What’s It About
While vacationing at a remote cabin in the woods, a young girl and her parents are taken hostage by four armed strangers who demand they make an unthinkable choice to avert the apocalypse. Confused, scared and with limited access to the outside world, the family must decide what they believe before all is lost.
MOVIESinMO REVIEW
Another movie directed, produced, and partially written by M. Night Shyamalan, or should I say, M. Night Sham. That guy is a sham, the studios have reduced his budget, and those A and B-list stars have nearly vanished from his cast lists. He will never make another film anywhere close to The Sixth Sense, and Knock at the Cabin is proof. This movie has a decent start but gets stale after the first fifteen minutes. So a couple and their daughter are vacationing at some off-the-map cabin when four strangers show up carrying massive, dangerously homemade-looking weapons. Nothing makes sense, but every aspect is explained. The strangers want to talk about the end of the world and what the couple, and their daughter, need to do to prevent it from happening. And that is all they do for the next eighty minutes – talk. But what is there to talk about once you’ve forced yourself into the residence? The end of the world and how you can stop it, of course. The entirety of Knock at the Cabin is four people trying to convince two people that they have been chosen to decide the world’s fate. Every detail regarding the stranger’s plan was fully explained. So it is virtually impossible not to understand this film’s meaning, plot, and purpose. But that’s not the problem with this movie. The real issue is the repetitiveness and pace of it. Once the four strangers entered the cabin, they repeated the same message – “one of you must choose to save humanity.” Not always those exact words, but whatever phrase they could think of to get the family they held hostage to do what they were asking. As stated above, the strangers talked while the three-person family listened FOR THE ENTIRETY OF THE MOVIE. Halfway through, I wanted to walk out, but I thought it would get better. It got worse and more idiotic. The family had chance after chance to escape, but nothing happened as it should because they were as unpredictable as the four strangers. By the end of the movie, you knew everything about everything but the drawn-out path to get there was so boring you didn’t care. Knock at the Cabin has an interesting story presented in the worst way possible. It’s as if the director purposely wanted to suck all the interest out of this film to see if he could make you watch it. Bottom line, regardless of how many moral quotes, facts, or bible verses you put in a movie, it still has to be entertaining.
OUR RATING – AN M. NIGHT SHYAMA-DUMB 2
MEDIA
- Genre – Drama
- Street date
- Digital – February 21st, 2023.
- DVD/Blu-Ray/4K – May 9th, 2023
- Video – 1080p
- Screen size – 2.39:1
- Sound – English (Dolby Atmos, Dolby Digital 2.0 for Bonus Content), French Canadian (Dolby Digital 5.1), and Latin American Spanish (Dolby Digital 5.1)
- Subtitles – English SDH, French, Spanish
Extras
- Deleted Scenes
- They Need Some Time
- Going to Church
- Enjoying the Sun
- Leonard Explains
- Chowblaster Infomercial – Enjoy an extended cut of the TV informercial from the film that features an appearance by M. Night Shyamalan himself.
- Choosing Wisely: Behind the Scenes of KNOCK AT THE CABIN – Examine what drew M. Night Shyamalan to adapt this terrifying story, and how the relationships between characters were unlike any this ensemble cast had ever played before.
- Tools of the Apocalypse – Explore the creation of some of the film’s most terrifying props and learn why they play such an important role in the story.
- Drawing a Picture – See how M. Night Shyamalan envisions his shots in advance of ever turning on the camera, through his extensive use of storyboards.
- Kristen Cui Shines a Light – Take a closer look at actress Kristen Cui’s dynamic performance as Wen in her film debut