See for Me

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I gave 2 stars for the veteran. The rest of the movie was insufferable and I only kept watching to see if the lead got killed. Even the thieves were more likeable, especially the poor guy with the drill. I would rather watch a movie about him.

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The main character is totally unlikable and I wanted her to die. In fact I wish she skied into a tree and dropped dead. She had no redeeming qualities at all.

See For Me In the spirit of Wait Until Dark with Audrey Hepburn or last years Don't Breath 2 we have a thriller about a blind person and a home invasion. This movie went for a technology spin with iPhones and gizmos. Here we have a very angry teenager recently blind and struggling with her disability. To make her so angry with just about everyone and everything and so resent any help makes her so unlikeable we have little sympathy for her. If she spoke to me like that I would walk away as I have a zero tolerance to being bullied. The idea that you would employ a blind cat-sitter in an unknown house in the middle of nowhere is stretching credulity. Come the bad guys it got much better, there remained plots holes the size found in Emmental cheese but for a TV movie it packed a suspenseful punch. Overall this was a 5 outta 10, meaning it vaguely amused me while I watched it but really it sucked and I hated the female empowerment issues where every man in the movie was portrayed as evil.

The premise is one that could have been interesting but I found myself not even rooting for our main "protagonist". The fact that she was a top skier is only relevant is having people find out that she's actually blind but her character is incredibly unlikeable. Why should I root for the girl who takes petty jobs to steal from home owners and is bitter about being blind? She gets the cop who comes to help killed, is somehow able to remember the layout to this house when her phone dies and navigate with no issue, and then steals the money at the end to then go into her Paralympic career. A massively unlikeable character that would have been better off getting shot with the rest of them.

Greetings again from the darkness. For those of us who enjoy the burst of adrenaline provided by thrillers, the premise of a blind person in peril is something we've seen a few other times, including WAIT UNTIL DARK (1967) with Audrey Hepburn, SEE NO EVIL (1971) with Mia Farrow, BLINK (1993), and the more recent DON'T BREATHE (2016, 2021) series with Stephen Lang. Director Randall Okita, working from a screenplay by Adam Yorke and Tommy Gushue, manages to use modern technology to provide a twist to a familiar set-up. When we first see Sophie (the feature film debut of Skyler Davenport), she's getting caught by her mom sneaking out of the house. Now this wouldn't be that unusual were it not for the fact that Sophie is blind ... a degenerative disease robbing her of her dream of making the Olympic ski team. She is independent to the point of stubborn, and has found a way to supplement her house/cat-sitting gigs with the help of her only friend Cam (Keaton Kaplan). Homeowner Debra (Laura Vandervoot) greets her at the sprawling, snow-covered remote mansion Sophie has been hired to 'watch'. Of course we know where this is headed, because who is more vulnerable than a blind girl alone in the house (with a cat)? The twist here is an app recommended by Sophie's mom. It's called "See For Me" and it's a way for someone to assist a blind person by using the smart phone camera. Sophie is hooked up with Kelly (Jessica Parker Kennedy, "Black Sail"), a military veteran whose expertise at video game invasions will come in handy. Kelly is direct and efficient in her instructions to Sophie - from helping her jiggle open a sliding glass door to evading the three men who break into the house while she's asleep. The cat and mouse between Sophie and the intruders provides the necessary tension, and the main twists involve Kelly on the app and Sophie as a tough-to-like person. This is no angelic type that you'd like to hug and protect, in fact, she's often abrasive to the point of rude. But most importantly, she's tough and strong-minded. The interaction between Sophie and Kelly is the most interesting, and there's also a sequence with a police officer that plays like a chain of events that could happen. Kim Coates adds a nice touch in his role ... you might recall him as the drifter in WATERWORLD (1995). By opening the film with "Introducing Skyler Davenport", we know right away who the film belongs to. Skyler is a non-binary actor whose adult-onset vision impairment make the performance that much more impressive. Skyler is attempting to transition from a successful voice acting career into an on screen one, and this is a terrific start. We do wish the film had taken a few more risks, rather than sticking with some of the old stand-bys. The opportunities were there, but the punches weren't thrown. Still, for a January thriller, director Okita's film holds its own. In select theaters and On Demand beginning January 7, 2022.