The army descends on a cul-de-sac in suburban England and warns everybody to stay indoors for what initially seems to be a terrorist attack but turns out to be something far more ghastly. One mother must battle her way to find her daughter, who has fled to a house across the street after arriving for a reluctant Christmas Eve visit to find mum in bed with a one-night stand. Along the way neighbors accidentally get killed, people shoot at each other, and it’s basically a huge violent mess.
You know, I liked this. There’s not a lot of story here, mostly action. But Scottish actress Neve McIntosh is appealing, the guy who played the nasty rec center manager in “Misfits” does well as her one-night stand who winds up having to stay at her place long after he really probably should have left, and somehow this is the sort of thing the English seem to be good at making entertaining as you watch it, even if it seems a little thin as you think about it afterwards. After a bit of a slow start (army guys, meh) I found it a reasonably enjoyable watch, somehow. Not great, but good, for 90 minutes of claustrophobic violence.