J. Kim Murphy It snuck up on us, but the American remake of a foreign film hardly seems like the totem to failed imagination that it once did.
Being generous, it’s practically becoming a lost art in the age of franchise maintenance. How can an overseas breakthrough be rejiggered into a one-off multiplex programmer?
Blumhouse’s latest genre play “Speak No Evil” — which rips its title, premise and even entire gags from Christian Taldrip’s totally-f’ed-up festival standout from two years ago — is a reminder that the answer is usually pretty easy: End it as a crowd-pleaser, in this case with James McAvoy hulking out after he’s gleefully played with his food for 80 minutes.
As with the original film, writer-director James Watkins‘ remake studies a couple that stretches their belief in the kindness of strangers to absurd proportions.
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