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" DVD- 1hr. 28min. First Viewing Breaking In isn't revelatory to filmmaking, or even the Die Hard-aping sub-genre of action-thrillers, but it's a quite easy, and surprisingly effect take on the genre. Director James McTeigue brings more genuine filmmaking polish to this thing than the story deserves, and Gabrielle Union is respectably committed and empathetic in the lead role. The story is pure trash, but the people involved do their damnedest to make things work. Luckily, they succeed more than "

"A reasonable exploitation B-movie has Gabrielle Union as a mother bringing her children to her father's home after his death. Planning to sell his high-security home, she soon finds that the building is under siege from thieves who have locked her out while they hold her children inside. This routine thriller has the added twist of Union as the action hero, a woman who can take on any man and when asked what her secret is, tells the captures: I'm a mother!"