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Knock Knock teams director Eli Roth with actor Keanu Reeves in this home invasion thriller. Loving husband and father Evan Webber (Reeves) is home alone for a weekend recovering from an injury when two girls appear in the dead of night, desperate for his help. Before long, the girls’ ulterior motives come to the surface and they are revealed to be a pair of femme fatales, here inexplicably to wreak havoc on Evan’s cosy life.





One has to feel sorry for Keanu Reeves. After a string of break-out roles, the man’s star power (and indeed, talent) has – with the exception of John Wick – taken a nose dive. For the first half an hour, his character’s confusion could easily be mistaken for boredom, until he completely loses the plot in the final act and resorts to a hysterical, screaming caricature that brings to mind the oft-derided Nicholas Cage in many of his recent appearances (but, for the sake of convenience, picture his turn in the remake of The Wicker Man).