Don't Move

Brian Netto and Adam Schindler’s gimmicky nail-biter is intense and creative enough to quicken your heartbeat and make you wonder if you’d be clever enough to survive in the same situation.

Don’t Move’s protagonist may be rendered inert, but the film retains just enough energy and menace to spare.

Pacy thrills are doled out in a solid Sam Raimi-approved pulse-raiser with a few nifty ideas up its sleeve. Shall we try ‘Don’t Smell’ next?

The film is at its best when words are secondary to action.

When I say that Don’t Move is the modern equivalent of a Corman movie, that might make it sound more trashy or exotic than it really is. It’s not some future cult classic. But it is an expedient, efficient piece of filmmaking that does exactly what it needs to do, no more and no less, to exploit one great idea — the terror of being trapped in your own body, unable to move or speak.

Don’t Move is a tense but ultimately forgettable experience that will likely leave you — much like its protagonist — staring tiredly, and blankly ahead.

This film is simply a simulation of the genre beats you expect in a story about a man kidnapping a woman in the woods. The cloying setup also leaves much to be desired, as does the anti-climatic ending

It is true that the film has details that will be quite familiar to us. What it has in its defence is that it keeps the viewer in suspense for 90 minutes, in a functional way. For a weekend afternoon, with no other aspirations.

Pretty well conceived and implemented, its obviously a kind of stupid high brain concept, but remains effective.

Novel-enough premise with a promising start...poor followthrough. But at least it didnt feel too woke, except perhaps the obnoxious ending song. For a film that wants to be above a bad slasher flick, there are just too many dumb behaviors by intelligent characters who would never behave the way they do. The woman receives multiple lifelines but unfortunately they're all just too dumb to realize the incredibly bizarre situation should be treated as such. Spoiler alert, the guy in the woods goes into his house to call the cops, but then later on has not yet called the cops and has to do so again without ever explaining why they aren't already there. Don't let Sam Raimis name trick you into thinking this will be **** acting is decent as is the direction, but the writing becomes so thin and unbelievable it might as well be any bad slasher flick in the woods...except it is broad daylight.

one of those movies that only exists if every character makes the dumbest decision every time

Decent performances by the leads are forgotten due to the lifeless, bland story that does nothing to keep you interested.