dancerbarry It's like Citizen Kane! If Citizen Kane was about a dumb kid being left home alone and doing wacky stuff!

Mr OBijac Wrong on so many levels.The plot, the actors (not all), the "comedy"... it's like it was meant for my 5 yo daughter with whom I had the pleasure of watching this trash-flick with. But even she didn't believe half of it, nor did she laughed too often. I certainly didn't.Skip this one, seriously.

neiljones1981 Normally by the time a film franchise reaches it's third or fourth in its series, one can usually hear the bottom of the barrel being scraped on the soundtrack. There are exceptions to this of course, but this Home Alone film is not an exception.Home Alone: The Holiday Heist is clearly ultra modern; a video-game obsessed child, a moody teenager and parents who, thanks to the nature of the films, end up leaving their child home alone. The first two films this was done by accident. The third film was through illness of the main character, the fourth wasn't home alone at all (technically), and this fifth one doesn't leave the main character home alone, but with his older sister. He still gets the lion's share of screen time. Add a couple of bad guys who want to break into a house for some reason, the odd booby trap here and there and we have something that sounds like Home Alone.Macaulay Culkin unfortunately grew up over the years so the mantel of being the Home Alone boy falls to other actors. For Holiday Heist, this landed in the lap of Christian Martyn, who was also in the Snowmen film and Be My Valentine. Martyn's performance is solid here given the material he has to work with.Film wise, I half expected this to be even worse than Home Alone 4, which set the standard so low for this franchise that it was practically buried under the ground. Thankfully it was actually better than Home Alone 4, and if Holiday Heist had had a more polished script, better bad guys and had actually left the kid home alone as opposed to being in vocal communication with his big sister through the air duct, then this could have possibly snapped at the heels of Home Alone 3. Holiday Heist doesn't get anywhere near Home Alone and Home Alone 2; I'll be surprised if any future additions to this franchise do, to be honest. Worth a watch on a movie channel around the holiday season though.

Toma Nikolov Well, when I saw #5 Home Alone I thought immediately about the #4 disaster, but then my next thought was about Alex (Linz) and #3 (my personal best of the sequel) and I decided to give it a try. If I had to buy a ticket for the movie theater I would probably pass, but it was on TV and free, so let's go and see the pros and cons. First of all – it was totally PLAUSIBLE. Everything in the movie can happen (and probably happens somewhere) in real life. There were no amazing kid's stunts, super smart booby traps or villains – mega morons. Even the kid isn't uncatchable. Second – there was NO FAMILY HATRED. I really disliked those moments in #1 and #2 when the siblings were shouting 'I hate you' at each other every two minutes. Here we have the average intra family relations. Third – it was NOT RIDICULOUS. Just think #4 and you will know what I mean. Now cons: To start with – DOESN'T MAKE ME LAUGH ENOUGH. For a comedy it was not much fun and the worst part was the talking. I don't think there is a single memorable quote in the whole movie. Second problem is the genre. Since it is not funny enough for a comedy, what is it? Hardly an adventure and definitely not a drama. Maybe a family movie. But there is the problem – if you have gone for a comedy you will get disappointed. So how do we rate it and do we watch it? It is nice and good movie so 6 or 7 out of 10 is not undeserved. But not a movie worth second watching and if you are thinking of watching it on a special occasion – reconsider! Otherwise those are 90 minutes (plus commercials) you will not regret.