Home Invasion (2016)

The setup and beginning are quite interesting as not much is being revealed. Although the 6 month flashback right after a decent opening is the first downer in a long series in this flick.The characters are unbelievable naive or overly arrogant and stupid. The only believable guy is the bank robber Esther.The home security system and company are a joke. A multi-million dollar home (more a castle) with probably a few dozen rooms and the most expensive smart home rigging installed and they can't do better than this? I expected some really good applications of what such a setting could offer to hide, set traps, escape, counter-attack or do anything to play mind tricks in the gangsters - but all they could do was hacking into the stereo system (well...don't bother) and make some noise for a moment. In the end the security company does very little to save the protagonists, everything that made a difference was done without the aid of the mike guy, who himself was pretty lost all the time.The road block and the time it took the police to reach a crime scene are so constructed - no one would build such a villa in a remote backwater place. Someone who could buy such a house and stuff would also assign at least one security guard to the building - who would have died first, but OK.All in all the story and characters are plain and lifeless, everything feels very constructed and there is never any real suspense building up.Not even worth watching on a rainy Sunday evening with nothing to do.

Actually i have never seen a movie like this, worst EVER!. waste of time i think if i had a beer in graveyard it would be much useful, i mean how can his friend have an safe jacket and the boss doesn't? is it about home security commercial, i hope the actors and the director and the writer dies for wasting my time plus a lot of mistakes come on we are in 2016 and we still have common mistakes? if she rode the car out of the garage she could've break through! and that kid ran out for no reason without any warning how possibly a kid freaked out do this, maybe had some experiences before... what is it in that safe? who is that women who is that guy who stood for an army cause the boss said ï will make it worth your while? oh my god i feel the writer is mocking the audience ..or the watchers..

When a wealthy woman and her stepson are targeted by a expert thieves in their remote mansion, her only form of help comes from a call with a security systems specialist, whom thirty years prior was a boy who may have been lost.But as the intruders become increasingly hostile and the connection weakens, will she trust him to be her eyes and navigate her to avoid the criminals.....I always thought home invasion films should be a lot of fun shouldn't they? Family goes on holiday, leaves a member and they scream when applying aftershaves and set booby traps.Or they have Ethan Hawke in them with weird people with smiles and a sub context damning the American class.....Well this is neither of those, it's just an atypical thriller along the lines of Trespass but without the subplot of having one of the criminals be a paranoid schizophrenic.Instead you have the psychotic female who just wants to kill everyone and be done with it, you have the safecracker with the heart of gold, and then you have the against type Scott Adkins.I think Adkins is brilliant in his suitable genre, kicking butt and harking back to those straight the video action movies that were released in the late eighties/early nineties, but here he's trying to pass as an intellectual mastermind because he wears a suit and speaks clear and concisely.........he doesn't convince.So we are left with Jason Patric looking like he's had a particularly heavy night before, guiding Natasha Henstrige, looking like she's had a few particularly heavy meals around the house avoiding the criminals who spend the movie staying in the same room.It's not particularly good, but it's not bothersome either. The cast, Akins aside play their respective parts well, and it throws in some funny clichés, such as a lightning bolt cutting out the power when they needed it the most.Throw in the stupidest 'fool the criminal' ending, and you have another mundane thriller starring people who were a bit famous twenty years ago.

This is the most incredibly badly acted, slow moving, poorly scripted, abysmally directed drive I have ever had the misfortune to watch.It would not even be good enough to rate as a B movie it is that bad.I find it hard to understand why anyone would rate this higher than 1 and this is happening more and more often that reviewers are giving completely false reviews.I cannot find one redeeming quality in this film, there not even as much as 10 seconds of even mediocre acting in the whole film. The story line is fairly standard and may have been worth watching if the actors had any ability at all. Please, I implore you, do not waste your life.