Movie review.

Rating: 8/10 (4 October 2016)

The cast of Don't Breathe does not contain any superstars with exception of the forever young Stephen Lang (Avatar, Jarhead 2 and Public Enemies). Then you have 3 relatively young and fresh actor's in Jane Levy (Rocky), Dylan Minnette (Alex) and Daniel Zovatto (Money). So considering all the rookie actors and one medium well known man the movie has not been expected to hit the billboard for movies in 2016. A group of 3 young criminals have discovered a house that could be their very last robbery that would send them off to sunny California. The only thing that stand between the young bunch and the Golden State is a blind Navy Seal veteran. How hard can it be to steal money from a blind man?
Rocky is a bad girl, but one can easily sympathize with her because of her abusive mother and family background. She is smart and is dreaming to escape far away from the shantytown Detroit have become. Then there is Alex, an expert on disarming alarms and being the careful kid in the bunch. Last person is Money. He is the aggressive douchebag with a "Fuck you" attitude. They all have their differences, but this makes them also fit together because they all have their expertise in their area of crime. Fede Alvarez, the director of the movie has set up a very typical gang and going with the typical gang
You quickly see that Don't Breathe is not your typical horror movie. How can a robbery of a blind man be scary? That is where Fede Alvarez have done a good job with the plot and the cinematography. The war veteran ends up being a very capable man having sharp senses and does not seem affected at all being completely blind. What makes this movie so scary is how the cinematography is set up. During the robbery which takes place in the middle of the night the cameras is close up on the actors giving us a scary night vision and the scared expression of the kids and also the anger showed by the blind war veteran. There are also scenes that makes you jump because the blind man suddenly comes up from nowhere and the way Alvarez have directed it, it makes us feel like we are the teenagers in the dark.
The fact that the movie is 1 hour and 28 minutes makes it a "short" and intense movie. When you look at the plot itself it seems like your regular scary movie and expecting all the kids to die. But Alvarez has created a very well-round horror movie that makes the audience jump, it makes the audience feel like they are in the house and makes the audience feel that all they want to do is simply get the hell out of there. And if you have seen some horror movies before you know that there is always a big secret that affects your whole perspective. Fede Alvarez created a big dark secret that makes you question ethics and morals of what actions a sane person could do. So you wonder how hard it could be to steal from a blind man? Then I suggest you go to see Don't Breathe.