Great film production, but stupidity erupts as story unfolds

Rating: 3/10 (4 July 2018)

The concept for the main movies solid. The actual production quality is solid. The actors chosen for this film are solid. So, then, why do such "solid" foundations ultimately crumble? Simply because of a seriously flawed script and screenplay. Lighting, camera angles, set, all are just fine, as are the characters feeding into the thrill-eager audience, when what happens? Stupidity, pure and simple. A father in close range pointing his pistol at the head of an intruder holding the father's daughter at gunpoint can't or won't or doesn't pull the trigger? The father's wife, daughter's mom sneakily hidden with a gun behind the daughter's assailant and with a clear shot doesn't pull the trigger?? But after subduing the daughter's assailant, the girl's parents can't cooperate on what to do next, but in deciding to turn the guy over to predators the father must, in addition to duct taping the guy, instead of simply dragging the guy out by his collar to the bad guys, instead insists on further taping the guy to a chair before moving him? And afterwards the guy somehow and totally inexplicably slips out of the tight duct-taped mouth so he can again talk to the father who's family he has jeopardized? This does not even begin to explain why the youngest kid in the family is nothing more than an ambivalent jerk. Love the concept, love the killing, love the looks of the film ad Ethan Hawk, just cannot believe how it all goes down!