So firstly, you HAVE said that it's a great movie but then you've gone one step ahead and begun nitpicking.
1. At no point in the film did they mention the number of times Alex and co pulled off robberies of this sort. And yes, while it is fully possible that repeatedly accessing the passcodes of several houses would eventually lead to him being caught, we are not told how many runs the gang had made. For all we know, this could have been the 4th or even 5th robbery of theirs and as you know, while this SHOULD set alarm bells ringing, we do not live in a perfect world, there is a lot of lethargy around. Accepting that they had so far not been caught by the security company is very easy, but you've decided that it's poor writing. It is plausible.
2. They do not disclose when he might have kidnapped the girl. If I recall correctly, they mention that it had been 3 years since his daughter had been killed by the rich girl. And considering that the blind man later reveals that he had impregnated the girl, but there clearly was no discernible baby bump could mean that he kidnapped her quite recently, within the past 2 months. It is quite a stretch realistically expecting the feds to show up at an ex military blind man's house holding him as a possible suspect 3 years after the incident that would give him motive to commit the crime. See, simple, just think a little less condescendingly.
3.I found his hearing was sharp throughout the film. Since sound is the thing he relied on most to attack the robbers, he is disoriented by the alarm which is blaring from all directions. This in conjunction with the fact that he realizes that the girl can now get away makes for some melodramatic shouting.
4.As another user pointed out, nothing was stolen since according to his claim, two robbers had broken in and he'd shot down both. Once again, simple.
5.Sure it isn't the smartest thing to carry one million dollars in a small bag at a diner. But neither is it smart to rob houses for a living. She did both. Rocky was no genius. She was a troubled, angsty teen with a plethora of issues.
None of this is bad writing so much as it is your insistence in nitpicking what are plausible if not necessarily probable situations. I do not like the current trend where it is assumed that the writing is poor when it does not answer all your questions. This is a self-aggrandizing belief that feeds off the idea that all writers in the industry can only conjure up generic claptrap. For the horror-thriller genre this was a well-directed and acted movie with a relentless intensity that fit the bill. I've seen much worse movies with the same premise. This, as you said is among the better ones, and it does have problems, but it does way more things right than wrong.
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