Diagonaldi Very well executed

Fluentiama Perfect cast and a good story

Ketrivie It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

Brennan Camacho Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

Leofwine_draca HOME INVASION is a straight-to-video B-movie thriller that openly copies PANIC ROOM but comes across as far inferior to the David Fincher film. This one sees an ageing Natasha Henstridge playing a mother who is forced to take refuge her own home alongside her child when it is invaded by a bunch of criminals looking for loot. Her only ally is a security operator on the outside, played by a tired Jason Patric in one of those sitting-at-a-desk type roles. Truth be told, this is a typically cheap and overwrought production, with Henstridge failing to impress and the story piling on one cliche after another. I laughed out loud during some of the attempts at more serious moments. The one highlight is the presence of martial arts expert Scott Adkins in the cast, but sadly he's not enough to save the film - and he doesn't even get to fight.

Claudio Carvalho Chloe Paige (Natasha Henstridge) and her stepson Jacob (Liam Dickinson) live in an isolated mansion in an island. Chloe's husband is traveling and she does not know his whereabouts. One stormy night, Chloe is drinking wine with her friend Alice (Johannah Newmarch) when a car arrives and Alice believes they are strangers needing information. When she leaves the house, she is murdered by a masked man. Chloe closes the front door and calls the police and the home security company. However the police can not cross the bridge that was damaged by the criminals. Meanwhile the trio of criminals breaks in Chloe's house. The security agent Mike (Jason Patric) uses the security cameras to advise Chloe where to hide. The trio is looking for a safe and for Chloe while she is hidden with Jacob. Will the police arrive in time to save Chloe and Jacob?"Home Invasion" is a reasonable thriller considering that it is home video. The story is simple and tense but the characters have unreasonable attitudes. Chloe does not use her car to break down the gate of the garage and flee with her stepson. She shoots Heflin but does not take his weapon and stays in the fire line with her stepson. Heflin threatens Chloe to open the safe instead of leaving his skilled partner continue his attempt. The criminal in the truck shoots the police officers in a senseless decision since he was one against a group. In addition, there is an electrical power outage on the exact moment that Chloe and Jacob are opening the gate. My vote is six.Title (Brazil): Not available on Blu-Ray or DVD

FlashCallahan 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.

quincytheodore Right from the door bell, the movie bears an eerie resemblance to Panic Room, a mother and her children trapped in a stormy night with several intruders. This is not a good sign as audience would remember a much more superior title. Granted,"Home Invasion" has a decent choice for location, but nevertheless only used as bland routine of insipid cat-and-mouse game.Chloe (Natasha Henstridge), the woman from Species, is home alone with her son when few burglars with sordid intention come and start blasting. This home invasion might go better if the hide-and-seek struggle was better crafted, but the mother and son duo are simply running about in least spectacular way, while any altercation looks unconvincing to say the least, the fast editing tries to mask it to less effective result.The angle on home security operator, whose only interaction is with phone, is far from compelling. Audience would find it hard to relate to Chloe, let alone the operator who's having a bad day. One of the better parts comes from the setting, which the movie invests for quite a bit in the beginning. Its sense of isolation can be atmospheric, yet the prolonged heist overstays its welcome.The team of invaders is honestly mismatched made for prison. For one, there's Scott Adkins, and he's not roundhouse kicking anyone, although he wears suits on the break in then starts yelling randomly. The others are some shady henchmen wearing full gears and shady woman wearing assassin sleeveless attire. They have carnival masks, which they eventually discarded. It's just too confusingly outlandish to be believable, not to mention they wander around the house for half the runtime.Home Invasion delivers just as the title advertised, although in witless and uninspiring manner, making audience wishes it would leave already like an unwanted guest.