My quick rating – 3.5/10. Never Blink kicks off with a dream sequence that might, maybe, sorta mean something later, if you can piece it together from the last-call logic this film serves up. The premise? Five medical students (who apparently got their MDs in improv comedy) discover how to capture what happens when you blink. Turns out, it’s a whole dimension called “the in between,” where the laws of reality are as stable as the script’s internal consistency.
Inside this blink-verse is a monster that honestly doesn’t look half bad, until it keeps popping up like an overexcited party guest who doesn’t know when to leave. By the sixth time it lumbers out of the shadows, you’re wishing it’d just eat these kids so we could all go home.
Speaking of the kids: our brave future doctors have about as much bedside manner as cardboard cutouts. Sure, they seem like a fun crowd for beer pong, but trust them with a scalpel? Hard pass. You could fill a whole ICU with the believability this cast lacks.
The film’s practical effects are decent, the camerawork and lighting surprisingly slick for a low-budget affair, and I’ll admit: 5Revolt’s Alice in Chains-flavored soundtrack slams even though music is interjected at random times. Honestly, I’d rather just download the playlist and save myself the 113-minute slog. Because for a movie that long, the pacing is flatter than the EKG after the script’s pulse gave out.
Somewhere buried in this mess is a cool concept that could’ve been unnerving. Imagine truly never wanting to blink again! Unfortunately, by the time they finish rewriting their own pseudo-science rules for the tenth time, the only thing you’ll fear is that it’s not almost over.
In the end, “Never Blink” might make you keep your eyes wide open but only to check the time, praying the credits start rolling before your patience flatlines (or: “Blink and you’ll miss… absolutely nothing important.”) Oh, I almost forgot, great poster!
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