Christmas Break-In

I wanted to like this, if only for Danny Glover's sake, but I couldn't - it's bad.

'Christmas Break-In' is a borderline 'Home Alone' rip-off, especially with how it sets up the plot - it kinda goes its own way by the end, even it if still misses originality. It also lacks humour and heart, two things it desperately tries to add to the mix - it's barely a Christmas film, too.

Glover is alright, his character is massively forgettable though. Kid actor Cameron Seely tries her best and is likeable, but she's quite wooden with her performance - not helped by the very poor dialogue. The trio of Douglas Spain, Jake Van Wagoner and Denise Richards are awful - Richards slightly better than the other two, not by much though.

A limp effort, pure and simple.

Young Izzy (Cameron Seely) is the unfortunately child who faces constant neglect from her two parents. While her mother (Denise Richards) and father (Sean O'Bryan) get distracted by work, they forget to pick up their daughter from school. Izzy waits around the school unattended and encounters some bandits on the run that take shelter in the school from the blizzard outside.

This would never happen in real life. Even if Izzy wasn't left behind, the school had all its electricity still left on with doors/windows left unlocked. As for the parents.. wow. It wasn't just a once off that they forget about their child, seeing as they mention a few times that they ALWAYS forget about her. Izzy's character would've been better off as an only child, the brothers character offered nothing interesting to the film. He seemed to have a crush on a girl which honestly is the biggest snooze and took no huge impact on the story. Even when he tries to help his sister it's a 20 second moment.

Bless Denis Richards doing B grade Christmas films though

I get that this is a light-hearted movie but I was not entertained at all. The characters are all one-dimensional and cliched. Even the girl's tactics are not believable at all.

How did this make the cut? An example of terrible writing, uninspired story telling and weak acting. It feels like it was pulled together last minute. Danny Glover must have been desperate to star in this. Also why the Home Alone copy cat, do something original. I'm amazed Netflix added this to their collection, worse promote it.

The acting of most the adults on this film is as bad as a crime as the original robbery. The plot is tired and used. I cannot say how bad this film was.