everything you have heard about this movie is true.

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Della (a still youthful Kim Basinger) is a downtrodden home-maker with young children and a domineering husband. She ducks out to the mall on Christmas Eve to buy some wrapping paper. Unable to find a parking space she leaves a stern note on the windscreen of an inconsiderate driver who has occupied two spaces.When she leaves the mall the parking lot is empty except for the car she had left the note on. It turns out to be a group of thugs looking for trouble. They shoot a security guard who intervenes and Della speeds off; pursued by the gang of thugs who want to get rid of the witness.She crashes her car and hides, grabbing a red toolbox. As the gang chase her through building sites and forest she knocks them off one-by-one with different tools from the red toolbox.The surviving gang members get spooked, deciding that she had a taste for blood.This was a strange movie but in a wonderful way; Kim Basinger is like a deer caught in the headlights but wants to survive for her children, and she gets better and better at dispatching the gang members.When she gets home she is no longer scared of her nasty husband and the ending leaves it pretty clear that he is dead meat.This movie is very entertaining, and Kim Basinger is wonderful as the meek and mild housewife who becomes a ruthless killer.If you get the chance to, see it!

I discovered "While She Was Out" on Netflix. I was in the mood for a suspenseful movie and overall I'd say I was pretty satisfied with the film.It's not a film without its flaws, but it's still entertaining nonetheless. How realistic the movie is, is another matter entirely. Would a real suburban housewife really be able to defend herself against a crazed gang of thugs? Probably not. But it wouldn't be much of a movie if she were killed right off the bat, would it? What I like about a movie such as this is that it shows how something seemingly so trivial as leaving a note on someone's car for taking up two parking spaces can turn into a disaster. People don't think about the consequences of their behavior a lot of the time, and this movie goes to show what could happen. It's important to see that, I think. The darker side of reality. A lot of people don't want to acknowledge it, but it's there.I was a little disappointed with the ending, though. They left it ambiguous, which I understand is so you can decide for yourself what happens next, but that's kind of irritating to me. Sometimes it works, like in "The Thing" but most of the time it feels like the writers are just trying to cop out of showing what really happened next. They don't want to offend anyone, so they leave it open-ended. That's kind of lame, if you ask me.I would say that it's still worth checking out, there are many scenes that will keep you on the edge of your seat, but also know that the movie isn't entirely realistic either. If you can't look past that, you're probably not going to be able to enjoy watching this.

This movie is good for watching while folding the laundry or doing some other mind-numbing monotonous task.Other reviewers have pointed out lapses in logic which I won't repeat here ... except the part that really gets me is ... why does the barista/cashier write "Dela"'s name on the cup if she hands it right to her? Things like this drive me crazy. Though obviously this detail was pivotal to the plot line of DelLa becoming increasingly irritated to the point at which she becomes a raving homicidal maniac.I did enjoy the various dispatchings of the ethnically diverse gang members via the Magic Red Toolbox. Would've been better if they were even bloodier! And I kind of feel disgusted at myself for thinking that the quasi-sex scene at the end was HOTTTTTTTTT. Poor Chuckie! Ending scene was pretty rad though predictable. This movie probably should have stayed as a story, short and sweetly bloody.Among "bad" horror movies (which deserve their own rating system), I'd rate this a 4/10. Among all films ever made, bad-mediocre-good, I'd rate this a 2/10.

So this was supposed to be a thriller, but I found myself laughing most of the time while watching this super stupid movie. This movies is like "Scary movies", thriller and funny. OK, so this movie is super X 10 times stupid!! I don't want to write much of a review, but couldn't resist myself from pointing out some of the demented scenes created by the director.1. A mall, which is so busy at night that a parking space is impossible to find, all of a sudden turns so empty as if it was a graveyard.2.When Kim was escaping from the mall, instead of going back to whatever place she came, she ends up going to the most remote place on planet earth. There were cops too on the way to the mall, but she decides to go to the MARS. 3. What is that red tool box?? lol.......lol.....give me a break!! Why on earth that box?? Many other reviewers have already told a lot about that box. Actually the name of the movie should be "The Red Box" lol 4. When 4 thugs are chasing you, and you have woods in front of your eyes, then what would you do? Right! you would run to your last breath and probably would reach to the farthest end of the woods, but Kim ends up running around the thugs again and again and.........again. 5. Why on earth that Kim's 'pee' scene???!!! The director was so artistic that she covered even the minute details. 6.The young moron thug starts acting like a 150 IQ genius.......He knows how to mark trees, he is even so sure that Kim is around him (in that 100 acre woods) that he talks loud to himself and says "I know you are here".....lol 7. The musical tribute to the dead acquaintance was super hilarious. 8. The abrupt sex scene in the end was out of this planet. I guess Martians feel a burst of sexual desire when they kill 4 people and when their own a** is on fire. This is completely logical for Martians. I am not sure about the folks living on planet earth. 9.Instead of hiding into the woods, she sometimes takes a stupid tool from her Red Box, and jumps to kill a thug like Rambo. 10. Finally when she kills all the thugs, she starts for her home (she doesn't care to tell the cops on the way that she just saw 5 dead bodies, 4 were her own contributions!)This movie is funnier than any of the Scary Movies. Please watch it if you wish to laugh for hours.Beware, despite it's hilarious nature, this movie could be injurious for some people. (and potentially fatal as well).