Unseen is a low budget Blumhouse production about a woman who has been kidnapped and manages to escape but loses her much needed glasses in the process. She she winds up Facetiming a random convenience store clerk and having her see for her as she stumbles through the woods, her kidnapper on her tail.

The woman escaping is in Michigan which has a cold, blue tone to the image. The woman in the convenience store is in Florida where there’s a garish neon green tint to everything (as befits an alligator-themed gas station). The film definitely has a sure hand in the set decoration and cinematography.

The flick is barely seventy minutes long and struggles to find ways to fill the time and build suspense. One way it fills the time is by adding completely preposterous roadblocks for the store clerk… maybe call it Florida satire, maybe call it head scratching, but what she goes through was comical while the other gal’s plot is meant to be suspenseful and deadly.

Too bad the flick never quite generates the suspense it’s going for. Partly that’s because the Michigan woman isn’t blind, she’s severely near-sighted. Velma from Scooby Doo would say “Jinkies” at how bad her vision is. It’s overkill, unrealistic and, as a former wearer of THICK glasses (thanks LASIK), it took me out of the picture.

The film has merits with its visual language and they try very hard to make the two location/two main characters thing work. But it’s never the thrilling suspense picture it wants to be. Sometimes it gets close though and I can see it working for some people. Just not for me.

Score: 68