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Review- Breaking In (2018)

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    Being Mary Jane’s Gabrielle Union stars as Shaun, a mother who arrives with her two children to a remote Wisconsin house owned by her recently murdered father. When they arrived, they are attacked by four armed men who plan to steal her father’s ill gotten millions and burn the house to the ground. They hold Shaun’s kids (Ajiona Alexus and Seth Carr) captive and lock Shaun out of the very high-security home. It's left to Shaun to find a way to rescue her kids from the criminals. After seeing the trailer for Breaking In, I knew it was definitely going to be a very predictable popcorn flick, and that was exactly what it was. I wish they proved me wrong with the plot and did something out of the box, but they didn’t. We’ve seen this story a billion times and very few of them get it right, sadly this wasn’t really one of them. It was an average film and if I’m being honest, I probably wouldn’t have seen it if it didn’t star Union. Of course, she delivered in her acting and so did Alexus and Carr. The plot was also a bit empty and I wish they explored the reason for Shaun’s falling out with her dad.
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They were also a lot of plot holes and scenes that were very questionable. When Jasmine uses the vent to get to the other room, on her way back to her brother, one of the bad guys goes to check on her and somehow, she got back into the room before he gets there and even comes out of the toilet. How did Jasmine know where the safe was? How was Shaun able to out smart four bad guys? The bad guys had 90 minutes to get the safe but it felt like they were searching for hours. There was really nothing special about this film and I don’t think it was properly thought out. Unless they just needed an easily forgettable popcorn flick. If that was the case, then they won. It was still entertaining and I loved the fact that the running time wasn't so long.  and Union did a good job but even her acting was not enough to make this a movie worth remembering. 



RATING 4.5/10 
GENRE Thriller 
DIRECTOR James McTeigue
WRITER Ryan Engle
STARRING Gabrielle Union, Billy Burke, Richard Cabral, Ajiona Alexus, Levi Meaden
RUNNING TIME 1h 28m
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