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I'm a little disturbed by people who say they have no sympathy for the


thieves.

Granted, the thieves are terrible people and they deserved to be arrested and put in jail for awhile.

But just because you break into someone's house doesn't mean they're allowed to trap you in the house and hunt you down like an animal. That goes way beyond defending yourself and your home and into the homicidal maniac territory.

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But just because you break into someone's house doesn't mean they're allowed to trap you in the house and hunt you down like an animal.

That's precisely what it does mean - or should. You have no rights once you enter someone property uninvited and especially when you take a firearm along for company. Morons - snowflake liberal arrested development cases who strike poses and think themselves frightfully 'progressive' and enlightened, at least until they find themselves on the wrong end of a similar offence, at which point they revise their opinions rather quickly - defend wanton criminality when they say things like this.

Granted, the thieves are terrible people and they deserved to be arrested and put in jail for awhile.

Note the mealy-mouthed 'for a while'. The kidnap and impregnation of the car driver is neither here nor there. It has nothing to do with the burglary and in no sense redeems the trio's actions. They were on his property illegally.

Most will believe the plot resolves itself agreeably I have no doubt. 'Strong, independent wymmin' get away with it in films like this, and sacrificing men to the greater good of alleviating female 'poverty' is no sacrifice at all really, particularly when it involves - and doesn't it always seem to? - escaping 'abusive' Moms and their standard evil Nazi boyfriends. Who could possibly complain after all if Rocky's only aim was to give her little sister a better life in good ol' sunny California?

Not a bad film for tension but the amorality of these robbers renders them paper thin as characters. Nothing beyond greed and the avoidance of capture motivates them, and since they give no thought to the nature of what they're doing or its impact on anyone outside the group they possess absolutely no redeeming qualities.

You have to be clinically sub-normal or socially maladjusted to sympathise with this crew - a description, sadly, which fits an increasing proportion of the population these days.

Very sensibly [if nominally] set in Detroit. Maybe they should make a film about how the city got that way.

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But just because you break into someone's house doesn't mean they're allowed to trap you in the house and hunt you down like an animal.

That's precisely what it does mean - or should. You have no rights once you enter someone property uninvited and especially when you take a firearm along for company. Morons - snowflake liberal arrested development cases who strike poses and think themselves frightfully 'progressive' and enlightened, at least until they find themselves on the wrong end of a similar offence, at which point they revise their opinions rather quickly - defend wanton criminality when they say things like this.

Granted, the thieves are terrible people and they deserved to be arrested and put in jail for awhile.

Note the mealy-mouthed 'for a while'. The kidnap and impregnation of the car driver is neither here nor there. It has nothing to do with the burglary and in no sense redeems the trio's actions. They were on his property illegally.

Most will believe the plot resolves itself agreeably I have no doubt. 'Strong, independent wymmin' get away with it in films like this, and sacrificing men to the greater good of alleviating female 'poverty' is no sacrifice at all really, particularly when it involves - and doesn't it always seem to? - escaping 'abusive' Moms and their standard evil Nazi boyfriends. Who could possibly complain after all if Rocky's only aim was to give her little sister a better life in good ol' sunny California?

Not a bad film for tension but the amorality of the robbers renders them paper thin as characters. Nothing beyond greed and the avoidance of capture motivates them in spite of the usual sisterhood-inspired scene as Rocky defies Alex by insisting they lead the kidnapped girl to safety instead of getting out and calling the authorities [which would have made more sense given that we have no reason to suppose the character is in danger].

It isn't the robbery per se but failure to explore the nature of what they're doing or its impact on anyone outside the group that strips the trio of any redeeming qualities. You'd have to be clinically sub-normal or socially maladjusted to sympathise with this lot - a description, sadly, which fits an increasing proportion of the population these days.

Very sensibly [if nominally] set in Detroit. Maybe they'll make a film about how the city got that way.

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I hate to be political about this but it's true... The people who feel sorry for the thieves are probably liberals who voted for Clinton.

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I'm a liberal who voted for Clinton and felt NO sympathy for the thieves. None at all. They all could have died for all I cared. In fact, I wish he had killed them all.

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Clinton was the worst candidate ever to run for president in US history. And a dead animal ran once. Just so were clear.

If you think thieves deserve to be kidnapped and raped then you are insane and should be put in a mental institution.

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Clinton was the worst candidate ever to run for president in US history. And a dead animal ran once. Just so were clear.


Wow, I'm surprised.

If you think thieves deserve to be kidnapped and raped then you are insane and should be put in a mental institution.


Well, it would convince most people to stop robbing people and running people over.

I don't care about a troll who doesn't pay for his opinion telling me how to review movies.

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Actually, those people probably only felt sorry for the girl on account of her being female.

I don't care about a troll who doesn't pay for his opinion telling me how to review movies.

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I was rooting for Alex and Rocky the whole time. *beep* Money, but those two were the protagonists and they were loveable thieves. I never felt sorry for the blind guy and actually was infuriated when they let him live and just tried to escape instead of killing him.

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Wow.

It's nice to know that you'll let anyone get away with breaking into your house and doing whatever the fck they want to you.

Get off your soapbox while I play you a tune on the tiniest violin.

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Why is that? They're all fictional characters. I tend to like villains in fiction. Why is that wrong? All people in this movie were horrible and should have been killed. I feel no sympathy for any of them.

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But just because you break into someone's house doesn't mean they're allowed to trap you in the house and hunt you down like an animal. That goes way beyond defending yourself and your home and into the homicidal maniac territory.


I see what you're saying, however if you break into my house, I say be prepared to become a cripple for life. I don't know about being hunted but if you break into someone's house, you lose whatever rights you had before you entered. I do not condone the blind guy's actions at all, however the people who broke into the house were scum. I felt no sympathy for them in any shape or form. I wanted them to suffer.

And hey, what he did wasn't good either. He should go to jail. But that's a different thread.

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t if you break into someone's house, you lose whatever rights you had before you entered.

I see disturbingly many people claim this in this thread but this is flat out false. Breaking into somones house does not remove ANY rights you legally have at all.

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If you break into someones house you deserve what you get. Everyone in this movie was a pos except for the dog. The dog should have killed everyone. I did enjoy the movie 7/10

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If you kidnap, chain up and rape a woman in your basement for whatever reason you deserve what you get. The dog deserved to die too. I was cheering for Rocky to kill that horrible thing.

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If you murder children for lols, you deserve whatever you get.

I don't care about a troll who doesn't pay for his opinion telling me how to review movies.

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What you deserve is to be arrested and get to prison, not to be shot.

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Apparently you missed the part where they broke into houses before (one was shown and more were implied).

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So OP, if thieves break into your place I bet you're the kind of person who tells them to take whatever they want and to have their way with your wife while they're at it. Idiot.

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