Home Alone (1990)
Posted By Action Flick Chick on December 25, 2008
Home Alone is one of those movies that should be on everyone’s list of movies to watch over the Christmas holiday. It’s tradition, it’s a must, it’s a friggin’ travesty if you don’t watch it at least once over the holiday season. Now Home Alone is not a traditional action movie, but it does have some robber ass kicking in it by an 8-year-old boy. Come on guys, did you really just get out smarted by an 8-year-old? I am not going to give a plot summary of this one. You should have seen this movie by now or at least know what happens or you can not call yourself an American. It is fun to just go back to your childhood sometimes, where from your perspective everything is exaggerated; everything that happens is either the end of the world or the coolest thing in the universe, where every older sibling is a mortal enemy and a hero, and where you have at least one neighbor who is the friendly neighborhood sidewalk salter, and for sure the friendly neighborhood mass murderer. Good times.
Time until robber related action: ~42 minutes, and I think I am being generous with that estimate.
Bad guys: The bad guys (robbers)
Best Line: “You guys give up, or are ya thirsty for more?”
Best trap: Ohhh, so many good ones to choose from, but I am going to go with the blow torch incident. After many failed attempts to enter the house, robber #1 decides to stop messing around by kicking in the backdoor of house. The door was attached to a blow torch. It gets set off and sets the poor old robber guy’s head on fire. He goes running from the house and jumps head first into the snow bank. That just looked extra painful.
Best narrow escape: Kevin is face to face with the robbers. He turns to go up the stairs to the third floor of the house and robber #2 grabs his pant leg. Up on the stairs crawls the family pet tarantula. Kevin grabs the 8-legged freaky thing and puts it on the robber’s face. He screams like a 4-year-old girl being face to face with the boogie man. He lets go of Kevin to defend himself against the terrifying little spider and Kevin gets away.
Rating: ½ kids in holiday sweaters screaming for the film’s action level. Don’t get me wrong, I love this movie but it only has about 15 minutes of good robber butt kicking action in the whole movie. There is not even one (spoiler alert) kill or explosion. I think they could have found a way to work one of those in. Who would have thought a PG movie called Home Alone starring a little kid wouldn’t have any kills in it?)
Half a kid screaming.
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