As Close to A Home Invasion You Want to Get; Stupid Humanity

Rating: 6/10 (26 December 2016)

From the things we ourselves do to others, and the same mess done unto us by other suckers; WE are a sorry species on any given day.
So many people have only experienced things through the safety of a computer or TV screen and cannot even come close to knowing what true fear and anticipation in the heat of the moment is like. AS for me? I can tell you this film was as close to real as Hollywood is capable of.
How-EVEEEEEER...that is still not saying much for a movie that almost pushed the envelope, but decided not to slap a stamp on it.
We are talking about a time when other movies, like human centipede, became a trilogy ffs and people ate that crud up. Stephen Lang is usually not too shabby when he works on a project, but he is just one man; impressive at times, but he and so much of the rest of this film fell short of greatness often. It could have been better, had the sequence not taken a cheap initial thrill at inception. It captivated me at points, so palpable that I thought I was in for a very rare treat. After all a tale must be enveloping, and especially fiction must be more believable than the truth. Yet Don't Breathe was almost a true tale of desperation and loss.
It should have been braver, and though not always predictable, it ruined itself from the get go, when all it had to do was stamp, seal and USPS TRACK the bloody envelope with more than a ten dollar gift card inside for XMAS.
If you don't really care, and just want another film under your belt, you could do far worse than this film. Rent it cheap or however you wish, if you wish to check it out.
And save the ten bucks for a better film.