Overview: A group of thieves break into the luxurious, secluded mansion Sophie is house-sitting. Sophie, a visually impaired former skier, must rely on Kelly, an army veteran living across the country, to help her fight back.

Blu-ray Verdict: When blind former skier Sophie accepts a last minute house-sitting job in a secluded mansion, she awakes in the middle of the night to find the house under invasion by a group of thieves seeking a hidden safe.

Her only means of defense: a new app called “See For Me”, which matches her with a volunteer across the country who uses Sophie’s cell phone to see on her behalf.

Stubbornly independent, Sophie is reluctant to accept help until she is connected to Kelly, an army veteran who spends her days playing first person shooter games.

As the game of cat-and-mouse with the intruders escalates, Sophie is forced to learn that if she’s going to survive the night, she’ll need to take all the help she can get.

Writers Adam Yorke and Tommy Gushue have taken the basic plot of the classic Audrey Hepburn Wait Until Dark and upgraded its technology. Blind and being stalked by violent criminals? Don’t worry, there’s an app for that.

Sophie Scott (Skyler Davenport) was a promising skier until she lost her sight to a rare disease. Now she combines house sitting and larceny because nobody would suspect the poor blind girl, as they say (somewhere).

Anyway, her current assignment house/cat sitting for a very rich Debra looks to be all about stealing an expensive bottle of wine or two. In truth, it’s a nice touch making the disabled heroine something other than a perfect angel that everyone wants to love and pity.

But what See For Me does it take this plot point a little bit too far, for my liking, as our lead, blind character exhibits many traits of, well, not being all that nice herself; and at times, more so than the criminals who have just broken in.

However, it turns out that is a magnificent trait to have in these particular circumstances as it comes in rather handy as the craziness unfolds around her.

Personally, and I’ve now watched this movie twice in three days, I have to say I am rather impressed by Skyler Davenport, our blind lead actress in the film who, it turns out, is actually legally blind in real life.

For this most definitely adds to the believably of her actions as a blind person stumbling around, knocking things over, and just acting blindly lost, for Davenport is very skilled at her craft here.

Sure, home invasion stories are a staple of the horror and thriller genres and so are a well-trodden territory, but when handled well, much like See For Me, they still offer an effective avenue for tension, pressure, and terror.

In closing, See For Me may not be anything new to the genre, may not even make you love the lead character enough to care (due to everything aforementioned about her), but what it does do is deliver a tight, impactful, efficient thriller, one with enough unique hooks and unexpected turns to set it (for the most part) apart from the pack.

Complete with that hook line of a rather unique twist, the result is a quick, edgy, old-school thriller that really works on most all thriller levels. A unique offering that fully deserves all the praise that it is receiving, albeit that most of it is deservedly aimed at the super talented Skyler Davenport. [RF] This is a Widescreen Presentation (2.39:1) enhanced for 16x9 TVs.

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