This movie will make you think twice before accepting an invite to a billionaire’s private island.

Blink Twice follows Frida, a nail artist and cocktail waitress who gets invited to tech mogul Slater King’s exclusive island retreat. Slater seems charming enough when he extends the invitation and once Frida and her friend Jess arrive with a group of other women, everything looks like paradise — luxury accommodations, designer gift bags, endless parties.

Their phones are confiscated under the guise of living in the moment. Easy enough to overlook when the champagne is flowing.

But Jess starts noticing something is wrong. She’s experiencing memory lapses, growing paranoid, and wants to leave. When she tries to warn Frida, Frida dismisses her — choosing to trust a man she just met over her friend’s instincts.

Then one day Frida realizes she can’t remember where Jess is. Nobody can. Nobody remembers her being there at all.

What Frida and another guest Sarah eventually uncover is the nightmare beneath the paradise — the luxury perfume the women have been using contains a memory erasing flower extract. The men have been systematically assaulting the women every night and wiping their memories clean each morning. Jess was killed because a snake bite gave her venom that acted as an antidote. She couldn’t forget. So she became a threat.

When Frida and the other women use snake venom to restore their own memories, they realize they’ve been trapped in a cycle of trauma and amnesia — and that Frida herself has been to this island before.

What follows is one of the most satisfying third acts in recent memory. The women, now fully awake and furious, fight back. Frida survives, uses the memory erasing perfume on Slater himself, marries him, and takes control of his entire empire while he exists in a blank zombie-like state.

Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut is a brutal and precise examination of how powerful men (and sometimes women) isolate, abuse and gaslight women — and how enablers participate through willful blindness. The film asks a question it refuses to answer cleanly: should victims seek justice or revenge? And it’s smart enough to know those aren’t always different things.

Which is what makes the ending so layered — and so unsettling.

When Frida uses the memory erasing venom on Slater, marries him, and takes over his empire, it reads at first like the ultimate revenge fantasy. Justice served on her own terms. But sit with it for a moment and something else emerges. She doesn’t dismantle the system. She steps into it. She becomes the one with the island, the power, the control — and Slater becomes the blank, compliant one.

The film might be asking whether true justice was ever really possible, or whether the lure of power is simply too great. Because what Frida ultimately chooses isn’t freedom — it’s the same structure, just with her at the top.

That’s a harder conversation than most revenge thrillers are willing to have. Victims becoming the very thing that harmed them isn’t a new story. But Blink Twice frames it without judgment and without resolution — and that’s what makes it linger.

Streaming now on MGM+ & Prime Video and definitely worth the watch.