Home Invasion is a pretty good Lifetime movie. It's nothing that would win an award, but it's still pretty good. Haylie Duff and Lisa Sheridan are very well in their respective roles.
The film's premise is very intriguing. Restaurant owner Nicole Johnson (Sheridan) walks in on a (surprise, surprise) home invasion with her adopted daughter, Abigail (Kyla Dang). Nicole is able to shoot and kill on of the intruders, Will (Taymour Ghazi) and forces the other one, Ray (C. Thomas Howell) to flee the house. The gang's lookout, Jade (Duff), is forced by Ray to drive away, leaving Will, her boyfriend, behind.
After ditching Ray in the forest, Jade returns to LA, meets Nicole in a crime victims support group, and sets about destroying her life. The ways that Duff's character goes about destroying the woman's life are very elaborate and seems a bit complicated for a regular person to do. One of the most complex acts she does is make copies of Nicole's keys, breaks into her restaurant (which she's already had closed by putting a substance in the food, making many people sick), setting the place on fire, and planting evidence to frame Nicole for the crime, causing her to lose her daughter.
I won't spoil the ending, but it is pretty good, if not a bit simplistic and predictable. And now, having gotten my positives out of the way, here's my negatives: 1. While Duff and Sheridan shined in their respective roles, Jason Brooks (who plays Nicole's recovering alcoholic boyfriend) is a bit bland in his role as the clueless Lifetime boyfriend who doesn't think anything is amiss until he's nearly killed. And Kyla Dang's portrayal as the innocent Lifetime child pulled into the drama is a bit overly dramatic. 2. C. Thomas Howell's character, Ray, is just awful and could have been taken out, and he should have. Ray is completely unlikable and is your stereotypical "evil Lifetime man" 3. When Jade first meets Nicole at the crime support group, she lies and says her name is Megan. Why does she have to lie about her name? Nicole doesn't know her, so it won't be a risk to reveal her first name. 4. One of Jade's acts of revenge against Nicole is convince her daughter, Abigail, to swim in the pool alone, despite not knowing how to swim. But Abigail's character seems to be between the ages of 8 and 11. Wouldn't she be old enough to know she shouldn't swim alone?
But this movie is still very good and you should watch it if you get the chance.
The film's premise is very intriguing. Restaurant owner Nicole Johnson (Sheridan) walks in on a (surprise, surprise) home invasion with her adopted daughter, Abigail (Kyla Dang). Nicole is able to shoot and kill on of the intruders, Will (Taymour Ghazi) and forces the other one, Ray (C. Thomas Howell) to flee the house. The gang's lookout, Jade (Duff), is forced by Ray to drive away, leaving Will, her boyfriend, behind.
After ditching Ray in the forest, Jade returns to LA, meets Nicole in a crime victims support group, and sets about destroying her life. The ways that Duff's character goes about destroying the woman's life are very elaborate and seems a bit complicated for a regular person to do. One of the most complex acts she does is make copies of Nicole's keys, breaks into her restaurant (which she's already had closed by putting a substance in the food, making many people sick), setting the place on fire, and planting evidence to frame Nicole for the crime, causing her to lose her daughter.
I won't spoil the ending, but it is pretty good, if not a bit simplistic and predictable. And now, having gotten my positives out of the way, here's my negatives: 1. While Duff and Sheridan shined in their respective roles, Jason Brooks (who plays Nicole's recovering alcoholic boyfriend) is a bit bland in his role as the clueless Lifetime boyfriend who doesn't think anything is amiss until he's nearly killed. And Kyla Dang's portrayal as the innocent Lifetime child pulled into the drama is a bit overly dramatic. 2. C. Thomas Howell's character, Ray, is just awful and could have been taken out, and he should have. Ray is completely unlikable and is your stereotypical "evil Lifetime man" 3. When Jade first meets Nicole at the crime support group, she lies and says her name is Megan. Why does she have to lie about her name? Nicole doesn't know her, so it won't be a risk to reveal her first name. 4. One of Jade's acts of revenge against Nicole is convince her daughter, Abigail, to swim in the pool alone, despite not knowing how to swim. But Abigail's character seems to be between the ages of 8 and 11. Wouldn't she be old enough to know she shouldn't swim alone?
But this movie is still very good and you should watch it if you get the chance.