DVD review: Breaking In

DVD: Breaking In

Reviewed by: Samantha Keogh

Review made possible by: Empire Entertainment

A great, edge of your seat watch for the holiday season and – spoiler alert – the bad guys get their just desserts.

After her father’s, Isaac, murder, Shaun Russell travels to the house she grew up in with her two children, daughter Jasmine and son Glover.

Shaun intends to settle her father’s estate and sell the remotely-located house.

From the moment she enters her estranged father’s home she realises there may have been more to him than she knew.

The house is installed with multiple security features, including a hand-held remote monitor, as well as cameras in every room and window and door shields.

The security system is offline at their arrival, but is soon reactivated by Jasmine.

Unknown to the family, four criminals – Peter, Sam, Duncan, and their leader, Eddie – are already in the house and take Jasmine and Glover hostage while Shaun is outside. Peter chases Shaun into the woods, where she manages to knock him unconscious. She leaves him bound and gagged, and uses the intercom to call the house.

Eddie tells her they only came for the safe and the $4-million (approximately R57-m) they believe is inside; Isaac was under investigation and Sam had learned that he liquidated his assets.

The crew has only 90 minutes from when they cut the phone line before the security company will contact police, so they want to find it and leave quickly.

But despite the fact that they have her children, Shaun isn’t helping the thugs nearly as much as Eddie expected.

In fact, she is a lioness on the prowl, determined to inflict as much pain on the men who have her children as possible, and she isn’t above maiming or killing them if that’s what it takes to keep her cubs safe.

While this one isn’t appropriate for squeamish or younger viewers, it is a great suspense thriller for fans of psychological thrillers.

A definite much watch and one to add to the DVD collection.