Run, Hide, Fight (2020 movie)

Category: school-shooter action drama 

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Before I get in to the meat of my review of Run, Hide, Fight, I'm going to address the political elephant in the room:

I've noticed that this movie has been dragged a lot on social media, and almost every review of this film I've seen not only makes mentions the fact it is a Daily Wire film, but views the movie in that reference frame.

So with that, I am going to preface this review with a couple of notes:

1. Me being an Australian, as much as I try, I will be fairly unfamiliar with some of the cultural nuances that were presented.

2. This review will be apolitical - I will treat this movie as if it were produced by The Daily Wire, by Disney, by some kids in a theatre with a shaky handicam - it doesn't matter!

And here lies an inconvenient fact - this film was NOT produced by The Daily Wire. The Daily Wire only picked up the North American distribution rights (which may explain why I had to change my VPN settings to be able to get it), and they presented the film as a big deal by interviewing the director, actors, safety experts, etc - but they didn't make this movie  - they merely just made it a big deal!

Knock At The Cabin (2023 film)

Category: Pre-apocalypse hostage thriller.

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I watched this as soon as I saw it in my streaming service because I really wanted to see if Dave Bautista, former pro-wrestler and MMA fighter, had acting chops - and the verdict is yes, the man can act. And if it wasn't for his hulking size and numerous tatts, you almost wouldn't know he was a wrestler in a previous life.

Knock At The Cabin tells the story of a gay couple with an adopted Chinese daughter holidaying at a lakeside cabin who are then held hostage by a group of four (one of them being Big Dave, another being Ron Weasley from Harry Potter) stating that one of the family of three has to willingly be killed in order to avert the coming apocalypse.

The drama builds as each member of the group of four is killed ritually, followed by live news reports of sudden disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis and planes falling out of the sky, all the while Eric and Andrew fight their belief and disbelief respectively as well as trying to protect their young daughter from the horror on display.