Edge of seat stuff

Rating: 8/10 (21 May 2018)

Alex gets information from his Dad's security company to target houses for burglaries which he carries out with Rocky and Money (he fancies Rocky, but she is Money's girlfriend). Rocky is a victim of her alcoholic mother, Alex would be a decent lad if he wasn't besotted with Rocky, and Money is a despicable sh!t beyond redemption. So another job is lined up....
The target is the only remaining inhabited house in a deserted section of Detroit. The occupant is a blind war veteran who has a settlement from the parents of a girl who killed his daughter in a road accident: that settlement is the target for the burglary. No-one lives nearby, the old guy is blind, and Money has brought along a gun, you know, just in case. What could possibly go wrong?
Anyone who has seen a movie with a similar set-up - it's not uncommon - will know that quite a lot can go wrong, actually. And so it does, And it would be really unfair for me to say any more, for two reasons.
One, this film is very suspenseful, and I wouldn't want to spoiler any of the suspenseful elements as our three young villains try to avoid being detected by the unseeing householder.
And, two, there are a number of occasions where the story takes you into WTF? territory. Perfectly fairly, it turns out, but sudden turns which come at you out of nowhere. I do love a film which suddenly completely wrongfoots you.
Stephen (Avatar) Lang is the blind veteran, but the young unknown actors who play the gang are all very good, too.
Despite having some misgivings over the way the perceived moralities of the characters get played with, I thought this was a rather good suspense thriller.