***SPOILERS*** Mindless home invasion thriller that seems to run out of steam and storyline just when its supposed to tie all the loose ends together at the very end.
We have these two rich and fun loving couples Cameron & Maria and their best friends Parker & Jonie planning to spend a quite weekend at Cameron's fathers mansion on the out of the way Caribbean island St. Carlos. It's then that both a category 4 hurricane and a trio of murderous home invaders lead by the grizzly looking Val and his two accomplices Angel and Ria independently crash the place. Val & Co. are looking for a hidden safe in the mansion that contains, are you ready for this, 10 million dollars in hard cold cash. With none of those at the mansion not knowing a thing about the hidden treasure, or safe, Val starts to lose it threatening to murder them all if they don't reveal to him where the safe is!
To make their point clear Val's fellow home invader Angel shoots and kills the mansion houseboy Alfonso when he later shows up to see if things are all right at the place. Alfonso who smelled a rat, in Val and Co. being at the place, was about to get back to town and get in touch with the local police. It's when Alfonso decided to be a hero by coming back to the mansion with a tire-iron to take on the trio that he ended up getting himself killed, by Angel, for it!
With a dead body, Alfonso, to dispose of and now a major hurricane bearing down on the island of St. Carlos where their at Val and his team have to find the hidden safe with the ten million smackers before the local police, contacted by Alfonso before he was whacked, headed by inspector Raddimus show up at the mansion!
***SPOILERS*** It then that we start to get the picture in what all this mindlessness craziness is all about on Val's part, It's Val who, unknown to almost everyone in the films cast, who has a secret secret plan in him getting the 10 million that is really not in the mansion's safe, which turns out to be empty! This all has to do with the life of one the people at the mansion who'll be worth millions if he doesn't come out alive by the time the movie ends!
Despite its very complicated plot the movie just doesn't quite hold your attention. That's because its so ridicules in what its trying to bring out about what Val is really up to that when it finally hits you, if your still around to watch it, it seems as if everyone in the movie, home invaders and hostages, seemed to have completely lost interest in it! The ending really flips you out in that it seems to go to two different places at the same time: The reality of the moment and at the same time an off the wall dream like "Twilight Zone" surprise ending.
The most surprising thing about the movie at all is that it has in it Carlos Pounce as the islands top police official Inspector Raddimus. Raddimus also has something to do with the movies surprise or dream-like ending which like everything else in it makes no sense at all! Raddimus, or Carlos Ponce, was so good in the film "Break-in" that he was immediately brought back into another St. Carlos based crime thriller "Vanished" just a month after the made for TV movie "Break-In" was broadcast on Lifetime TV!
We have these two rich and fun loving couples Cameron & Maria and their best friends Parker & Jonie planning to spend a quite weekend at Cameron's fathers mansion on the out of the way Caribbean island St. Carlos. It's then that both a category 4 hurricane and a trio of murderous home invaders lead by the grizzly looking Val and his two accomplices Angel and Ria independently crash the place. Val & Co. are looking for a hidden safe in the mansion that contains, are you ready for this, 10 million dollars in hard cold cash. With none of those at the mansion not knowing a thing about the hidden treasure, or safe, Val starts to lose it threatening to murder them all if they don't reveal to him where the safe is!
To make their point clear Val's fellow home invader Angel shoots and kills the mansion houseboy Alfonso when he later shows up to see if things are all right at the place. Alfonso who smelled a rat, in Val and Co. being at the place, was about to get back to town and get in touch with the local police. It's when Alfonso decided to be a hero by coming back to the mansion with a tire-iron to take on the trio that he ended up getting himself killed, by Angel, for it!
With a dead body, Alfonso, to dispose of and now a major hurricane bearing down on the island of St. Carlos where their at Val and his team have to find the hidden safe with the ten million smackers before the local police, contacted by Alfonso before he was whacked, headed by inspector Raddimus show up at the mansion!
***SPOILERS*** It then that we start to get the picture in what all this mindlessness craziness is all about on Val's part, It's Val who, unknown to almost everyone in the films cast, who has a secret secret plan in him getting the 10 million that is really not in the mansion's safe, which turns out to be empty! This all has to do with the life of one the people at the mansion who'll be worth millions if he doesn't come out alive by the time the movie ends!
Despite its very complicated plot the movie just doesn't quite hold your attention. That's because its so ridicules in what its trying to bring out about what Val is really up to that when it finally hits you, if your still around to watch it, it seems as if everyone in the movie, home invaders and hostages, seemed to have completely lost interest in it! The ending really flips you out in that it seems to go to two different places at the same time: The reality of the moment and at the same time an off the wall dream like "Twilight Zone" surprise ending.
The most surprising thing about the movie at all is that it has in it Carlos Pounce as the islands top police official Inspector Raddimus. Raddimus also has something to do with the movies surprise or dream-like ending which like everything else in it makes no sense at all! Raddimus, or Carlos Ponce, was so good in the film "Break-in" that he was immediately brought back into another St. Carlos based crime thriller "Vanished" just a month after the made for TV movie "Break-In" was broadcast on Lifetime TV!
