Home Alone: The Holiday Heist (2012)
10-year-old Finn is terrified to learn his family is relocating from sunny California to Maine in the scariest house he has ever seen! Convinced that his new house is haunted, Finn sets up a series of elaborate traps to catch the “ghost” in action. Left home alone with his sister while their parents are stranded across town, Finn’s traps catch a new target – a group of thieves who have targeted Finn’s house.
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While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.
It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.
The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film
It's like Citizen Kane! If Citizen Kane was about a dumb kid being left home alone and doing wacky stuff!
Wrong on so many levels.The plot, the actors (not all), the "comedy"... it's like it was meant for my 5 yo daughter with whom I had the pleasure of watching this trash-flick with. But even she didn't believe half of it, nor did she laughed too often. I certainly didn't.Skip this one, seriously.
Home Alone 1 is a memorable and classic Christmas film that is very enjoyable to watch. This film, the fifth and final in the Home Alone series, fails to live up to the first film 22 years on.It's hard to quite put my finger on it, but the film is missing something. At first glance it seems to have everything that the first film had; a main character that sets traps to catch dim-witted criminals using plenty of traps. Yet it's hardly a delightful watch, for whatever reason.Don't completely dismiss the film, though. It does try to entertain with a plot that actually develops very well, and comedic elements thrown in to keep the film progressing. However, it lacks that beautiful feel of the first and second films, both of which are very entertaining.It's pointless of me to review this film, since even though I'm sure there's something missing from this film, I can't work out what is. It could in fact be the fact that it offers nothing significant since the first movie, and feels like old material.I can say with 100% confidence that you will not regret skipping this Home Alone movie. Stick with Home Alone 1, and if you have time Home Alone 2 as well.
Home Alone: The Holiday Heist is a TV movie and the fifth installment of the Home Alone franchise.It stars Christian Martyn, Jodelle Ferland, Malcolm McDowell, Debi Mazar and Eddie Steeples.It is the second film of the franchise that does not focus on Kevin McCallister but rather a new kid in Finn Baxter.Despite having new characters and a new setting,it pays several homages to the first film. The Baxter family moves from California to Maine.Finn is somewhat suspicious that the house is haunted with a ghost.Later his parents and his sister leaves the house and got stranded across town,Finn finds himself all alone at home by himself and he has to defend his home against three thieves.While this is probably better than the third and fourth mediocre film of the Home Alone series,I felt that it is time to end the series.After telling the same story and providing nothing new,then it is time put an end to the franchise out of respect to the original film,which happens to be beloved by many viewers around the world.