Releasing on the weekend of Mother’s Day was no accident for the house invasion thriller Breaking In, which facilities round a mom who will do no matter it takes to guard her two kids when the household is caught between 4 ruthless thieves and a prize they’re keen to kill for.

Without a doubt, the spotlight of Breaking In is a stellar efficiency by the lead actress Gabrielle Union who performs Shaun Russell – the mom within the movie. Union does a superb job all through the movie conveying the emotion and desperation of a mom who’s combating for not solely her personal life however extra importantly the lives of her kids.

The idea of how ferociously a mom bear is keen to battle to defend her cubs is one other spotlight of the movie. Plenty of flicks have centered round fathers going to extraordinary lengths to battle for the lives of their household, from the Taken sequence to Homefront to numerous others. The identical idea however with the mom on the middle, although, is way much less charted waters for Hollywood. Breaking In provides a cinematic take a look at the safety instincts of a mom when she and her household are positioned in probably the most determined of conditions, and it’s actually considerably stunning that it’s taken this lengthy for a movie to focus on this idea.

In most each different approach, although, Breaking In is fairly commonplace for the style. The plot unfolds virtually precisely as you anticipate it to as quickly because the story is launched, and although there are a number of stunning twists alongside the way in which, there’s by no means any actual doubt as to how the movie will play out.

That’s to not say that Breaking In isn’t suspenseful. Despite leaning closely on the tropes of its style and sticking to the fundamental method that the majority all house invasion films comply with, Breaking In nonetheless manages to ramp up the desperation – and thus the suspense – to entertaining ranges. Breaking In isn’t a Home Alone sort movie the place the heroine bests the bumbling intruders at each flip and leaves them wishing from the second they arrive that they’d picked a special home to burglarize. In Breaking In, the stakes are excessive, the state of affairs appears hopeless, and Shaun Russell should battle for all her value simply to have an opportunity at making certain the survival of her household.

Overall, Breaking In is an pleasing movie that makes good use of its 89 minute runtime. If you look previous Gabrielle Union’s wonderful efficiency and the movie’s mother-centric plot, there will not be a lot that separates Breaking In from each different movie within the house invasion style. Nevertheless, these two highlights are nonetheless sufficient to make Breaking In a worthwhile watch.