Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Boring

Better Late Then Never

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

THE BREAK-IN is an indie riff on PARANORMAL ACTIVITY, as are so many, and featuring the same kind of atmosphere of tension and disquiet. This time around the story is non-supernatural and concerns a young expecting couple who are disturbed by increasing reports of burglaries in their neighbourhood. Their story is captured via found footage in a low budget but fairly realistic way. The problem is that the events that do take place are few and far between and they're also quite familiar despite attempts at atmosphere building. The twist ending is the only thing of note in this one.

So this was OK for the first half. The setup seems complicated and filled with intrigue. The couple seems normal but interesting enough. The plot points at neighbors, aliens or something very odd going on!The snippets of a culprit(s) creates the intrigue.This is shot like it is on a phone, live action, shaky, etc.The answers in the end are very simple. We were drawn in by the obscure nature of this. It was like aliens or something might be trying to get them. The feel of Bodysnatchers or something.In the end a very simple plot with not so complex and ending.

I expected to hate this movie going into it, especially after seeing mixed reviews on Amazon. The first 15 minutes, I thought to myself, "another cheesy found footage film". But then I started to get engrossed with the characters. Not a ton happened in the first half hour, but for some reason I was drawn in by the characters. I continued to watch and so glad I did. Even without the cool twist at the end, I would have still given this at least an 8 star rating. The ending was very original and made me a big fan of this film. The acting was all very good. Every single character you believed in and I was rooting for the protagonist. Cant wait to see this actors in other movies. Turn the lights off, turn the sound up, and enjoy a very cool and original found footage film.

This was by far THE worst movie. If it got any stars above 2, then it's just people who know the Josh guy who created it. It's not intriguing, thrilling, suspenseful or anything you would think this movie would be. The ending has NOTHING to do with a break-in, which is what the title is. You spend an hour watching the most nauseatingly happy people do the most mundane stuff (I.e. shopping, cooking, drinking wine with friends) and then in the last 12 minutes or so, when you think to yourself, "FINALLY! It's September 13th!!," you are given an ending that does absolutely NOTHING. It has NOTHING to do with a "break-in." It's this guy who had, for whatever reason, walked around with his camera phone (one that doesn't seem to work so well) recording all day long (this phone's battery was awesome though) because he was, oh so excited he didn't have a flip phone anymore (in 2011), that he sleep walks and, thinking he sees a man with a ski mask, kills his fiancée. The end. Nothing on who the guy standing outside of their house was, who was breaking into the houses in the neighborhood or even who stabbed their best friend, nothing! The description says, "More than 2,000 Americans are victims of home burglary each year. How safe is your neighborhood?" but the end of the movie gives statistics about how many homicides are committed by sleepwalkers :/, so which is it that we are supposed to be focusing on here? I'm so glad this movie was never in the theaters for me to waste money on and that I watched it for free on Amazon, even still I feel robbed.