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.

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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.

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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.
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After skimming through some of these reviews, I'm not sure what people were expecting from Knock Knock. It plays out like a cross between No Good Deed and The Loved Ones. The story isn't original of course but this is Eli Roth's take on a home invasion thriller and it's refreshingly sadistic. Two strangers knock on Keanu Reeves' door, he invites them in, their sociopathic tendencies start to peek through, and things escalate from there. The acting is largely impressive. Keanu comes across as silly at times but, for the most part, he fits the part of the innocent dad and he bounces off the chemistry of the two female leads very well.
Lorenza Izzo and Ana de Armas really make this movie what it is. They have palpable charisma, and they provide Reeves excellent scenarios to react to. The dialogue could sound outlandish and childish if read in a different context, but Izzo and de Armas pull it all off with a straight face and their character's intentions progress to the downright sinister. It's actually interesting subject matter, and Roth does have something to say with this film, and I believe he accomplishes it elegantly with as little blood as possible.
Knock Knock is not perfect - it goes on for a few minutes too long and sometimes Reeves reads lines as if he'd just shot up heroin, but it's intriguing and truly captivating once it gets going and becomes a psychological horror house in its finest moments. Callously covering up a dead body with papier-mâché? That's chilling. Being buried alive? Macabre. It's nice to see Roth hasn't lost his touch, and the humor is definitely there intentional or not. I highly recommend this movie to fans of home invasion thrillers. Just don't go in expecting a polished masterpiece; Knock Knock is depraved, raw and filthy in the best ways possible.

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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!

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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.

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Such a pathetic movie. Watched the movie 'knock knock' because of Keanu Reeves and am so disappointed with the story line and there is nothing thrilling about the movie. What really irritated was Keanu Reeves was like a helpless moron who just couldn't do anything against two teenage girls who go to his home and take him for a ride throughout the movie. Keanu had chances to kick back but instead gets hit by a fork by a teenage girl and gets tied up and that's so ridiculous and finally when you expect some twist you will find that both the girls will bury the so called matrix hero called Keanu Reeves in his own backyard unto his neck and there ends the movie all of sudden...such a waste of money and two hours of precious time.

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After spending a Saturday night watching a film I've been looking forward to see since I first saw the trailer, honestly I feel robbed of an hour and a half I'll never get back. This movie was nothing but a let down. To call this film a horror is like calling Spongebob Squarepants and Thomas the tank engine both horror programs.
You cannot tell the difference between normal Keanu Reeves and tied up petrified Keanu Reeves, it all sounded the same. Whenever he shouted it reminded me of the best cry ever/worst cry ever video in YouTube.
Overall this movie was a huge let down, very good idea for a film but a horrific execution. Save yourself a tenner and buy yourself a Chinese instead of a ticket!

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This is the first review of a movie I've ever written and I wouldn't usually do this, but felt the need to advise people to steer clear of this movie. It was truly one of the worst movies that I've ever seen in my life. I had high hopes for the movie before seeing it, especially since I'm a fan of Keanu Reeves in many of his other movies. However I found the movie to be utterly bizarre and ridiculous and struggled to sit through the whole movie and resist the urge to leave. The acting was really over the top at times and so painful to watch. The plot did have potential and could have been so much better but unfortunately it did not work at all in this movie. Many of the scenes are extremely creepy and perverted, and not what I would expect to see in any movie. I found parts of this movie very difficult to understand and follow, so that I eventually lost interest completely. The ending was one of the biggest disappointments and left me with feelings of relief that it was finally over and feeling like I'd just wasted the last 90 minutes of my life. Avoid this movie at all costs!!

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Despite the warnings from negative reviews and low IMDb rating i watched it anyway... I've always liked Eli Roth mainly for his near show stealing appearance as 'The Bear Jew' in Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds and his movies, though never groundbreaking for me, offered playful b-movie fun. His efforts here seemed to diminish after the initial creation of suspense. Once we move to the second act the script loses any credibility and little is left for creation of further suspense. It's almost as if the idea was to get Keanu to behave somewhat like Nicholas Cage in OMG mode. That idea i couldn't shake and ironically it became what kept me entertained, imagining cage instead of reeves, which wasn't too hard as Keanu seemed to channel the spirit of the rage cage as if he were possessed by him. Don't let my mention of cage fool you, the acting in this movie is sub par, if Keanu isn't The Wicker Man he's the wooden man and the girls act like female villains in a made for TV batman movie. In summary; I found a few things Keanu said in a serious monologue quite laugh out loud funny and the use of a popular pixies track at the end credits reminded me of a student movie using cool music to be cool. All it did was remind me of it's already iconic use in one of my favorite movies. The movie was just bad enough to enjoy it's shitness or i'd have not sat through it. Avoid this if you get offended by crap movies but I'm almost recommending you to watch this for the points I mentioned for your own curiosity. The movie stuck in my mind enough for m to waste time writing this review, i wonder if that was Roth's intention for the audience or he actually took this movie seriously.

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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.

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I have never written a review but sometime a movie shakes you so much that you are forced to do things you have never done. This is the most irritating movie I have ever seen with all the characters demanding your anger to break the screen on whatever platform you are watching it. I could have stopped it after 10 minutes only but I had read the review where it was said that a 'good' twist is in the store at the end. OMG!...nothing... this movie is nothings and I pity Keanu for producing it. How can he be so dumb to produce a movie where he did the worst acting of his career or for that matter worst of the worst actor's. Both the female characters were so dumbly irritating that you want to kill them while watching the movie. No story, no background music, no plot, no thrill nothing....even nothing has something but this movie...its vacuum!! Don't waste your time on this ...you are better off shitting in your toilet for 2 hours rather than watching this disgust.

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I first watched this film by renting it from a Redbox. The rental is only $1.50 and honestly the amount is so little I usually do not care if I rent a bad movie but, I really feel like I actually wasted my money on this film. At first this film seemed good from the trailers, it seemed like a good twist on a thriller and it really piqued my interest. So when I saw it on Redbox I was excited because I haven't seen a good thriller in a long time. So when I got home and popped it in my player after the first ten minutes I knew this film was going to go downhill and had no end in sight. Keanu Reeves usually plays as a strong, smart, and capable character in his movies; not a wimpy, stupid, and really a down right moron. This fact alone disappoints me because I am a Reeve fan and a little part of that admiration just went away. The film started well, with him sidestepping their advances and being seeing the girls as young and stupid, but in the bathroom scene apparently all of that goes out the window just because they're naked. Wow. As the film progresses it seems to become a slight against men, by portraying them to be these idiotic, misogynistic, and sex on the brain oafs that will do anything as long as there is a piece of 'meat' hanging in front of them. This becomes overly clear when the character, 'Genesis' has the line, 'You all are the same' and 'They never say no.' I understand that this is a film but to create something so bigoted and dogmatic and think that it is acceptable; it really begins to bring to light the morals and philosophies of the writers and producers. I know that this will probably make some folks mad or angry but flip the situation around. If it had been a woman on the bed getting raped by a man, I'd put money on the fact that this movie wouldn't have made it beyond the notepad of the first writer. We as a society tend to have double standards that usually benefit one party or another, and I completely understand why this happens and why it is bad. But to campaign against this problem and to become a more accepting society, movies like this are not helping whatsoever. I am not trying to suggest censoring literature and media, but to have a film that is so one-sided is very detrimental to furthering our society to become rational and fair. Overall, I was extremely disappointed with this film. It will only make the viewer angry and frustrated. I feel this film will only please one particular group of people, the more radical feminist groups. More liberal feminists will probably be angered by the movie because it really puts a bad name on the movement, by making it seem that this is what feminism hopes to prove. The intention of my review is not one of contention and hostility but to give my opinion and hopefully shine some light on the reasoning behind it. I just ask that before you go and fire away a comment or a reply to this review, to try and see it from a different my perspective, a 22 year old man that is still trying to understand how the world works. Thank you. P.S. I use the word 'feminism' and 'feminist,' not as a derogatory remark or slight, but just as a descriptor of a noble movement or person.

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i just signed up so i can post this review. please do not waste an hour and a half of your life watching this movie. do anything else instead. This is the first review of a movie I've ever written and I wouldn't usually do this, but felt the need to advise people to steer clear of this movie. a bad bad movie that will leave you with a bad taste. 5.8 or whatever rating this movie has its way higher than it deserves. Overall this movie was a huge let down The acting was really over the top at times and so painful to watch. My advise is, don't see this film, don't waste your time. i don't know what else to say. and with this i met their requirements of 10 lines of text.

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One of the awful movie i ever saw. Don't waste your time on this movie, you will regret it. It's a simple movie with routine story. Don't know how Keanu Reeves accepted this movie and acted in it. Acting was bad. His performance was so terrible. I was laughing. During hide and seek game also Keanu Reeves doesn't think to kill them but tries to run away. Even that guy Louis jump for the medicine but doesn't get idea to beat those girls and take it. No neighbors in that area. What a waste story! Never thought Keanu Reeves will act in this kind of movie. Seriously it is waste of our time and money. I suggest you stay the miles away from it.

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The short summary line was 'A pair of femme fatales wreak havoc on the life of a happily married man.'
The film was literally just that... The guy who is very reluctant winds up having sex with 2 girls and they then pretty much torture him... That is all that happens, like... Literally there are no developments or advancements to the story or any twists, it really did disappoint me.
Keanu Reeves' acting is so unnatural that it is actually laughable, like... He just doesn't seem natural at all.
If you want a decent home invasion film, watch You're Next... It gives you the action and an alright story... This however, was just a huge disappointment.
I'm giving it a 3 based solely on production.

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Eli Roth is back! Eli Roth is back! Eli Roth is back with a movie that might just be worse than all the other dreadful crap he made. If he thought that the status and talent of Keanu Reeves was going to save a script that can have only been written by a ten-year-old, well, maybe he should stop thinking altogether.
Knock Knock, a cheap copy of Funny Games, Fatal Attraction, and god knows what else,, is a sexual but not sexy thriller that tells the story of Bel and Genesis, two 'Femme fatales' that wreck not just the home of a married Evan Webber (Keanu Reeves) but also his life.
First and foremost, Genesis and Bel are far from being femme fatales. A femme fatale has a certain look. A femme fatale uses and hypnotizes a man and with it has the ability to get him to do anything she wants him to do. A femme fatale is a woman a man would do just about anything for. A femme fatale is a woman whose sex appeal is so deadly that just looking at her will make anyone, even the viewer, drool. I don't see any of that in Knock Knock. Yes, they are 'attractive' in their own way, and being all wet from rain certainly adds to that, as most guys would say, but that is where it all ends.
I do however have to admit that the first act that focuses on the seduction was pretty believable. The girls sure know how to seduce a man. But even that ends as the story progresses (or not so much). The performances by Lorenza Izzo ( Misses Roth) and Ana de Armas made me want to knit my eyelids close. It was forced, amateur, risible. Maybe they should take some more acting classes.
Keanu Reeves is the only reason this movie is not going to get the same rating all his other trash movies got. But even this does not have a happy ending. While Keanu Reeves is an actor with class and talent, Knock Knock should have not been on his 'to do list.' I felt so bad for him for having had to memorize such awful, on the nose dialogue. If he hadn't been Keanu Reeves the great actor and had been a newcomer instead, Knock Knock would have closed the career doors for him.
I guess the lack of good acting in Knock Knock takes us back to the directing. Eli Roth compares himself to the great ones like Hitchcock, Polanski, Tarantino. Eli Roth claims that he is still growing as a director, and developing his style / taste. There is no such thing as 'growing as a director.' You either have the skill, or you don't have it. If you make ten crappy movies (like Hostel and everything else he made) , please don't try to come back twenty years later with a copy movie and claim that you can still convince people of your 'hallucinated directing skills.'
Here comes the worst part:
As the IMDb states, Knock Knock was written by three writers: Eli Roth, Nicolas Lopez, and Guillermo Amoedo.
It looks like Roth works with these writers on all of his movies. But what surprises me is that none of the movies they wrote together ever received superb reviews / ratings. They can't write. The stories are predictable. The dialogues are boring and on the nose. They fill their stories with clichés and cheap jokes.
So, this is it. Knock Knock. A movie that should have not been made. It would have spared many people's eyes from seeing such trash.

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Keanu Reeves , I am huge fan of Him, but he disappointed me and all his fans by signing this senseless script.
All team of this movie are sick ..you guys need some serious treatment.No message, no story, no suspense, no climax..only irritating madness of two stupid girls are shown in this movie.There should be a penalty charged to director and script writer of this movie. Keanu Reeves..what has happened to you...U gave us Point Break..and now you doing this ???
Such a pathetic movie. Watched the movie 'knock knock' because of Keanu Reeves and am so disappointed with the story and there is nothing thrilling about the movie. What really irritated was Keanu Reeves was like a helpless moron who just couldn't do anything against two teenage girls who go to his home and take him for a ride throughout the movie. Keanu had chances to kick back but instead gets hit by a fork by a teenage girl and gets tied up and that's so ridiculous and finally when you expect some twist you will find that both the girls will bury the so called matrix hero called Keanu Reeves in his own backyard unto his neck and there ends the movie all of sudden...such a waste of money and two hours of precious time.
Keanu Reeves ..next time please sign a better script.Do Not spoil your name.

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Words cannot describe how much I hated this movie. The sick twisted person who wrote this screenplay should be held for observation. I am normally a happy fun loving guy but this movie ruined my evening and I crashed at 10:30 on a weekend night.
Since I need to write 10 lines to meet the minimum requirements so I can warn other potential viewers about this movie, I will give a few sentence synopsis. Two young girls break in on a nice guy at his home one stormy evening. They assault and brutally torture him over a couple of days. Nothing sexy or funny or intriguing. Just brutal torture and murder.

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I was able to view this at Sundance and couldn't have been more disappointed. I'm not sure if Eli Roth was trying to make this a campy horror, a legitimate horror, or a social commentary. He failed miserably in all three regards.
1. As an adoring fan of Cabin Fever, I keep hoping Roth with find a way back to creating edgy horror that doesn't take itself too seriously. The last two minutes did elicit a few chuckles from the audience but seemed inconsistent with the rest of the movie which had a very serious tone.
2. The movie had the potential to be a thrilling horror along the lines of Fatal Attraction. Unfortunately the seduction felt forced and the mental instability of the girls completely unbelievable. Furthermore, the horror scenarios were so contrived that I found myself getting bored rather than terrified: a small Lorenza Izzo overpowering a large Keanu Reeves, using extension cords for restraining when they can't generate sufficient tension, being held at gun point just inches from a semiautomatic gun that likely has not had a round chambered, Aaron Burns leaving a tied up Keanu Reeves because the girls are destroying art, the cliché tripping while trying to run away, the premise that all neighbors within earshot of a screaming Keanu were on vacation…the movie was one 'Oh come on' after another.
3. The movie ends with the premise that, presented with temptation, all men will succumb. As mentioned, the seduction felt forced and completely unnatural. Keanu Reeves was a great father and husband. His obvious discomfort at the two womens' advances vanishes instantaneously as he becomes a flirtatious DJ and the rather irate Keanu, upon finding the two naked women, is suddenly pacified as soon as they unzip his fly. I find it hard to believe that Keanu Reeves character would have done anything he was shown to do in the movie and therefore reject the social premise that men are sexual deviants.
Most of the conversation I heard after the movie was negative. I'm still holding out hope that Eli Roth has another great movie in him. But this definitely wasn't it.

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It's hard to begin with dreadful film. I went into it with low expectation's and was still utterly flabbergasted by how awful this was! Knock Knock makes Batman & Robin look like Oscar worthy movie.
I don't know what Keanu Reeves was thinking when he agreed to star in this movie but after the incredible John Wick I thought he was getting his career back on track after a run of disastrous movies but I guess not. His performance was so terrible that the audience were laughing out loud, laughing.
I won't spoil the film for you but it's difficult to watch, I've never seen so many people walk out of movie before, honestly.
This is 99 minutes of pure hell as a viewer. It's not even in the 'it's so bad it's good' club. The film is tripe, utterly unwatchable completely unredeemable in any sense.
This film is a career killer and I suggest you stay the hell away from it.
If you want to watch an adult movie in the cinema go see Mad Max: Fury Road. Trust me, Knock Knock is one you don't want to watch.

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STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday Morning
Architect Evan (Keanu Reeves) lives in a nice, swanky house with his wife Karen (Ignacia Allamand) and their two young boys. One weekend, Karen takes the boys away with her, leaving Evan on his own. He gets a surprise one night when two young women, Genesis (Lorenza Izzo) and Bell (Ana de Armas) knock on his door, claiming to have broken down and in need of a shower and a taxi. Initially pleasant, after luring Evan into a night of soaring passion, they then refuse to leave and subject him to a relentless, psychopathic barrage of violence and humiliation.
Playing like a variation on The Human Centipede set-up (and, by the end, astonishingly much more horrible than that film), despite not having much opening development between the main character and his loved ones, Knock Knock does manage to generate an interesting premise for the beginning. As soon as the girls arrive, knowing that things are going to take a sinister turn, it's intriguing to see just how this will play out and why. But after that, it just goes to pot and ends up leaving a really nasty taste in the mouth.
With elements of Phone Booth and Hard Candy chucked in to the plot, this skirts around the issue of young girls looking older than they are, and suckering older guys into going with them, an issue that's been playing in the media lately. But rather than using this as a plot device for some deep thought, it just degenerates into a relentlessly gratuitous and nasty piece of work, like a long winded, less grounded version of the superior British flick Cherry Tree Lane. Izzo and de Amis are a pair of seriously deranged, psychotic devil women, who just serve to distract from Reeves, who is as wooden as ever.
By the end, it's just started to become annoying and stupid, with only the theme from the end of Fight Club playing over the end credits to remind you of something better. You think of those two girls up the north of England who battered that woman to death in her house, and when you're expected to be entertained by something as dispiriting as this, it puts things in perspective. **

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I had very high hopes for this film since I like this genre and I watched Eli Roth's well directed films before. When I watch the trailer I said like 'oh there is Keanu and Eli Roth and two chicks omg there will be some blood, some terror and action, this gonna be a great popcorn film... but it is not that film at all. The plot was promising but that was just all. I lost in facebook, on my phone... while trying to keep attantion to film. There were really messed up scenes without a point, if Eli Roth tried to tell some story and wanted to make a point I can easily say he failed hard this time. I watched the whole film to the end with thoughts like 'cmon Eli Roth show me some surprises of yours' but the finale was just bizare like rest of the film. As a result, avoid this film and save your 90 minutes.

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To start this off I want to let everyone know this is my first review, so please bear with me and I'll do my best to bring you a good review.
I was excited for this movie for two reasons. One because of Keanu Reeves, I mean who wouldn't be excited to see him after thoroughly enjoying John Wick and I wanted to see if he could keep climbing back up to the popularity he used to have. The second reason was that the trailer looked quite interesting when I saw it, really made me want to see it.
The problem is it's another one of those movies that we've seen before where the only interesting parts of the movie have already been shown to you in the trailer. The story just seems to have no substance and the characters are just not fleshed out at all, not to mention there really is no Horror or Thrills as the genre listing would show. I admit there's mystery, but not in a good way.
**********SPOILER WARNING**********
This whole story is bonkers, the girls that show up at Evan's (Keanu's character) door end up seducing him after his repeated attempts to stave them off and a whole series of weird stuff happens. They overstay their welcome and claim they're underage so that Evan won't call the police, which is completely dropped 4 minutes later when he actually does call the police and one of the girls hangs up his phone and just asks for a ride home. After Evan is back home, he hears a noise and decides to check what it was, always a good idea, right? They knock him out of course and start having some sick fun with him like recording him having sex with one of the girls while she's dressed in his daughter's clothes. Then after an escape attempt Evan's incapacitated by a fork stab to the shoulder, oh yeah he had surgery on his shoulder, the opening of the movie makes sure you know that. They then tie him up in a chair and play a gameshow they called 'Who wants to be a pedophile?' furthering the supposed belief that they are underage, so I just gotta kinda roll with it here even though they don't look anything like they're underage.
The acting by Keanu through the whole rest of the movie is pretty bad, like when he gets an answer wrong during the gameshow he gets a loud high pitched squeal played in his ears via headphones, which I don't know why he didn't just shake his head and make them fall off but oh well. He says 'stop stop stop, my ears my ears, I'll go deaf I'll go deaf' in the most unbelievable way possible, doesn't sound like he's in any pain whatsoever. The rest is actually pretty boring, Luis (guy coming to pick up a sculpture that Evan's wife made for exhibit) dies after tripping and hitting his head; the girls Papier-mâché and dispose of his body; the girls tell Evan they're going to kill him at dawn and proceed to tear up and vandalize the house; Evan tries to knock a ceramic egg off a shelf that contains a gun but the girls accidentally knock it off and find the gun first and Evan is given one more chance to escape. He grabs a knife and runs outside only to trip and fall and be captured again by the girls.
Alright, the ending. After this whole debacle of a movie, the girls start to bury Evan with his head sticking out of the dirt, and just as one of the girls is about to smash his head with a stone, she smashes it beside him and starts laughing about how he thought they were actually going to kill him. At this point we hear about how they do this kind of thing a lot and how no one ever refuses them, these sick people spy on loving families and tear their lives apart on a regular basis. We also learn that they weren't actually underage therefore and tension that was built up when it was threatened that he would go to jail were completely fabricated. They then upload his sex video to his facebook and leave him there in the ground. This is where the funny part is, people start commenting about how sick it is that he posted that and he pulls his arm out of the dirt to try to press delete (crazy because the 'delete' and 'like' buttons are right next to each other) and he accidentally clicks like, to which he then lets out an angry yell. Then his family gets home and sees the mess, the son says 'dad had a party.' and the movie ends. That's it, cut to black, the end.
I've probably bored you with this review, but now you know how I felt during the viewing of this movie. 1 Star for this, especially after listening to Eli Roth's interview because he made it seem like he thought the movie was good but you'd have to be delusional to think that. Well guys, thanks for reading my first review, hopefully I get better from here, and don't see this movie if you want to have a good time. It's not even a 'so bad it's funny' watch, trust me.

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As a fan of Keanu reeves i had a high expectation the whole time even when my friends wanted to leave at the last quarter of the movie i stayed and kept thinking:
**************SPOILER ALERT( read it anyway since the movie is bad) ********************* -that Keanu will turn things to his side and expose them but the movie ended with villains escaping. -He carried a knife and tripped and lost it in 1 minute -His wound only abused one time yet he was able to move a lot with open wound without bleeding to death -1st time he called the cops about break and got disconnected: the cops never came -2nd time they break in the alarm system didn't go off -If u see a broken image frame on the floor in a dark room u just never pick it up without looking around and being armed. -his friend come to save him, despite all the warnings his friend leave him tied to the chair and run to scream at the villains until he choke to death - they posted their video on face book and no one gave a sh1t to contact him or come over specially his wife, and that video can be used to track them and get them to jail but they said they've done it many times. - getting tortured with headphone on your head is easily avoided: just shake your head violently.
************** spoiler ends ****************************
the movie had a message to deliver : 'if you are a loving father you're a rapist no matter what if stranger females approach you, you tried to help them and offered shelter food, warm and taxi, then they bath naked in front of you and got u in, slept with you and tied you and raped you > you are the monster' There was no plot from start to end it was villains messing their way in someone else's life and getting away with it, i like to see victims winning but i was disappointed. Moral story: girls are dangerous and nice people are bad ( this is why i hated the movie)
++++ what the movie needed: a closure, and a plot, any random boring plot would do something like ' then he wake up from that bad nightmare'

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