IT cost less than $US10 million to make. It made three times that in its opening fortnight in America!

Three young adults believe there’s $300,000 in a rustbelt house in Detroit (where the film’s exteriors were filmed). The occupant is blind. Stealing the cash should be a doddle. And a three-way split will set each of them up.

Jane Levy plays single mom Rocky, desperate to break free from living with her junkie alcoholic mother. She’s no rocket scientist, emotionally vulnerable yet a willing accomplice to the gig at the behest of the morally bankrupt Money (Daniel Zovatto) and her boyfriend Alex (Dylan Minnette).

The opposing team consists of the blind man (his name is never given) and his big black dog of unexplained breed and assertive demeanour, played by Athos, Astor and Nomad.

The plot really takes off once the three thieves get into the house. It spends the rest of its time getting down and violent as they slowly realise that blind doesn’t necessarily mean that a former special forces infantryman with special skills and, as explained in an unheralded sub-plot revealed in mid-film, a strong motive for showing no mercy is defenceless.

The interiors were filmed in Hungary using a skilled Hungarian crew. The house is pretty-well trashed by film’s end and the body count is what you might expect. Each side of the dramatic argument sort of deserves both forgiveness and condemnation and the ending is more formulaic than what precedes it merits. The film’s overall effect is of admiration for skilled cinematic craft delivering an ethically-questionable product.

At Dendy, Hoyts, Capitol 6 and Limelight