This is a good horror but it could have been a masterpiece if the writer had just had some more guts...
Kids break into a mans house to rob him and are soon faced with the reality that they'll have to choose between the money and survival... do they have to choose between the two at the end? No, the survivor gets the money...
The "bad guy" has his house broken into, and so defends himself. Does the movie have the guts to pose the question: is he right to do so? Are the kids the aggressors, and perhaps they deserve what happens? No, because the tacky writing gives us a side story where he is nothing but a monster and so we aren't allowed to empathise with him.
With a few tweaks this could have been a morally ambiguous deeply philosophical study into human survivalism, as well as a deeply tense thriller. Instead we just get the thriller part... which is fine, but it could have been so much more.
Kids break into a mans house to rob him and are soon faced with the reality that they'll have to choose between the money and survival... do they have to choose between the two at the end? No, the survivor gets the money...
The "bad guy" has his house broken into, and so defends himself. Does the movie have the guts to pose the question: is he right to do so? Are the kids the aggressors, and perhaps they deserve what happens? No, because the tacky writing gives us a side story where he is nothing but a monster and so we aren't allowed to empathise with him.
With a few tweaks this could have been a morally ambiguous deeply philosophical study into human survivalism, as well as a deeply tense thriller. Instead we just get the thriller part... which is fine, but it could have been so much more.