I love this movie so much

the audience applauded

Surprisingly incoherent and boring

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

There are not many watchable Christmas movies, but this fifth installment of the Home Alone movie series is worth watching, at least once.This film is not as good as Home Alone 3, but it is funny at times and still has the cringe-worthy humour.As a person who hates swear words, i find this flick refreshing as there aren't any curse words in the dialogue (that is one of the positive features of family films) the only word that is featured which comes close to a swear word is the word "Shut up" which is not that bad and is actually funny due to the way the particular character uses this word.Home Alone: The Holiday Heist is not a brilliant movie, but i'd rather watch this than a riveting thriller that is full of swear words.

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.

I often times think of IMDb ratings as like grades from schools, as a 7 in a lot of schools is a C. I feel like this movie deserves at least a C. Yeah, it's an unnecessary movie. Honestly, I'm tired of these new Home Alone movies. I can think of a similar movie to Home Alone 1 and 2 which I think is underrated, called Blank Check which I prefer to watch over Home Alone as I think it's faster paced and more enjoyable. Of course, I like the Home Alone movies and will definitely want to see them on TV when they're on this holiday season, though I won't care to see this one. I believe you can find Home Alone on T.V. all year, but I'll tell you from personal experience, I do not think it is worth watching outside the Holiday Season. I feel like it's a good tradition to watch Home Alone during the Holiday Season to get us in the spirit of Christmas, but it doesn't work as well to watch outside the Holiday Season, just like most of us would not listen to Christmas music outside the holiday season. I notice how the environment from the later Home Alone movies have changed. These later Home alone movies seem to be more kid friendly now. Like, they won't have the mild profanity we hear in the first two Home Alone movies which is edited on a couple of channels when it airs during the Holiday Season. The kid who stays Home Alone seems less like a brat than Kevin, as Kevin seemed a little self-absorbed and like a brat. Yeah, he was cute and he's the main character, so a character we're meant to like. But, I normally think of 8-year old kids as innocent, Kevin did not seem innocent. The way he talked with his mom at the beginning of the movie would have gotten a lot of us in trouble if we talked the same way to our parent. So, even though it's probably supposed to be part of the humor of the movie, Kevin seems like the most disrespectful kid I've seen in film of any kid that appeared the same age. Though, it is interesting to see Kevin's family life and his whole family going to Paris in the first, and Florida in the second.So, the kids in the later movies seem less bratty and more like the innocent type. They also seem to keep the movie kid friendly in the later movies by not showing a couple of things they showed in 1 and 3, like Kevin looking at a pornographic magazine he finds in his brothers room and how in the 3rd one Alex's older brother has all these pictures of ladies in bikinis in his room, and one side view of a nude lady Alex uses in one of his schemes.In this one the message is an ideal one, especially for kids of today. It's interesting to think how Home Alone is a generation old from 1990-1992. They don't look so old, but things have changed since the time. Let's think about it, the first movie was made before the internet. Or, before the internet was something we take for granted and use everyday. It like doesn't even show a computer at his rich family's home. Everybody owns computers nowadays. This movie also came out before cellphones, and way before smartphones. Wow, these devices have really changed society. While video games were out during the first movie, they've changed a lot since then. Interestingly, the only way we see Kevin entertaining himself at home in these movies is lounging in front of the TV watching things like the Grinch or Angels With Filthy Souls.A lot of us could say life was simpler when the first two Home Alone movies were made. Because, now we have so many electronic devices. Little kids today have their own iPhones. A lot of kids also seem to have their own laptop computers, tablets, iPads, and high definition TVs in their room. A lot of video games now are online games where kids can spend long hours playing. I'm not saying all kids today are like that. But, it's an annoying thing we are dealing with in life right now as it seems like a lot of the new technology in recent years have stupefied us, and we wonder how our world will run as kids who are used to this technology grow up in the real world and not virtual world? I myself even ought to turn off my electronic devices every once in awhile. This movie tackles that issue. So, while it's an unnecessary movie related to the Home Alone franchise without using Kevin McAllister. I forget how much I laughed when I watched this movie, as I mostly remember the slapstick humor being cheesy and the burglars in this movie being pretty cheesy. They now include female burglars. This is definitely a movie that leaves us with a good message. I feel like the main message of the Home Alone movies is family. This movie definitely leaves us with a message of family. But, the main message is to turn off some of our electronic devices and go out in the real world, along with doing some educational things with your family. Yeah, there is a time for electronics but we need to spend some time doing other things too. The movie shows an older guy Finn becomes friends with who has been wasting his life with video games.Well, all I really can say about this movie is it's unnecessary. It seems better than the 4th one, but it definitely leaves us with a powerful message that's needed for today I can't think of any other movie leaving us with quite the same message.

Back when Home Alone 4 came out, for some insane reason, I gave it an above-lukewarm review, which is a million times what it deserved as it was utterly terrible. Now, 10 years later, Fox have went back to Home Alone for a new Xmas TV movie special. It's watchable, but it ain't no classic.Finn Baxter (and his haircut from 1994) moves into an old house in New England with his parents and older sister. He's addicted to video games and she's addicted to staring at her cell phone. Since most kids are like this nowadays I would have the preferred the unrealistic, healthy, proactive types. Kevin McCallister was a misfit, not a stereotype. Finn is a sorry reflection of today's youth.Hidden in the basement is a prohibition era hooch bar with a priceless painting hanging on the wall. Three bumbling thieves, including Malcolm "I'll do anything for a paycheck" McDowell and the unusually attractive Debi Mazar, want to get their hands on it and plan a robbery while the parents are at some Xmas party in the mountains. Kevin...I mean Finn, defends the house with booby traps while his sister is trapped in the hooch bar.Harry and Marv were the kind of idiots who made for good comedy when getting tortured. But the thieves in this movie are not really that bad, and I kinda felt that they deserved to get the painting. Why should I root for a shut-in child and his torn-faced sister? John Williams gets a 'themes by' credit but approximately 1% of his famous Home Alone score is used, and on top of that it's a bit too loud and overbearing. And since the parents are loud, reactionary idiots I saw no point in wishing for them to reunite with their kids.Saying it is better than 4 is like saying that AIDS is better than cancer, but it makes for a pleasant, one-off addition to your Xmas movie list.