Becky (2020)
Directed by Cary Murnion
A teenager's weekend at a lake house with her father takes a turn for the worse when a group of convicts wreaks havoc on their lives.
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She rigs up murder traps so quickly that Becky becomes the bloodiest Home Alone ripoff in existence.
Wilson does a fine job as the emotional anchor of this film, and like Home Alone‘s Kevin McAllister before her, I love how creative Becky gets with her revenge.
Print this column This description probably gives the wrong impression, but I can’t help but make it: the new thriller “Becky” is an angry, R-rated “Home Alone.”
The ultra-violent take on “ Home Alone ” with a precocious teen girl who dispatches bad guys like a killer in a slasher movie?
Becky is the kind of senselessly violent Home Alone knockoff that only exists in the VOD realm these days.
Although there is nothing remotely original or nuanced about Becky – a formulaic thriller that hybridizes Straw Dogs, Home Alone, and Green Room – there’s an undeniable grindhouse pleasure in watching a 13-year-old girl murder the hell out of some Nazis.
Similar to Saulnier’s Green Room and Blue Ruin , the violence is fast, swift, and unforgiving, though unlike those two films, it’s never connected with dread.
Although there is nothing remotely original or nuanced about Becky – a formulaic thriller that hybridizes Straw Dogs, Home Alone, and Green Room – there’s an undeniable grindhouse pleasure in watching a 13-year-old girl murder the hell out of some Nazis.
This kind of casting against type can be effective; think of Patrick Stewart, subverting his regal dignity to play a Nazi kingpin in Green Room (a film roughly 20 times as intense and visceral as this one), or of Albert Brooks proving his range as the decidedly non-humorous, razor-wielding crime boss of Drive .
As a merciless depiction of a fascist monster by an affable figure, it's right up there with Patrick Stewart and his gang of Oregon fuckheads in Green Room in the unexpected stakes.
It’s not quite as much of a superlative role like John Goodman in “ 10 Cloverfield Lane “, but it should open a number of additional dramatic roles for the veteran actor.