The King of Twists turns a Taylor Swift-inspired concert into a tense game of cat and mouse involving a serial killer, a pop star, and some tingly thrills. It’s his best in years.
Suspension of disbelief is an absolute must with this serpentine thriller about a dad and daughter’s trip to a concert that transforms into something far more deadly, and some of its conveniences are bound to elicit eye rolls and exasperated guffaws. As a pulpy game of cat-and-mouse, however, it provides enough thrills to compensate for its illogicalities, and in Josh Harnett, it boasts a star adept at locating the fiendishness in fatherhood.
After making their way to their fantastic floor seats , Cooper retreats to a bathroom stall where, on his phone, he views a live video feed of a twentysomething man who’s chained to a metal pole in a dingy basement. If this footage doesn’t out Cooper as a malevolent psycho, the look of fascination and malice on his face does the trick. Once he’s returned to Riley, however, Cooper segues effortlessly back into dorky dad mode—a chameleonic trick that’s clearly the reason he’s yet to be caught.
More worrisome, the entrances are blocked by heavily armed SWAT members and cops appear to be lurking behind every off-limits door. As he fretfully tries to assess these circumstances, Cooper is distracted by Riley’s enthusiasm as well as the mother of a girl who’s hurt Riley in some unspecified previous spat. Cooper’s curt treatment of this woman is another hint about his inner scariness, not to mention a wish-fulfillment delight for any parent of a young girl.
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