Home Sweet Home (2013)

Must See Movie...

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

I'm disappointed that I watched this film. The characters are flat. There's no sympathy generated for the protagonists. The antagonist has no motive, no character, no redeeming qualities. In the end, I was hoping everyone would end up dead.The only redeeming feature of the film is the soundtrack because of the blues of Big Bill Broonzy. In the end I was listening to the music and playing a video game because the film couldn't hold my attention any longer.Spoilers start here ------------------------>There was so much potential for this film to go somewhere with the conflict between the husband and mother-in-law or the husband and wife, but it fell flat. The story is contrived. A married couple have been picked up and dropped into a house in the countryside. They have a kid, but conveniently enough the kid is at the grandparents' house for the evening.We hear a voice message from the sheriff following up on a strange trespasser at the beginning of the film. Instead of telling us, the writer would have done better to show us. Give us a day or two with the couple before bringing them home from a date and killing them for 40 minutes. Let us see them having an argument, having sex, laughing, or sleeping or doing something that normal people do.I'm not sure what role the child played in the film. It wasn't handled in a way that made me as a viewer say, "Hey, wait, don't make the baby an orphan."I feel that the movie is billed as being about a couple, but it's not about them. It's really about the killer. We see his preparation, his voyeurism, and in the end his switch from psychotic killer to wounded small town sheriff here to save the day. Unfortunately, what we don't see is personality in any form. Is he a sociopath? Is he married? Is he an only child? Did he start fires and wet the bed as a kid? There are ways to tell a story without having to increase the cast (read cost) of production. I just wish there'd been more. This is a decent flash fiction story that could be told in 500 words or less, but it just didn't make it for a movie this long.

OK, no one is waiting for this kind of movie to win an Oscar...Thst's not the idea...but...man...give me a break...this is boring to the bone... First of all, "home invasion" script was made and remade lots and lots of times, with some great results...this one is boring, doll...good for those who have trouble sleeping at night...Everything is stupid...the plot, the killer (there's no logic for the cop being the killer...)...there's no history, no character development... There0s only a psycho, who happens to be the cop, that seals every window in the house, and tortures psychologically and physically the young couple... No reason...only because he wanted to... Complete waste of time...

your not gonna like this review...this movie is completely and utterly ridiculous. im just continuing to watch it out of self torture.here are some various stupid things that happen...silent alarm gets tripped so a security calls round, sees all the lights on, knocks and calls out 15 times, no answer, rings the phone, no answer. OK, have a nice night see ya. i mean ffs.there's a pistol in a safe on the top floor, but no it cant be that easy. it has to have a trigger lock. but it still cant be that easy, she has to sneak all the way down 2 staircases to get the key, which she instantly drops and so has to run and hide without picking it up. but then after some time she actually picks the key up so finally she has the gun and trigger lock key. slam dunk right? run upstairs gun in hand and blow the guy away. nope, she has to run upstairs without unlocking the trigger lock, and yep you guessed it, runs straight into him and gets the still trigger locked gun knocked out of her hand. she then runs upstairs and pushes a small dresser in front of a door but he is unable to even budge it??and when she eventually shoots him in the friggin neck, he goes down and is nearly dead. but comes back to life and gets better and better, and even manages to stumble all his proper clothes back on and make a phone call? worse case of an actor acting shot I've ever seen.

Let me say first off that I did think the movie was A solid little home invasion thriller. However the direction style is extremely contrived. What you have here is a director that wants to show us just how good he can be but in truth the film looks and feels like someone rented Halloween and The Shining and basically said "Hey, I could do that." (I mean come on,that ominous shot of the front door before the couple arrive home is just so Kubrick that it comes off a little hacky) What's sad is that just minutes into the film you can tell that the writer and director are one in the same because if it wasn't then either a few of his brutally long and over indulgent shots or some of the inept dialogue would have been left on the floor(seriously how bad were those phone messages). The acting is on par with the budget, with some lines tasting like cardboard and others doing just enough to move us along at a grueling, not suspenseful, irregular pace. The slight twist at the end was OK but honestly, all the best things about this film have been done before and much better. Carpenter and his generation are sometimes accused of going too Hitchcock and if that's true then this film maker proves that when you make a copy of a copy ..it's never as bright as the copy.