Film Review – Wake Up

RKSS is a Canadian filmmaking duo (comprised of Anouk Whissell and Yoann-Karl Whissell) who made a sharp impression in their debut feature, “Turbo Kid,” which offered sizable retro cinema fun as the helmers attempted to pay tribute to escapism entertainment of the 1980s. RKSS remained in the decade for their follow-up, “Summer of 1984,” exploring a more suspenseful tone in a less sugary movie. Another effort (“We Are Zombies”) came and went without much fanfare, but the team has returned to semi-stable creative ground with “Wake Up,” detailing a war between activists and security inside an IKEA-like store. It’s a B-movie idea played with aggression by RKSS, who look to get fairly violent and somewhat ruthless in the endeavor, and this hostility tends to work for the picture, especially during its most charged moments. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com