The Bling Ring - review

Based on true events and directed by Sofia Coppola, The Bling Ring follows a group of high-school students as they burgle celebrity houses after following them on social media.

As new kid Marc aims to settle into his new school, he makes friends with Rebecca, a socialite whose intention in life is to party hard and get high rather than earn good grades, but when she takes him to a house which doesn’t belong to either of them and walks away with things, he doesn’t react in the normal way.

Not calling the police but instead enjoying the thrill and fitting in with the cool kids, soon Marc, Rebecca and their friends are breaking into celebrities houses every week after finding their whereabouts on the internet as well as their addresses.

Riding high on their hobby, the friends enjoy bragging about their hauls, but when security footage is released of them leaving a house, they soon get scared. As they lay low while the police struggle to identify the burglars, the gang can’t resist breaking into yet another house, but when they are finally identified and caught, they soon learn who their true friends are.

With the gang all ending up with jail sentences, Marc discovers Rebecca set him up by leaving the state to stay with her father knowing she wouldn’t be caught as quick, yet Nicolette manages to use her new found fame to further her career as a media sweetheart.

Although based on true events, it seemed quite far-fetched that anyone could just walk into a house, spend time going through things and walk out without a single alarm going off. I didn’t find this movie as fun as I thought it would be and was left disappointed.