Never Let Go is pretty much like director Alexandre Aja’s previous horror films, The Hills Have Eyes, his 2007 remake not the original and Crawl (2019) whilst enjoyable have hardly stood the test of time to become classics of the horror genre. You can pretty much say the same about his latest, Never Let Go. Enjoyable to hardly memorable.
Set after the world has fallen apart and evil has infected humanity Halle Berry and her two sons protect themselves by staying in a remote cabin where it seems the evil cannot enter. In order to survive they, if they have to leave the cabin for any reason, must tether themselves to a rope so that they are still connected to the cabin and its protective powers. One touch from the infected if they’re not connected to the rope can turn them.
Never Let Go plays out like a three act play. The first act is the introduction, the second act keeps you guessing as to what is really going on, is everything only in Berry’s characters head or is it in fact real. Aja does well do build up the tension but once the reveal is made it starts to fall apart story wise.
Berry and the two boys (Percy Daggs and Anthony B. Jenkins) are all great, and it has its scary moments, but, like the directors other work, you can’t get away from the feeling that it’s just a B grade horror film that won’t last long in the memory.
