The first sign of cheap in a movie is filler of a long car drive to open up, and filmed from various angles. Second, another home invasion w/female & kids (so overdone). The usual lots of bad decisions to prolong the agony, and fill film time. Predictable female vacillates between being weak and being superwoman. Predictable baddies get what's coming to them in sequence, and predictably one resurfaces as not dead yet. Predictably visitors come to the door, and of course meet the intruders - bad idea. Really predictable they can run into the woods where being found would be nearly impossible, but instead they head for the car where, predictably, they fumble for keys and car won't start. Zzzzzz. On a positive note, the red food coloring corn syrup for blood made me hungry.
Breaking In
2018
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller
Breaking In
2018
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller
Plot summary
After her father Isaac's murder, Shaun Russell travels to the house she grew up in with her two children, daughter Jasmine and son Glover. Shaun intends to settle her father's estate and sell the remotely-located house, which has multiple security features, including a hand-held remote monitor. The security system is off-line at their arrival, but is soon reactivated by Jasmine. Unknown to the family, four criminals - Peter, Sam, Duncan, and their leader Eddie - are already in the house. Jasmine and Glover are taken hostage while Shaun is outside. Peter chases Shaun into the woods, where she manages to knock him unconscious. She leaves him bound and gagged, and uses the intercom to call the house. Eddie tells her they only came for the safe and the $4 million they believe is inside; Isaac was under investigation and Sam had learned that he liquidated his assets. The crew has only 90 minutes from when they cut the phone line before the security company will contact police, so they want to find it and leave quickly. Concealed in the trees, Shaun sees Maggie, the Realtor, arrive with paperwork for the house sale. Eddie greets her at the door, explaining Shaun had gone into town briefly, and invites her in. Maggie notices Shaun's purse on the table behind Eddie and declines. As Maggie is leaving, Duncan attacks and slits her throat, which upsets Eddie, as it means Shaun won't be as controllable..
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Overly Predictable
so many whys
This film is filled with so many stupid choices. Like why did the criminals have to kill the house owner to rob the house. His daughter, Shaun, says he doesn't even come out to the house any more, he stays at his home in town. So logically, the criminals don't need to kill him to rob the house. Then on the weekend they decide to break in and find Shaun and her 2 kids there, why not wait till Monday when they are gone, then rob the place. They had plenty of opportunity to rob the house with no one there. And why do the robbers stick around after getting the money. Just leave. And why does Shaun have the fighting capabilities of a navy seal. Where did she get her "training?" And why doesn't Shaun get her phone she left outside the garage, it didn't appear to be broken? And when the daughter escapes the locked room to look for her phone in the other bedroom, why does she stop looking once finding her mom? If the phone is in that room, they both should have been looking every where. And the robbers, say they got 90 minutes to get the phone lines back on, or the security company will call the police. Well it certainly seemed like way more than 90 minutes went by during this cat and mouse game. So, why no police?
FINAL VERDICT: Not good, the whole story is just preposterous.
middling thriller
Shaun Russell (Gabrielle Union) inherits a well-secured estate from her estranged late father. She intends to sell the remote home and has brought her two kids with her. Eddie (Billy Burke) leads a home invasion crew and takes her kids captive. There is a rumored safe holding a secret loot.
This is more TV than theatrical. There is some unexpected brutal violence but it's also somewhat unrealistic. This is better than a standard TV B-movie but it struggles to be theatrical. It's operating somewhere in the middle. It's middling.