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In contrast to the earnest anguish and terror of the rest of the picture, it's audacious and cheeky, verging on naughty. It goes too far, then way too far, in a good way, putting a bizarre new frame around the movie you've been watching. But once the buzz from the ending fades, you may find yourself resenting "Welcome Home" for not figuring out that it could've been a classic until it was too late.
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He gives her a ride back, and then offers to give them a ride to town the next day. They agree, and spend an awkward ride there the next day. Bryan accuses Cassie of not being able to see how Federico looks at her with lust; disgusted, Cassie leaves to go back to the house. Federico invites two ladies to help Bryan back to a hotel.
In WELCOME HOME, Bryan and Cassie are an American couple trying to rescue their failing relationship by renting a vacation home in the Italian countryside. When they arrive, it's everything they hoped it would be, but Bryan is unable to get past Cassie cheating on him with a coworker, even as Cassie has begged for his forgiveness. In order to take a break from the bickering, Cassie decides to go on a run on the paths around the villa, but trips on a branch and twists her ankle. She's brought back to the villa by Federico , a seemingly charming local man who starts making suspiciously-timed appearances after this initial meeting. While Bryan suspects Federico of having ulterior motives toward Cassie, Cassie considers Federico to be a nice local man who just wants to be friends.
Why did Bryan and Cassie come to Umbria?
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The purpose of their visits is to mend their relationship and take it further. But things get twisted when they find hidden cameras all over the house. And on that score, unfortunately, "Welcome Home" has to be considered a missed opportunity. As directed by George Ratliff and written by David Levinson, the movie unfolds along fairly predictable lines.
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Tap "Sign me up" below to receive our weekly newsletter with updates on movies, TV shows, Rotten Tomatoes podcast and more. The visitor turns out to be Eduardo, the owner of the house that Bryan called earlier to complain about Federico. Bryan tells him that everything was all right now, and Eduardo asks to check the house. Eduardo goes to check and Bryan and Cassie panic, wondering what to do. The couple, were rather poor I thought, I'm a huge fan of Aaron Paul, but he was very bad in this, partly due to the shocking script he was having to deal with.
Parents need to know that Welcome Home is a 2018 thriller in which an American couple renting a vacation home in the Italian countryside discover they're being stalked and spied on by a creepy local. Some violence -- fighting with canes, knives, guns, resulting in death. Profanity throughout, including "f--k" and "f--king." For animal lovers, the close-up of the bad guy preparing a rabbit for dinner -- skinning the body and then cutting it up into little pieces -- will be a bit much.
There are no featured audience reviews for Welcome Home at this time. Bryan finds the computer room and sees the two have been recording lots of couples. Bryan burns the tapes outside, and he and Cassie bury the bodies. They destroy the cameras, but what they don't know is they didn't discover all the cameras. They promise each other never to tell a soul of what happened. The film ends with people around the world seeing them burying the bodies and being horrified.
The chemistry between Paul and Ratajkowski is pretty good, even if the writing belabors the strained relationship of their characters. The story itself, when not redundant, is a little too tidy, by the numbers. Cassie, Ratajkowski's character, seems to all of a sudden realize that Federico isn't a good guy after all, and it comes across as convenient to the story as most of the other plot points. What's left is the annoying feeling that a movie that, on paper and considering the talent involved, should've worked, but simply didn't. Bryan and Cassie are a couple who decide to stay in a house in Umbria.
Scarmacio's performance is so intricate that he manages to suggest a backstory for Federico even though the film is mostly mum on where he came from and what drives him. His darkly handsome features and boyish sense of menace evoke Javier Bardem and Ray Liotta in villain roles. You feel sorry for his character even when you're rooting for his violent death.
The minute you see the couple settling into that beautiful house, you know that the story has to end there, probably with several prolonged acts of gruesome violence, because that's how these movies resolve. It's a built-in aspect of the genre, like the gunfights that end Westerns. What matters is what the filmmakers do with the standard elements, and how they get to the ending. It is shown that Federico has secret cameras all over their house, and is secretly watching them. Federico starts showing up when Bryan is not around, and Bryan discovers that Federico is not their neighbor, despite his claims.
But the last sequence revealed that a dwarf showpiece in the back garden had a camera installed in it too, which Bryan overlooked. The footage was played live by a plethora of couples around the world. The holes in her identity compel Bryan to suspect Eduardo’s existence. For a brief moment, he believes that Federico is Eduardo who rents the house to creep on the couples. Another reason for his suspicion is that he looked like a total wreck when he visited Federico’s house.
The cameras were operated through a control room in the basement of the house. The man sitting behind the screen was none other than their charming Italian neighbor, Federico. But Bryan kept visiting the visuals of the past as he made love to Cassie. With Aaron Paul and Emily Ratajkowski at the helm of things, the film never falls short of wit and charm. A couple's attempt at reconciling their relationship at a rental house in Italy is interrupted by the owner's evil plans. A couple spend a weekend at a vacation rental home in the Italian countryside in an attempt to repair their relationship, but soon become victims of the homeowner's sinister plans.
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