Breaking In

Breaking In is produced by and stars Gabrielle Union. It follows her character, Shuan, who is tasked with selling her recently deceased father’s tech savvy family home. She brings her children along, for the weekend, to assist with the sale, not realizing that they are not alone in the home. She then has to fight to protect her family from the invaders.

I thought it was great that Gabrielle Union choose to take the reigns as producer and star. I was hoping with that extra incentive that something really great would be brought to the screen. I thought that the acting from Gabrielle and the two who played her children were good and the casting of her daughter, Jasmine, played by Ajiona Alexus was spot on, but unfortunately that couldn’t save the movie. What I was hoping to be more like a new generation’s version of Jodie Foster’s Panic Room mixed with Jennifer Lopez’ Enough turned out to be more like one of Halley Berry’s recent barrage of D List movies that you wouldn’t even want to watch at home for free.

This movie had so many misses, it lacked strong character development, which made it hard to connect to any of the characters or care what happened to them. It also made it hard to understand the motive of the story. The plot was interesting and I kept hoping it would get better but dropped the ball when it became unbelievable. Additionally, the script was written terribly and at times very corny thus causing me to no longer want to be engaged in the movie.

Even though I really wanted to support this cast, this is a movie that I would suggest saving yourself the hour and a half of disappointment and the $20, by avoiding this one.