Review: “Knock at the Cabin”
M. Knight Shyamalan burst onto the scene way back with The Sixth Sense and ever since it feels like his movies have been hit or miss and widely polarizing. Some fans of his love his style, but what is undeniable is that he has a great eye for directing and bringing the best out of his actors. Knock at the Cabin continues to showcase this as Shyamalan is great at capturing beautiful shots as well as getting the best from his actors in this film. Shyamalan adapted this film from the novel titled, The Cabin at the End of the World, oddly changing the name of the film in the process. Knock at the Cabin functions similarly to Shyamalan’s previous foray into an apocalypse-like film in “The Happening” but slightly better and not nearly as goofy. It also helps prove that maybe Shyamalan should stay away from making any kind of apocalypse film.
The plot follows a family, Eric (Jonathan Groff) and Andrew (Ben Aldridge) with their young adopted daughter Wen (Kristen Cui) on a vacation at a remote cabin in the woods. Their serene vacation is interrupted when four imposing strangers carrying weapons show up holding them hostage and forcing them to make an impossible choice to avert the end of humanity. The family becomes confused, scared and is cut off from the world, unable to confirm whether or not the strangers are telling the truth and have to decide what they believe is real and isn’t.
