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Blink Twice is a glitzy thrill ride that gets lost in the darkness of its own ideas

Zoë Kravitz is cooking with her directorial debut, but it never quite comes together.

Aside from the fact that she has an unusually good memory for faces, there doesn’t seem to be that much out of the ordinary about cater waiter Frida (Naomi Ackie) as Blink Twice opens the night before she and her roommate Jess (Alia Shawkawt) are meant to be working at a big gala. Though there’s a frenzied, rushed quality to Blink Twice ’s opening act, Kravitz and cinematographer Adam Newport-Berra cleverly use that energy to establish the film as one that’s trying to channel the disorienting experience of being pulled into a superstar’s orbit. Everything about the champagne-soaked world of excess that King and his elite friends / employees (Simon Rex, Geena Davis, Haley Joel Osment, Christian Slater, Levon Hawke) exist in is strange to Frida and Jess.

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