Foreclosed

It was refreshing to have a movie from The Asylum that was an original movie, and not just a lower budgeted version of a forthcoming blockbuster - as they tend to do.

I will admit when I saw it said The Asylum on the screen as the first thing, I was about to already give up on the movie before it had even started. But I decided to let it run anyway, and good thing that I did, because "4Closed" turned out to actually be rather enjoyable.

The story is about a family that makes a purchased on a foreclosed house from the bank that seems too good to be true. Upon the day of their great move, it turns out that the former owner of the house is still living there and refuse to give up on his home. With the police on their side, the family have the guy evicted and they can move into their new dream house. But the former owner is going to let his property find its way to other hands without a fight.

The movie stated that it was based on true events, of that I am not sure just how much was based on the story or how accurate it was, because I am not familiar with a story such as this having happened for real.

The Asylum had upped their game and brought a good ensemble of acting talents to the movie; Marlee Matlin and James Denton did have good chemistry together. It was a shame that Paul Sorvino didn't have a bigger role than he had. I was somewhat skeptic about Jamie Kennedy in the role of the crazed home owner, but he actually pulled it off quite nicely, and this is a good step away from the usual comedy stuff that he has to his name.

There is a good pace to the storyline and the movie does keep building up tension. So thumbs up to director Nick Lyon for this.

"4Closed" is a good movie that is entertaining and does have an interesting story. Definitely a bright moment for The Asylum here.

Bought the DVD at Dollar General in the Halloween assortment, not expecting much since it's an Asylum film; but it was not bad. Jamie Kennedy is very believable as a psychopath, one of his best roles I might add. He was extremely convincing. It really was a great little made for tv movie.

If you get a chance to catch this on tv or find in a discount bin, it's worth the 90 minute runtime. Of all the films that Asylum puts out, this is truly one of the best I've seen. The acting was not terrible either, in fact it was pretty good. Great thriller.

Based on true events? Maybe a house was once forclosed on and a guy was upset. No way this was a true story.

I decided to watch the film after seeing the trailer and seeing that it starred 2 famous actors that I had seen and liked in TV shows (James Denton as Mike in Desperate Housewives, and Marlee Matlin as Melody in Switch at Birth).

Although initially the storyline is slightly more original (a family buy a house sold as a bank foreclosure - but the previous tenant refuses to let it go) the suspense lead up and progression of the storyline was far too predictable. Also I felt like the acting by the other actors was pretty sub-par, but this might have been a bad script. Either way, I was cringing throughout.

This film was an easy watch, and the storyline was quite original, but had no strength and nothing to keep me gripped. I would not bother to watch again.

There is worse out there than 4Closed and it is not quite as terrible as what the first reviewer says, but that is not to say much in 4Closed's favour, because there was some potential there that wasn't explored very well. Malee Matlin and James Denton are decent, there are moments of creepy atmosphere and 4Closed also knows what it wants to be and what it wants to do, and doesn't try to go beyond that. Unfortunately that was also a shortcoming, in doing that everything becomes very simplistic and without that much soul. The actors do make an effort, though Christine DeRosa's acting was rather forced and Jamie Kennedy doesn't really convince as a psychopathic creep(not charismatic enough and in a way too nice, also comedy villain quality sometimes), but are ill-served by the lack of tension and suspense in the atmosphere and script, half-baked characters and a complete lack of surprises. Not to mention a story so painfully obvious and when it is devoid of the above things the whole movie just feels flabby. The look of the movie is unappealing, not quite amateurish but rather drab and hurried-looking. For the type of movie 4Closed it's somewhat appropriate but when there's very little interesting elsewhere, it just doesn't appeal. Audibly there's no better news, it's generic in scoring and the sound has a tendency to be muddied. All in all, could have been much more, a few redeeming qualities here and there, but generally it's unexciting, predictable, underwritten, simplistic and largely underwhelming in atmosphere, and just fails to entertain really. 3/10 Bethany Cox