worse the more you think about it...

Rating: 5/10 (16 October 2016)

At first i liked it. The idea of 3 cocky burglers exploiting a blind but finding a terrible secret and then turning from the hunters to the hunted seemed nice.
But the more i thought about the whole setup and how the movie staged those events - the more flaws.. deal-breaking flaws popped up.
The most problamatic flaw of the movie is the chemistry between the three protagonists. Or rather - the absence of any. It feels very strange how those 3 fit together, how they seem to be friends (?) or how they trust each other enough to pull off those heists. The movie presents the viewer with some sort of motivation for the female lead to go on those break ins (which is greed/or breaking out of poverty) - but all that is blatantly stereotypical and also needless.
Then there is the actual execution of their big plan to raid this blind mans home. A plan so flawed and idiotic that one has to wonder if those three spend any thought on planning the event.
A little bit of information gathering and intel - which cannot be that hard to come by, considering the nature of the man they attempt to raid, - would have gone very far. Furthermore a neighbourhood that seems perfectly fine with several gunshots fired in the night seems rather special. Gunshots are very loud .. and while i can understand that the sound gets muffled when fired within a big house - quite some shots were fired outside.
To make it short - had they spend even a minimal amount of time scouting the premise - they would have found out that.

the guy lives alone and has no house keeper - that means he must go shopping by himself - meaning that he would be away for quite a long time, leaving the house unattended during the day (you know, when its bright outside)

Not only would they have been surprised by a watchdog, but they could have dealt with the heist easily. That is especially odd, since they seemed to do the other break ins when the owners were out - during daytime. So one has to wonder ... why would they do this ones home at night - while the owner is at home?
Then there is the problem with the blind man. I can understand that he is a tough guy alright. I can also understand that he may move with quite some certainty in his own home. BUT .. his own home is a wreck. What a blind person needs most is to have his all his stuff in its place to be able to navigate securely. Not only is the house way too run down and stuffed full of garbage. But he also moves too fast. We briefly see him rush to around to lock the house down - which he does reasonably fast. But there are scenes where he seems to move from the basement to the upper floor in what feels like an instant.
Well - i could go one and on with plot holes - but the point of it is... the more you think about it the more infuriating the story becomes.
The old guys motivation is creepy and scary enough - and a great foundation - but the protagonists were weak and the whole setup rather lame.
I would give that movie a 5/10 for being just about average. It is not a great disappointment - but it certainly is not a breathtaking revelation.