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Breaking In 2018

Okay, I survived maybe twenty to thirty minutes before I walked out. That's the quickest I've ever bailed on a piece of shit. My tolerance level is going down sharply after the past few months of unrelenting dreck being thrown at my face. The only positive I can muster up from Breaking In, is it's a great tool for students to use in class. Every single little facet is done wrong, from the piss poor attempts at writing to lack of creativity in the direction. I've read rejected scripts in my Screenwriting class that sounded more interesting than what was approved to be shot here. Also, just a tip for producers now, and specifically Universal, if you are not even going to try creating likable characters, at least show them going out in grotesque ways. If this is a horror movie with shit characters, at least give me something else worthwhile, something I can think about on the drive home. When I see a woman getting her throat slit, and you cut away so you don't show anything, that's when I walk out.

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@filmtoaster Keep in mind, this same guy said Jaws was the best film ever made and rated something called "Teasing Master Takagi-san OVA: Water Slide" an 8 saying the cartoon looked great in a swimsuit. Now Breaking In isn't exactly a masterpiece in cinema or anything, but if you're walking out after not seeing a woman's throat get slit then I hope your next stop was to a therapist.

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@paulvincent83 oh, takagi-san is awesome. It's an anime, not a cartoon, with well developed characters... Just saying. And who doesn't love a little gore?!

@paulvincent83 The lack of grit on top of lackluster characters tells me this movie is offering me nothing, that's why I walked. Conventionally, a movie with shit characters or story supplement itself with fanservice. It's the same situation Blumhouse's Truth or Dare was in. Horrible story, no violence to compensate, so there's nothing worth watching.

Also, Jaws is amazing and Takagi-San is great, don't knock it 'till you try it.

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