Title – No One Will Save You (2023) 

Director – Brian Duffield (Spontaneous)

Cast – Kaitlyn Dever

Plot – Social recluse Brynn’s (Dever) quiet and solitary life is interrupted one night when her remote home is invaded by an alien life form, causing her to face her fears and her past traumas if she is too survive the ordeal. 

“There are 1.65 million home invasions a year. This one is different”

Review by Eddie on 13/02/2024

A high concept alien invasion thriller that bravely decided to deliver its 90 minutes worth of material with 5 words of spoken dialogue, Brian Duffield’s Hulu/Disney+ exclusive can’t be accused of doing things by the book but No One Will Save You’s unique delivery and attempt to give audiences a genre effort with a difference doesn’t help in the long run with this well-shot but mostly thrill free sci-fi one that you can safely skip. 

Starring rising star Kaitlyn Dever who here plays the almost entirely mute Brynn who lives a quiet isolated life in her remote house after an early childhood incident left her a shadow of her former self and an outcast from her community, Save You has some meat on its bone when it comes to being something more than just an alien invasion film all about chaos, carnage and set pieces and with Duffield working off a small budget, Save You has to be careful about how it does things but after a promising early set-up and intrigue about why Brynn is the way she is, the film quickly morphs into a more pedestrian affair with the mute delivery bringing on feelings of an early nap rather than excitement. 

Known for his script work on the underrated Love and Monsters and also Lovecraftian horror Underwater, Duffield has shown early signs of promise in his still rising career but much like those efforts, Save You is more promise than delivery in the grand scheme of things and the writer/director is unable to give us any true wow-factor moments over the films 90 minutes with some latter emotionally charged scenes well framed and a interesting ending not enough to make what has come before any more excitable or noteworthy. 

Given one of her greatest chances yet to carry a film, Dever has come along way from her early Justified days and there’s no doubt that she is one of the brightest young stars working today but unlike some of the films similar in delivery to Save You such as A Quiet Place or 10 Cloverfield Lane, there’s not enough for Dever to work with here and there are large chunks of the film that feel like nothing more than filler segments and with some poorly designed CGI and a growing insistence to show us the threats rather than keep them in the shadows makes Duffield’s film a rather forgettable ride. 

In a day and age there these type of high concept, mid-budgeted products are hard to come by, it’s a shame Save You couldn’t have been something more to continue to justify the benefit of these products in a crowded marketplace. 

Final Say – 

There’s some nice individual moments and a brave delivery of familiar material but No One Will Save You can’t be saved from itself as it becomes more of a borefest than a thrillfest, making this home invasion thriller with a sci-fi twist a forgettable and unspectacular event. 

2 rocks out of 5