Kurt Loder reviews two movies this week, including James McTeigue’s new horror film Breaking In. A snippet:
Unlike Jordan Peele’s Get Out, which installed black actors and a startling new point of view at the center of a genre movie, James McTeigue’s Breaking In—likewise a horror film with several black performers—is simply generic. Where Peele’s movie played around with genre conventions, this one plays around within them. There are some familiar frights, but no surprises.
The picture is a variant of the home-invasion story. As it begins we see Shaun Russell (Gabrielle Union) and her two children, teenage Jasmine (Ajiona Alexus) and little brother Glover (Seth Carr), arriving in their Mercedes on a luxurious estate in the Wisconsin countryside. (I know: Wisconsin?) The property, we learn, belonged to Shaun’s sketchy father, now dead. Shaun wants to sell the place, and has driven in to sign some papers. We know she has a loving husband at home because we hear her making nuzzly small talk with him on her phone. He’s tied up at work, so if Shaun should need help, as you know she soon will, her man won’t be on hand to provide any.
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