The next film of the 4F is once again on Netflix. It is produced by Sam Raimi and is another tense thriller with a fun hook. It was called Don’t Move and it was a surprisingly entertaining film.

According to IMDB, “The grieving Iris (Kelsey Asbille) wakes up early in the morning and goes to the memorial in the park where her beloved son Mateo died falling off a cliff. She is thinking in committing suicide jumping off the same cliff when the young man Richard (Finn Wittrock) dissuades her. She returns to the parking lot with Richard, and he kidnaps her. He injects a substance that will shut down her body in twenty minutes, but she succeeds in forcing him to crash his car into a tree and to flee to a river.”

I was impressed with how this film was able to build as much anxiety in so many different situations considering the main protagonist was unable to move, speak or do much of anything. I guess it was lucky that this substance she was injected by did not stop the muscles that were required for Iris to breathe, even though it basically shut down everything else. Minor gripe I guess. You have to ignore certain details for this movie to work.

However, if you can get past some of the logic leaps here, Don’t Move makes for a decent thriller with a villain worth hating. This villain, played by Finn Wittrock, does a good job of portraying this monstrous person who has a secret life. I would have liked to have known more about his background with his wife and daughter. How did the mysterious Chloe fit in?

Either way, there is enough good work here to recommend this as a fun, leisurely Netflix watch. It may not hold up to a ton of scrutiny, but it is a fun “watch it on the couch” flick.

3.2 stars