No One Will Save You: Movie Review

Cast: Kaitlin Dever
Director: Brian Duffield

A mix of trauma and the alien invasion / home invasion genre, Brian Duffield's near no dialogue No One Will Save You is a film that scores highly for ambition, even if parts of its CGI seem dated and dodgy.

Dever plays Brynn, a girl who lives alone and is seemingly ostracised by her community. Isolated and with hints of a tragedy in her past, Brynn suddenly finds her world upended when aliens invade her home one night.

In a desperate race for survival, Brynn finds her own community overrun and the possibility that in this case, survival is down to her.

While dialogue is sparse in this film with only a handful of words spoken throughout, No One Will Save You's desire to riff on A Quiet Place is obvious from the start, and its debt to genre fare like The Invaders and Close Encounters of the Third Kind is clearly evident.

Dever makes the most of the visual storytelling elements of the movie, with Duffield's direction settling on the usual genre tropes and occasional jump scares. It does wear a little thin in the run up to the finale but thankfully a clever mechanism and a smart storytelling pace helps No One Will Save You to feel something different and unique for the genre.

Mixing in the elements of tragedy from Brynn's past and piecing it all together in a must-unravel ending makes No One Will Save You a film that's worthy of discussion. Sadly, some of the grey aliens, while a nod to the classic aliens of 80s paranoia, look shoddily executed in the CGI and take away from some of the good work done by the film.

But in moments when the tension's ratcheted up highly, No One Will Save You shines - a reminder that creativity can wield results, and that Dever is a star with mainly facial expressions and full physical commitment giving life to more than just what's playing out in front of her.

No One Will Save You is streaming now on Disney+