Director: Martin Guigui
Year: 2021
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
Plot:
Inheriting his mother's beach-front property, a man and his wife seeing the burnt-out house to be perfect for them to flip on the community and decide to start renovating the house. As they begin the process, they find the previous now-homeless owner of the house now squatting under the house and unwilling to leave under any circumstances, eventually causing the two sides to wage a war for the property that turns far more deadly than anyone thought was possible.
Review:
There's not a lot to like here as it does have flaws. The main factor to like with the film is the general setup present here which manages to highlight some pretty accessible formulas that bring everything together in a fun way. The idea of the couple moving into the home and begin to reconstruct it in order to flip it creates a genuinely enjoyable setup that launches the thrills when the discovery of her sleeping there the whole time is found out. The manipulation and sexual shenanigans that arise from her desire to stay there against their wishes to move her out and keep their marriage together make for a cheesy series of encounters that belie this factor, leading to a back-and-forth type of situation that continually escalates between the three including the deliberate murders, stalking scenes throughout the area and plenty of sleazy situations that emerge which are quite fun.
However, for all this to work, the films' storyline has to be ignored which isn't always possible. There are so many gaps in logic and reason for this to work, including why no one calls the police on her for her actions against them when she pulls wanton acts of destruction against them or their property in full view of the public, trespasses against the two numerous times without incident and has no real backlash for the sexual dominance she exhibits towards him. These situations and events are overlooked and wiped aside to the point of complete incredulity that goes hand-in-hand with the completely moronic storyline of her claims on the house as this setup makes no sense or has any legal bearing at all which makes for a tough time sympathizing with her constant claims of being taken for granted.
Moreover, the lack of sympathy extends to the main couple who are completely dull and not that interesting. The two are completely wooden and unremarkable in every sense, resorting to the completely overblown idea of a pregnancy angle to try to drive sympathy for her which doesn't make us really care about them and being too stupid to realize what's going on with her being around the house trying to disrupt their lives but not doing anything about it really makes for a tough time to care about them. Given that this setup is the main drawback to this before even adding in the various issues with the believability of the invasion storyline, it all manages to undo so much of the film with these underwhelming presentations. These issues manage to drag this one down considerably.
Overview: *.5/5
An enjoyable enough effort that manages to work so long as you don't follow the storyline too closely based on how troublesome this aspect of the film is, the film is quite fun as most other thrillers of this style. Give it a look if you're into this particular style of film, the creative crew or not turned off by the issues presented, while most others won't find this one interesting enough to hold up much.
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