Home Alone: The Holiday Heist

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People judge this film like it has pretended to be a masterpiece.. It's just a nice and lovely family comedy.. I enjoyed this movie a lot.. and it's one of the very few movie that I watched more than once

Over the holiday season my wife and I watched all 6 Home Alone movies. 1 is a classic. 2 should have deviated a bit more for my tastes. 3 was a mess but a parrot capable of critical thought kept me engaged. 4 was an absolute disaster of a movie. 6 was trash. My expectations were low as we rolled into this one but I was pleasantly surprised. It deviated from the formula. Someone actually wrote this movie! I laughed multiple times, it kept me engaged throughout. The booby traps were funny. Hats off! Definitely underrated.

Better than home alone 4 but still not worth much. The acting is meh. You got your cliche mean grumpy sister You have your loner gamer Son wimpy Dad Bossy mom. The movie is basically like any Home Alone movie with booby traps and dumb burglars. This movie should be called Home Alone: The Holiday Cliche.

Normally by the time a film franchise reaches it's third or fourth in its series, one can usually hear the bottom of the barrel being scraped on the soundtrack. There are exceptions to this of course, but this Home Alone film is not an exception. Home Alone: The Holiday Heist is clearly ultra modern; a video-game obsessed child, a moody teenager and parents who, thanks to the nature of the films, end up leaving their child home alone. The first two films this was done by accident. The third film was through illness of the main character, the fourth wasn't home alone at all (technically), and this fifth one doesn't leave the main character home alone, but with his older sister. He still gets the lion's share of screen time. Add a couple of bad guys who want to break into a house for some reason, the odd booby trap here and there and we have something that sounds like Home Alone. Macaulay Culkin unfortunately grew up over the years so the mantel of being the Home Alone boy falls to other actors. For Holiday Heist, this landed in the lap of Christian Martyn, who was also in the Snowmen film and Be My Valentine. Martyn's performance is solid here given the material he has to work with. Film wise, I half expected this to be even worse than Home Alone 4, which set the standard so low for this franchise that it was practically buried under the ground. Thankfully it was actually better than Home Alone 4, and if Holiday Heist had had a more polished script, better bad guys and had actually left the kid home alone as opposed to being in vocal communication with his big sister through the air duct, then this could have possibly snapped at the heels of Home Alone 3. Holiday Heist doesn't get anywhere near Home Alone and Home Alone 2; I'll be surprised if any future additions to this franchise do, to be honest. Worth a watch on a movie channel around the holiday season though.

I mean every word of that statement, this is the greatest holiday film in all of existence. it's festive, suspenseful, shocking and funny all things that add up to a spectacular movie filled with fun for the whole family. it may be flawed but isn't any good film? this film is on par with the works of citizen kane and the godfather so take it for what it is, the greatest holiday film of all time.

(I thought I did this review already) I saw this in 50 Days Xmas after the 30 Days of Halloween lol Not as good as first two movies series, Never seen the 3rd in full, I hated number 4, i thought it really bad, did not find it funny at all. New family movies into home, the kids things house haunted, Older teen is not helping and Kid next Door is helping when tell he about the Haunting of the house. The family member were all meant to go Xmas Party , kids don't what too, soon they leave the kids home, Older teen sister. stay in room like any normal teen While 10 year old boys, who plays games no- stop, talking other older guy on X-box also dose a lot of things that Kevin did in the first movie, Like shaving (But not screaming) and like Sliding down stairs in Basket instead of a Sledge. However when he tells sister about new secret room in the basement, she tries scare him but ends up getting trapped in the Basement. Then house starts to get attacked by 3 robber and he makes number of Traps. Some really funny moments better then fourth , more then worth watching, really nice endings near the end as well. 6 out of 10

This movie is totally not worth watching. Almost same story, same expressions, same duo/trio villain ,worthless composition and dumb presentation. The dumb villains don't even evoke laughter. Even the traps are same as the last movies. They were triggered a bit differently, but definitely not in favor of making it better. I was a home alone fan. I tried to watch it completely unbiased. SO I did not read any review or checked the rating. It seems, had I checked the rating and refrain from watching it, it would have saved me from wasting my time.I am so disappointed that I had to write this review to warn other fans. Try not to watch it. It will just break the spell altogether.