Enough badassery for everyone!

Rating: 9/10 (27 October 2016)

I'll be honest, I was uber stoked when I first saw Stephen Lang and his normal badassery on the trailer for Don't Breathe, however I remained skeptical about the full movie, because the story has been done a ton of times and a tun more after the first ones. Fede Alvarez and the cast all worked some seriously impressive magic to not only make me feel silly about my initial assumption, but to go hard as they managed to work that same magic throughout the full 128 minutes
Not only did the home invaders(Levy, Minnette, and Zovatto) all do impeccable jobs at actually portraying that they were being terrorized, Stephen Lang blew my mind with his role as he transformed into a seemingly innocent blind man who just so happened to end up becoming the target of a robbery at the hands of three hoodlums, into a seriously bad ass butt kicking blind man that as it turns out might end up being the source of a much bigger problem, himself! The movie is exactly what one would expect coming from a director/writer who has probably been sitting on this movie ever since the release of the Evil Dead remake that he had also directed. I tip my hat to the whole cast and crew of Don't Breathe, but I have to pay a much greater respect to both Fede Alvarez for the brilliant job he did with putting such a legit psychological thriller onto the big screen, and to Stephen Lang for being able to give me a horror movie character that's not a monster that actually freaked me out.