The stupidest movie I have ever watched. Its an insult to any fan who wants to enjoy watching a good thriller.

I found out about this film simply because I had seen The Visit and thought Olivia DeJonge and Ed Oxenbould were fantastic in this as brother and sister. And then I seen on IMDB a film called "Better Watch Out" with them both in as stars and figured it may be an unnoficial sequal or something along those lines. Its not. Firstly I strongly recommned people watch the Visit as it is a brilliant horror movie. But this movie. I will be honest the first 30 mins were brilliant and were setting a fantastic home invasion / coming of age / teen romance movie and the tension building up was brilliant and you could relate to each of the three characters and it felt like this was going to be right up there with 'Halloween' and 'You're Next' in terms of fantastic home invastion movies.Then 30mins in it suddenly goes in a totally different direction. And the direction it goes in completely bastardizes the setup of the first 30mins. It feels like the director and screenwriters suddenly started hating their life, or started smoking something that really caused them to lose touch on reality as none of is any good and none of it makes any sense and it was one of the worst hours in film history. The film over all is not worth a watch, at all. If a better director could remake this movie again continuing on the plot from the first 30mins onwards this would potentially be one of the best horror movies of the year. Overall avoid this movie like the plague. See The Visit twice in a row instead.

'Better Watch Out' has a lot of promise and benefits from good performances from the main cast. It starts out particularly good and the suspense is built up well, but the plot is predictable (I correctly guessed it 15 minutes into the movie) and given away much too early. There is no real plot and usually in a horror or thriller of this sort I'd expect the stakes and anti to be built up more and more as the movie progresses, but that didn't happen. It felt incredibly stagnant and predictable. For horror fans looking for a true horror, I would say this may not be for you. I, for one, was expecting a lot more violence and gore, but most of the violence was mild or took place off camera. It's much more aimed at young teens and/or people that have a preference to thrillers rather than horrors. Although the movie generally fell flat for me, I enjoyed the ending and think the idea was a good one that would've made for an excellent movie if it had been executed differently.

I had no expectation for this movie, so I didn't even know what I was sitting down to watch.It turned out to be a vamped up "Home Alone" just taken to a whole new level."Better Watch Out" definitely had an interesting concept and idea for the storyline. However, it also had a very unpredictable plot, which was a stone weighing the movie down. But the story as a whole seemed somewhat implausible.There was some good acting from the cast, and it was clear that the people here were enjoying what they had to work with."Better Watch Out" is a movie that you immerse yourself into while watching. I will say that the movie is somewhat similar to the "The Babysitter" movie from 2017.If you enjoy a good, albeit not overly scary, horror movie, then "Better Watch Out" is a fair choice for a single viewing.