Home Alone: The Holiday Heist

2012 "The Scariest House You Have Ever Seen!"
3.5| 1h27m| PG| en
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10-year-old Finn is terrified to learn his family is relocating from sunny California to Maine in the scariest house he has ever seen! Convinced that his new house is haunted, Finn sets up a series of elaborate traps to catch the “ghost” in action. Left home alone with his sister while their parents are stranded across town, Finn’s traps catch a new target – a group of thieves who have targeted Finn’s house.

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Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.
Console best movie i've ever seen.
Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.
Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.
adonis98-743-186503 Finn Baxter and his family move from California to Maine to their new house. Finn is terrified and believes the house is haunted. While he sets up traps to catch the "ghost", his parents get stranded across town and Finn is home alone with his sister. Their house is targeted by 3 thieves. Home Alone 5 or as it's more known Home Alone: The Holiday Heist is a 2012 TV Movie that i didn't even know that it existed a few years back and how should i put it? It's better than 3 and 4 combined but that doesn't say much it's still a pretty dumb, over the top and unnecessary sequel to 2 of the best Christmas Movies ever made but let me start with the good, this film it's another guilty pleasure for me cause it has stuff that don't make any sense but it's still a funny film mostly for the 3 thieves played by Malcolm McDowell, Eddie Steeples and Debi Mazar i actually laughed with this sequel more than 4 cause 3 had some entertaining and laughable moments, the main kid Finn at first i thought he was some 10 year-old dumb nerd that plays games but as the films progress those games come in hand and he became a bit more of an interesting character but he is no Kevin for me, the sister was on and off for me she had a couple of good moments but only a few she was mostly annoying, the parents were alright, that little kid Mason at first i found him a bit annoying but as the film continued he helped a lot with Finn's plan to take out the thieves but the reason why i like this film more than Home Alone 3 and Home Alone 4 is because this guy called Simon played by Bill Turnbull i really enjoyed the message the film tried to send that a stranger sometimes is not always a bad person because he really helped Finn and the ending of this film reminded me a lot of Home Alone 1 and 2 and that was great. Now as for the negatives there were some over the top moments with Finn's character at first, some things made no sense at all and they even took scenes from the Original film and tried to do something original but it honestly did not work. Overall Home Alone 5 is no masterpiece it's not as good as the first one and the second one but is way better than the third one and the fourth one and i'm gonna give it an 6.5 out of 10.
SnoopyStyle The Baxters move into their new Maine house for the mother's new job with her boss Mr. Carson (Edward Asner). They don't know the house once belonged to a bootlegger with a rumored valuable missing painting. Older daughter Alexis (Jodelle Ferland) don't like the move. Younger son Finn is always playing his video game. He discovers a walk-in safe in the basement and befriends neighbor Mason who warns him that his house is haunted. Sinclair (Malcolm McDowell), Jessica (Debi Mazar) and idiot safecracker Hughes (Eddie Steeples) are thieves looking to sneak in and steal all the valuables.There are lots of great actors especially the bumbling villains. I'm actually surprised but I guess that even Malcolm McDowell needs to eat. The lead kid is not good enough and a little too old for an adorable role. It's not all his fault. There is no comparison to the fun of the original. By the time the iconic home-made traps appear, it becomes a sad copy rather than a fun homage. This movie is completely flat with no actual humor. The great actors can't do much other than collecting paychecks.
lorcan-61881 Home alone:the holiday heist is a Christmas film that was released in 2012 like 22 years after the first film,the film I think is a straight to DVD film or a TV film. The film tells the story of Finn and his family who move to a new house but Finn thinks it's haunted by a ghost so he sets up a few booby traps for the ghost when suddenly three burglars break in and they stumble in to the traps. Home alone:the holiday heist had some things I liked somethings I didn't like,I liked that it was creepy in places when he went down to the basement and I loved I mean LOVE the robbers in this film there so good and funny and enjoyable like Harry and Marv and I even liked the kid in the film he was funny too but I think it had a bit too much effort in it that the director tried to hard to make it a home alone sequel that it didn't feel like a home alone movie and I think it's a bit too late now guys for a home alone movie I mean it was 1990 the first film came out like that's a long time ago. Home alone the holiday heist is an OK film that I kinda liked and kinda didn't like but it was a lot better than the dreadful piece of trash that came before it home alone 4. Well that's home alone for ya,it was a good franchise but it didn't turn out to be a great series after number 4. Home alone 6 probably won't happen but if it does its rumored to be about Harry and Marv who forgive Kevin and it's going to be a drama.
TheScarecrow This film copped a bad wrap when it was announced due to Home Alone 4 ("Home Alone: Taking Back The House"). That film may be the worst film ever made. This is actually quite good. It's at least as good as, if not better than, Home Alone 3. It doesn't come close to capturing the first two Home Alone movies, but for what it is, it's actually worth watching.A lot of people ask "Why was this made?". It was made, like all movies, to be entertainment. It does its job there. In addition to main "kid" (Christian Martyn) of the film, there is Finn's younger neighbour (Peter DaCunha)and his older sister (Jodelle Ferland). All of them are well cast and avoid the "annoying kid syndrome" that plagues so many movies. The parents. DaCunha is particular good and had me laughing every time he was on screen.This time there are three thieves (Malcom McDowell, Debi Mazar and Eddie Steeples). All three are good. They don't make the impact of Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern by any means, but compared to the unmemorable thieves in Home Alone 3 and the god-awful French Stewart in Home Alone 4 (to be fair Missi Pyle was the ONLY good thing about that movie), the three do really well.The parents (Ellie Harvey and Doug Murray) are a bit annoying but have their funny moments, the mum in particular. The movie is surprisingly well-directed and avoids many TV movie pitfalls. Only a few times did it feel "cheap", which is quite an achievement for a TV movie and one of the biggest faults of the fourth movie. The story isn't bad for one of these films and manages to capture the basic structure of a Home Alone film without copying it.It's not the most brilliant film you've ever watched, but no one expects it to be. For me, it was a surprise how good this was. It made me nostalgic, having grown up with the originals, and I think kids would really dig it.It does what it sets out to do quite well and manages to be entertaining. Definitely worth a look.