As a thriller, Hold Your Breath is about three burglars infiltrating a veteran's home and playing a cat-and-mouse game of life and death. Overall I think it's alright, full of tension, but the plot is a bit boring.
First of all, the atmosphere of the film is very substantial and the tension is very strong. The various one-shots of the burglar's first entry are absolutely perfect for an immersive experience, and the carefully silenced scenes of the burglar remind me of "A Quiet Place" (although "A Quiet Place" didn't come out until two years later) , There is also the shadow of the basement of "Silence of the Lambs" when chasing in the dark in the basement. All in all, I give full marks to the atmosphere of the film. The main character's acting is also great.
However, the plot of this film personally finds it very boring, with low suspense, and the whole plot trend is actually predictable. If you have seen "Thriller Space", then the plot of this film is actually a reversed version of "Thriller Space", but this time the hunter is the homeowner, the prey is the thief, and finally the thief has achieved his goal. The order in which the thieves die is completely predictable based on the first few minutes of the movie. There are only two plots in the whole film that surprised me: one is that the imprisoned perpetrator of the car accident is found in the basement; the other is that the heroine finally turned down the veteran. But it was found that the plot of the detainee was too short, and there was a feeling of the light of surprise being extinguished when the veteran was shot to death. As for the last heroine who defeated the veteran, it was completely unexpected because I thought the ending would be the annihilation of the entire army of thieves. Of course, the ending kept both the heroine and the veteran alive, perhaps to leave a foreshadowing for the next movie?
In addition to the horror, the protagonist's character setting is also very disgusting (the veteran imprisoned the girl and impregnated it here, it is really disgusting), so that I have no sympathy for anyone in the end. In fact, the film's portrayal perspective is on the heroine. The front part of the movie focuses on the heroine, but the poor side of the homeowner's veteran has not been fully displayed. The character setting of the whole film made me feel uncomfortable, and gave me a feeling of watching a dog bite a dog (different from "Three Billboards", where people are also perfect, people in "Three Billboards" are all good-hearted at the end compromise was reached).
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