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The Speak No Evil Remake’s Ending Is a Cowardly Cop-out
Speak No Evil is meant to be a sick joke, and it doesn’t work without the punch line.
Even in the pantheon of bleak endings — Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Oldboy, The Mist — 2022’s Speak No Evil stands out, offering a nauseating descent into hell that turns a darkly funny social satire into an endurance test. The set-up is the same: Here, it’s American expats Ben (Scoot McNairy), Louise (Mackenzie Davis), and Agnes (Alix West Lefler) meeting British family Paddy (James McAvoy), Ciara (Aisling Franciosi), and Ant (Dan Hough) on a Tuscan vacation. Most of the time, a close do-over of a recent foreign film is designed to appeal to U.S. viewers who won’t read subtitles; in this case, the original Speak No Evil is almost all in English, making its American doppelganger feel extra superfluous.
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