The premise and the first part of the movie was interesting and promising. Even though it was too long, which made the movie itself longer than it should be.
The middle part was kinda okay.
But the third part of the movie ruined it all, at least for me. It's full of banality, cliche and weird feelings. This movie is obviously not for the kids because of all the violence and blood, but at the same time the third part of it looks so plain stupid like it's made for the kids, Home Alone style.
Also, the whole family are just horrible human beings, plain disgusting rich worms. And yet, nothing interesting comes out of that.
And the weirdest feeling I got is from that little black girl, whatever her name was. She pulls Home Alone stuff, so comparing to the original begs. [spoiler]Kevin was first frightened of the thieves, then mans up, decides to protect his home and does half a day preparing. But not the girl. She's 7 or something, but already strong, independent and super smart. Lots of bad guys took her home, killed lots of people - and she's not even scared at all. She makes Home Alone style traps in 5 seconds, mangles and kills people and not even bothered with this. When Santa comes in, she says "it was so much fun!". And bad guys couldn't even find her, like she's very far and unreachable, even though she just ran up the attic and left the ladder down.[/spoiler]
If you wannna see cool old rough Santa and some blood better watch Fatman with Mel Gibson.