OK, here's a really, really stupid premise. A young woman and her young brother are trapped inside their house with a tiger. Yep, you read that right, a freakin' tiger. That's the plot of direct to DVD thriller Burning Bright starring Briana (Step Up 2) Evigan. Of course the script writers could just leave it like that so they added some ingredients to spice things up and to help make that ridiculous premise make sense. So we get an evil stepfather (to place the hungry critter in the house), a hurricane outside (giving an excuse for the house to be boarded up), and an autistic brother for our heroine (so they can keep getting into needless encounters with the large kitty.)
Despite such a daft set up, it's executed with an understanding of dramatic tension and the leads do well to convey terror when confronted with an actual, living and breathing wild cat (instead of a shit CGI one). Ignore the bollocks family theatrics and just sit back and enjoy the game of cat and mouse (sorry that's cat and autistic kid). It's not terrible and it holds your attention, and sometimes, that's all you want from a direct to DVD feature film.
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