See for Me (2022)

See for Me takes a familiar home-invasion setup and electrifies it with a smart, modern twist: the entire night hinges on a video-call app and the fragile lifeline between a blind cat-sitter and a stranger who can see what she can’t. Randall Okita keeps the tension wound tight and moving, turning rooms, hallways, and dead phone batteries into pulse-quickening obstacles, while Skyler Davenport anchors it all with a performance that’s fierce, funny in the right places, and deeply human. The vibe is lean, nasty, and nerve-jangling rather than gory—more about split-second choices and creeping dread than spectacle—and it delivers enough turns to make you feel like the movie is always one step ahead. If relentless peril isn’t your idea of a good time, steer clear, but if you want a brisk thriller with an ingenious hook and real stakes, this one earns your attention.

See for Me wants to be a slick, high-concept home-invasion thriller that flips the usual survival template by making a blind protagonist’s phone connection to a sighted stranger the key to staying alive. When it’s working, the setup is genuinely tense and Skyler Davenport sells the vulnerability and grit, with a few clever moments that make you lean in. The problem is the movie often falls back on familiar genre beats and asks you to swallow some iffy logic and convenience, which can deflate the suspense if you like your thrillers airtight. If you’re happy with a fast, contained cat-and-mouse ride and can forgive contrivances, it’ll do the job; if you want fresh twists or realism that holds up under scrutiny, this may feel like a great idea that doesn’t fully cash in.