KNOCK KNOCK - Manuel Riveiro

 

"Ignore the dark and stormy night, the tinkle of ominous music, and the whole 'directed by Eli Roth' part, and 'Knock Knock' could momentarily pass for a star-powered porno."

 

A.A. Dowd, The Onion AV Club

"'Pan' is a cacophonous assault on the senses, all computerized cinematographic mayhem and deafening noise, and its hurried pace extinguishes any genuine character development, so that newcomer Levi Miller’s Peter comes across as an alternately stout and whiny mamma’s boy, Mara’s Tiger Lily proves a featureless warrior babe (albeit one required to make coy smiles at Hook), and Hedlund’s Hook is a blustery rogue defined by the actor’s aggravating over-enunciation of every single line of dialogue. With John Powell’s score blaring incessantly, and 3D effects augmenting the scenery’s artificiality -- and the actors’ physical detachment from their fantastical surroundings -- the film strikes one discordant note after another along the way to a finale in which Blackbeard attempts to enact a fairy holocaust, and Wright somehow manages to botch the climactic moment when Peter finally masters flying. A clumsy hodgepodge of hackneyed parts, it’s an extravagant misfire aptly summed up by its own early image of a zero-gravity chicken laying an egg that flies right at the viewer’s face."

 

Nick Schager, The Playlist