Home Alone: The Holiday Heist
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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- Cast:
- Christian Martyn , Jodelle Ferland , Malcolm McDowell , Debi Mazar , Eddie Steeples , Doug Murray , Ellie Harvie
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Highly Overrated But Still Good
There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.
An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.
It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,
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.
Finn Baxter and his family move from California to Maine to their new house. Finn is terrified and believes the house is haunted. While he sets up traps to catch the "ghost", his parents get stranded across town and Finn is home alone with his sister. Their house is targeted by 3 thieves. Home Alone 5 or as it's more known Home Alone: The Holiday Heist is a 2012 TV Movie that i didn't even know that it existed a few years back and how should i put it? It's better than 3 and 4 combined but that doesn't say much it's still a pretty dumb, over the top and unnecessary sequel to 2 of the best Christmas Movies ever made but let me start with the good, this film it's another guilty pleasure for me cause it has stuff that don't make any sense but it's still a funny film mostly for the 3 thieves played by Malcolm McDowell, Eddie Steeples and Debi Mazar i actually laughed with this sequel more than 4 cause 3 had some entertaining and laughable moments, the main kid Finn at first i thought he was some 10 year-old dumb nerd that plays games but as the films progress those games come in hand and he became a bit more of an interesting character but he is no Kevin for me, the sister was on and off for me she had a couple of good moments but only a few she was mostly annoying, the parents were alright, that little kid Mason at first i found him a bit annoying but as the film continued he helped a lot with Finn's plan to take out the thieves but the reason why i like this film more than Home Alone 3 and Home Alone 4 is because this guy called Simon played by Bill Turnbull i really enjoyed the message the film tried to send that a stranger sometimes is not always a bad person because he really helped Finn and the ending of this film reminded me a lot of Home Alone 1 and 2 and that was great. Now as for the negatives there were some over the top moments with Finn's character at first, some things made no sense at all and they even took scenes from the Original film and tried to do something original but it honestly did not work. Overall Home Alone 5 is no masterpiece it's not as good as the first one and the second one but is way better than the third one and the fourth one and i'm gonna give it an 6.5 out of 10.
The Home Alone franchise pumps out a fifth attempt at recapturing what the first two managed to achieve. In this sequel, the Baxter family moves into a creepy old house in which people believe may be haunted. The young Baxter child named Finn is left home alone (with his sister...) while his parents go off to some fancy Christmas party. Meanwhile, there are three thieves who want to break in to the house and try to retrieve a very expensive painting. Finn discovers their plan, and in true Home Alone fashion, sets up numerous booby traps that will no doubt lead to some bruised and battered bad guys.Home Alone 5 does a few things well. I liked the location shots of the creepy old house, and I really liked the villains in this film. In fact, I found the most enjoyable parts where when the three thieves were on- screen. Malcolm McDowell, Debi Mazar and Eddie Steeples are terrific as the bumbling criminals. Everything other than that is a failure. The boy is never REALLY home alone. His sister is locked in the basement downstairs after trapping herself in the walk in vault where the expensive painting is. I did not like some of the acting from the family, and I did not like the direction they took with some of the characters. The mother is written as just some over-hyper super bitch, who doesn't seem to give a damn about her kids most of the time. It was a weird dynamic between her and the rest of the family. Oh and like every other who tried to match him, The child actor in this one is no where close to Macaulay Culkin and his performance in the original films. He isn't bad, but with these sequels you can't help but compare to the best of the best.Home Alone: The Holiday Heist does try, a lot more than the dreadful Home Alone 4 did. However it just isn't a great movie nor does it add ANYTHING to the Home Alone franchise. I always appreciated the third film because it branched off a bit from the usual cookie-cutter plot of the previous two Home Alone films, but this one stuck to simplicity. 4/10
my problem with this film is that the bad guys were not bad people. He was a treasure hunter at best and cared for nothing but a painting. and the other two were dumb, but nice the entire movie,even in the car scene, "sit down and put on your seat belt" The reason the first 3 were so great is because we rooted for the kid to win, he is the underdog against dirty, ruthless criminals. Not the case for this movie. I found myself feeling bad for the criminals being attacked, and the attack were so so, i understand there budget isn't there but with todays technology. you can do better Hollywood! everything was so much more well done and real looking in the originals.I saw the hidden meaning, that kids are isolated with video games/cell phones and should get back to real life, but every-time i watched the kid.. His character to very bratty, cocky and not charming.Im sure kids will love it, not a bad movie, just lacked and didn't feel "real life" enough.2.5/5