather oddly. The girls claim they were under 15, leaving him guilty of rape, he manages to kick them out. Not done with him they later break in and tie him up, and then the real torture starts (more so for the viewer then Keanu.)

There are times when the acting becomes rather woeful, the scene with the neighbour, is like something out of a budget horror movie, it was shambolic. The torture game show part too, just horrendous, I mean could he not have overpowered them?

Evan says the following 'I'm so f***ing stupid,' he wasn't wrong.

There aren't many good points unfortunately, I believe when they thought of this film, someone fantasised about breaking in and seducing Keanu, then made a bad film around the one concept. One of the main problems is that there isn't a single likable character in the film, who really cares what happens to any of them. It's a shame are there was lots of potential.

Fair play to Keanu, he's playing a character of 43, I had to google his age, playing this he was fifty, he doesn't even look 40. He's ageing very well, there i've found a positive.

The film flopped badly in the UK cinemas. The moral of the story is believe the reviews on IMDb!!

Terrible movie - like bad B movie with Keanu - Why did he make it

[filmtravel101 · 1/10 · 17 November 2017]

This film is probably the worst i have seen in a long time. Why on earth did Keanu make this film. Without him this movie would have been an immediate to video piece of junk. Written by a moron with child like mentality. Makes one wonder why he would do this film

The whole premise is insane and has no point whatsoever. The girls seduce and almost force a married man to have sex and think that is okay and then turn on him. Wow.. what has happened to Hollywood to green light this type of junk. I want my 2 hours back and hope nobody else watches this crap. Even Ana de Armas is a waste of a pretty face and acts like an imbecile. No surprise it bombed at the theatre.

Eli Roth must be pretty desperate to make a movie like this. At least Hostel had a decent premise and resonated but this one is terrible. I give it a 1 star because there is no ZERO.

Save your money and even on Amazon for free it is still painful to watch.

Eli Roth remakes a movie that wasn't even that good to begin with, and somehow makes it worse

[IonicBreezeMachine · 4/10 · 27 March 2021]

Set on Fathers' Day weekend, successful architect Evan Webber (Keanu Reeves) prepares for a weekend of work while his wife and kids enjoy a weekend at the beach. On his first night home during a rainstorm two young women Bel and Genesis (Ana de Armas and Lorenza Izzo) arrive at his doorstep asking for help. After he allows them in the two seduce Evan resulting in a threeway. After Evan's infidelity, the two reveal their true intentions wreaking havoc on Evan's home and life and subject Evan to increasingly intense psychological and physical tortures which may culminate in his death.

Directed by Eli Roth Knock Knock is an uncredited remake of 1977s Death Game (though the original director and stars are executive producers). Knock Knock hits all the beats from the original while also updating the premise with references to contemporary society and technology. I honestly didn't like Death Game when I saw it because I found the plot repetitive and the characters annoying, but I did give it props for being a well made attempt by an inexperienced director and having a chilling performance from Sondra Locke. Knock Knock is certainly more polished of a product in terms of film making in comparison to its more grind house level predecessor, but while the package has been glossed up the content is considerably lesser this time around.

The opening 40 minutes are easily the best part of Knock Knock as we establish Evan's sexual frustration and hectic family situation that build up to the seduction. It's honestly really well told and is much better here than it was in the original 1977 film where the wife and kids were basically non entities for much of the original film's runtime. The film is also well shot with great looking establishment shots of the house.

Unfortunately beneath the coat of polish that's been applied many elements have been downgraded in terms of quality despite a supposedly more experienced director, Roth, helming the remake of a film that was made by an amateur. Keanu Reeves is a good actor, but only if given the right material. Reeves in Knock Knock does have a fun brief shining moments such as scene midway through the movie where he's trying to rebuke the advances of the seducers, but it feels like the role was written with someone like Nicolas Cage in mind and they just shoehorned Reeves into the role because they couldn't get him. Reeves still sporting his John Wick doo just doesn't sell it as a workaday family man and doesn't sell a role that he just doesn't fit into.

Ana de Armas and Lorenza Izzo start off well enough as the seducers when they first arrive in the movie, but around the halfway point where they reveal their true intentions they become absolutely insufferable to listen to. Not only do they act like oversexed brats with middle school level vocabularies, they have this unearned sense of "holier than thou" moral superiority that makes them extra aggravating. While movies with killers with prideful moral superiority complexes can work, such as Kiefer Sutherland as The Voice in Phone Booth or Tobin Bell as The Jigsaw Killer in Saw, those movies at least had some level of self awareness that their killers were hypocritical scum doing ex post fact justifications of their actions. Knock Knock is more confused and feels like it muddled its intentions much like Nicolas Cage's Wicker Man remake where they replaced the Paganism/Christianity dynamic with a fundamentally confused masculinity/femininity dynamic. Roth tries to update the very 70s counterculture girls with updated equivalents for the digital age, but it comes off more as an excuse for Roth to amp up the annoyance of characters who were already pretty grating to begin with.

Knock Knock is Roth at his worst. While it's not as bad as his worst movie, Hostel Part II, by virtue of at least being unintentionally fascinating in some confusing choices it's still an unnecessary remake of a very flawed movie that is not approved upon save for technical details. It's not completely without merit thanks to some decent cinematography and brief moments of good acting, but if you have a choice between this and the original, stick with the original, for all its flaws it at least had the excuse of an inexperienced director.

Poor Neo...

[Dr_Sagan · 23 December 2015]

There are already ...261 (!) reviews for this B (or maybe C?) movie that came out only 2 months ago and that means something, i think.

First of all this is a remake of the movie "Death Game (1977)" starring Sondra Locke and Colleen Camp. The 2 women are serving as producers in the 2015 version while Colleen Camp also stars in a minor role.

This is Camp-y movie (pun intended!) with a lot of torture horror and a couple (mild in my opinion) erotic scenes. The 2 main actresses Lorenza Izzo and Ana de Armas look crazy enough but Keanu Reeves's performance leave a lot to be desired. Maybe we have used to see him as a hero (from the Matrix to John Wick) and we cannot accept to watch him being lame and weak.

There is obviously a moral here, but the question "who could resist" is also strongly present.

As a movie it's OK and you might have some fun watching it, but if you can't stand movies where the "hero" does all the wrong moves maybe you should avoid it. The direction of photography is bright and that's a plus, but if you are a careful viewer you will find a lot of goofs including numerous continuity errors which could ruin some of the fun.

In the end you might want for the movie to last a couple of minutes more to see the outcome or even the true motives of what just happened...

Overall: Not as bad as most of the other 261 reviews might want you to believe. (Some of them compare Keanu Reeves's recent choices to those of Nicolas Cage, so they might be driven by some hate). See it if you want a light campy thriller for the evening.

You either love it or hate it

[shinsrevenge · 7/10 · 26 April 2016]

What a movie. A psychothriller at its best, by the meaning of the word. Keano Reeves plays a loving father and good husband. He has a nice job and a great home.

Everything is turned upside down as two young women knock at his door while the rest of the family is away, seduce him and then pretend that he is a pedophile. As they keep torturing him and destroy more and more of his house and life, it becomes clear that they are deranged, evil psychos.

Nothing that you haven't seen before. The surprise in this movie (and probably the reason why so many people hate it) is the message. The movie gives you the impression that it suggests that Keanu Reeves really was a pedophile, terrible father etc. and that he deserved whatever he got. This is furthermore confirmed by the two psycho-girls getting away with everything they done and the attempt to turn the ending scene into something silly and funny.

This is just wrong. And this kept me from giving the movie more stars. But if you can ignore the questionable morale views of "Knock Knock" and focus on the story, you will find yourself well entertained. The performance of the young women was great. Sick and twisted beyond good and evil. Keanu Reeves was decent for most parts, but he got a bit too whiney towards the end.

Anyway, the amount of tension was enjoyable. You couldn't stop wondering what would happen next and you had a hard time dealing with it too. Some of the scenes were almost disturbing. But in a good way. An interesting flick and recommended for anyone who enjoys psychological thrillers.

intelligent competent architect overpowered and outwitted by two loony girls

[boykol · 1/10 · 17 December 2015]

Movie is unrealistic in these ways. Keanu's victim character actually called 911 and reported a break in. One of the girls quickly hung up the phone before he could say more. In such an instance it is police policy to visit... they would have been there within minutes, taking a report and names of everyone. Game over right there.

Size and strength advantage was overwhelmingly in Evan's favor. Even when he realized the seriousness of the situation, he was overpowered by just one of the two girls in a fight, not a tag team attack (even then, in real life they'd lose every time).

With his life clearly in grave danger, and within grappling distance, Evan makes no move for the girl pointing a gun at him. For one, I watched closely and her fingers were BEHIND the trigger. Not to mention it's a Beretta 92fs with a very slow heavy double action first trigger, also to his advantage. It's his gun, he'd know both of these things. Further considering the efforts to hide it from his kids in the sculpture/vase, it's very likely the SAFETY WAS ON. I rewound and it appeared to be on but somewhat dark and blurry. Either way with your life on the line you lunge, especially with an obvious total gun novice that is stupidly too close with her fingers BEHIND the trigger. All of this was unbelievable.

Digging that hole would have taken those little girls hours (they likely would have been exhausted and totally spent, unable to chase Evan down later when he made a break for it). Further, the girls would have been too deep in the hole working and distracted, and that ridiculous cord tie up job could have been quickly worked loose with any adrenaline fueled effort while they were toiling away. He could have gotten his gun and game over.

The comedic 'liking' the horrible Facebook post by accident and the kid making the line about daddy having a party took away from the serious thriller aspects that the director tried but failed to achieve throughout the movie. Still, bad call, counterproductive decision.

Not realistic enough to be terrifying, more like a bad unintended dark comedy.

I genuinely don't understand all the hate?

[birdieleigh · 6/10 · 16 May 2020]

Maybe I have bad taste or am just the specific niche audience this movie was made for, but I really don't get all the 1-star reviews. I'm glad I chose to watch it anyway! The shortest way to explain it is a gender-swapped Funny Games. This movie takes a lot of cues from other home invasion movies but still had its own flavor.

I think this movie is exactly what it sets out to be, and nothing more: a kinda trashy thriller with attractive people doing weird things. That's it. And I thought it worked for the most part. Anyone who knows Roth's work will see it in this movie-it's just that he usually employs gore to make us uncomfortable, but this time it's...the bizarre. I enjoyed seeing him make a movie that didn't rely on gore at all.

I genuinely laughed in many parts, and I think at least some of that humor was intentional. This is a solid B movie, not too much of a downer due to the great playful acting by Izzo and De Armas. Keanu Reeves feels pretty flat at first but it gets a bit better as the movie goes on. As another reviewer mentioned, if you're familiar with Nic Cage's "not the bees" meme, there's a scene in this movie with similar energy and I laughed pretty hard.

This movie is pretty ridiculous, but that's kind of the point. I thought it was interesting and never got bored. I also liked the way it ended. It won't be for everyone but it worked for me.

Knock Knock is a joke.

[BA_Harrison · 1/10 · 13 August 2017]

I like Keanu Reeves. He's starred in some of my favourite films (Bill and Ted, The Matrix, The Gift) and, by all accounts, he's a stand up bloke in real life. For those reasons, I'll cut him some slack for his godawful performance in Knock Knock. We all make mistakes.

Eli Roth, however, doesn't get off so lightly. He's the biggest hack working in the horror film industry today, his attempts at shock cinema are childish in the extreme, and his braggadocio is thoroughly annoying. Just once I wish he would back up his arrogance with something worthwhile, but, if anything, he gets worse with each film he makes.

The atrocious Knock Knock stars Reeves as Evan, a family man who is almost as perfect as the actor in real life: loving husband, doting father, and talented architect. One rainy night, while Evan is home alone hard at work (his wife and kids having gone to the beach for the weekend), there is a knock knock at the door; Evan goes to see who it could be and is greeted by two young women (wearing very little and soaked to the bone), who claim to be lost. A good samaritan, Evan allows the girls, Bel and Genesis (Ana de Armas and Lorenza Izzo), into his home to dry off and to wait until a taxi arrives; as they pass the time, the young women initiate sexual banter with Evan, eventually seducing the poor man into a wild threesome.

What follows is a masterclass in terrible film-making, with clumsy writing (a whole neighbourhood out for the night. Really?) and woeful acting from its three main stars, who seem to be in competition with each other to see who can turn in the worst performance. As the unhinged girls toy with Evan, Roth's script leaves the viewer wandering what the point of the whole exercise is: it's not scary, it's not suspenseful (largely thanks to the terrible acting), and it doesn't work as a morality play, Evan obviously a decent fellow who, in a moment of weakness, understandably crumbles as two hot and eager young fillies soap each other up in the shower before offering themselves to him on a plate (a scene that earns the film at least one point).

Roth, either unaware of how dumb his film is or simply not bothered, blunders on regardless, giving us a train wreck of a movie that even he will find hard to beat in terms of sheer crappiness.

Film poses an interesting conundrum

[roy696969 · 8/10 · 3 October 2021]

In the end, you're left wondering if the price Evan paid was too high for the moments of fun he had the night before. He's been beaten, toured, his life ruined, and his friend Louis lays dead and paper macheted. Still after all this, we're still left thinking, after knowing all this, is there anything he could have done differently. From a philosophical point of view, it's a no win scenerio.

Future ahead

[sandycochrane-97758 · 7/10 · 13 April 2020]

The acting is so so poor but in the years that I've watched it I honestly believe this will have a cult following oneday

hot crazy chicks

[SnoopyStyle · 3/10 · 13 July 2016]

Evan Webber (Keanu Reeves) is home alone after his happy family left for the weekend. He's trying to work when Genesis (Lorenza Izzo) and Bell (Ana de Armas) knock on his door. They're lost and soaking wet. He calls Uber for them but the aggressive flirts have sex with him. As he tries to make them leave the next morning, they turn out to be less than stable.

The idea of hot crazy chicks as horror villains could be fun. Reeves is playing a relative douche which is hard to root for. The girls are not scary. Their characters border on being comical. They keep threatening as underage but they don't look underage. The first time I took as a comedic hollow threat but it's annoying when it keeps coming back. Eli Roth seems to be going for a different kind of horror. I would be a lot happier if Evan punch out the girls and chop them into pieces. This way is a lazy, silly 'Fatal Attraction'. The part with Louis gets too annoying. Everything is too broad, and too obvious. This is not scary nor thrilling. One could almost see this as camp.