{"id":35549,"date":"2021-07-24T11:20:29","date_gmt":"2021-07-24T15:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=35549"},"modified":"2021-07-24T11:20:29","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T15:20:29","slug":"masquerade-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/24\/masquerade-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Masquerade (2021)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I\u2019ll be honest, I have a soft spot for home invasion thrillers; most of the time they always entertain me, because I love how they can be twisted for various narratives by writers and or directors. It\u2019s sad though when I was finished with \u201cMasquerade\u201d that I couldn\u2019t get over how boring it was. This is a movie with a genuinely good idea that fails to derive much tension or suspense at every turn, and doesn\u2019t make much of a case for caring about any of the characters. Even when it drops a big climax twist on us, I was generally indifferent toward the entire experience.<\/p>\n

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Eleven-year-old Casey is home alone — until a group of intruders, led by Rose, breaks in. They plan to steal her family’s priceless collection of artworks, but their reckless ambition is outmatched only by Rose’s opportunism. As the stakes grow even higher, Casey now finds herself in a fight for her life as the invaders prove they’ll stop at nothing to get what they want<\/p>\n

Much of \u201cMasquerade\u201d revolves around the home invasion and there isn\u2019t much stakes placed behind a lot of what we see. There are minimal characters, and minimal settings, and not a lot of rhyme or reason for what is established. There isn\u2019t a ton of explanation as to why Bella Thorne\u2019s character Rose has to bond with the couple she\u2019s stealing from, there\u2019s not a ton of reason why the writers establish a relationship between her and the couple of victims in the narrative, plus there isn\u2019t a lot of reason why her character\u2019s feelings flip on a dime.<\/p>\n

One moment she\u2019s conflicted about the big theft, and then once she\u2019s integrated in to the central premise suddenly she\u2019s a ruthless maniac. Why set up all this inner conflict with Rose only to throw it all away in the final ten minutes? You assume with such a big house that we\u2019d get a lot of teeth gnashing tension, but director Taylor does surprisingly little with the setting. Most of the narrative is based on Rose killing time with the target couple she\u2019s driving home, and Casey doesn\u2019t get too much exposition when all is said and done. Alvyia Alyn Lind carries the movie as Casey, the young girl who does everything she can to fight back and survive long enough to help her parents.<\/p>\n

Alyn Lind\u2019s performance is the strongest among the cast, as most of the time they all look bored. There should be so much more emotional turmoil and suspense, but most of the time everyone seems to be going through the motions. At the very least Shane Dax Taylor is a solid director, but \u201cMasquerade\u201d is just a terrible film that doesn\u2019t give us the best of anyone in the production.<\/p>\n

Available in Select U.S. Cinemas, and to Rent or Buy on Apple TV, Amazon, GooglePlay, Vudu, and other streaming platforms, and pay-TV operators.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ll be honest, I have a soft spot for home invasion thrillers; most of the time they always entertain me, because I love how they can be twisted for various narratives by writers and or directors. It\u2019s sad though when I was finished with \u201cMasquerade\u201d that I couldn\u2019t get over how boring it was. This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[240,302,457,474,703,1012,1087],"class_list":["post-35549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-crime","tag-drama","tag-heist","tag-home-invasion","tag-mystery","tag-survival","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35551,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35549\/revisions\/35551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}