3*, not good.

Rating: 3/10 (2 June 2013)

The concept is a good one; crime is legal for 12 hours, once a year. The storyline though, terrible. It gives us no/very little information on who the main characters are. For me, I need to know more about them before I can feel more emotion for them in a film. If I don't know much about said person, if something happens to them, they're "just another person". All we get told is that the dad sells home protection, and that the daughter has a boyfriend. We know very little about the mother or son. What I think is even worse is that we know next to nothing about the "Bloody Stranger" (played by Edwin Hodge). We know he is homeless, and if you look closely when he is tied up, he is wearing dog tags, so probably has experience in the forces. The film was based around him. If the family gave him up, they would be left alone. It amazes me that somebody so important to the story is kept so secretive. Talking about the story, not much happens! Looking back, I could summaries the full film in about 20 seconds. I'm not going in to great detail, as I don't want to give away any spoilers, but the film, for me, was a big disappointment.