Villains-- My take on the movie with spoilers!

PLOT SUMMARY: Mickey and Jules are amateur criminals who break into a home to steal a car only to find the owners have a dark secret in their basement.

The concept of villainy is to be extremely wicked, have sinister intentions, think of only hurting others, and get what you want no matter what it costs.

The movie Villains shows us that a single criminal act doesn’t label you as a villain. In fact, I’m not sure whether the title fitted any of the characters.

VILLAINS Movie Plot 

The story is about Mickey and Jules, two amateur criminals who just want to get to Florida. Blue beaches, golden sands, hundreds of seashells...yes, their dream is to live on the beaches and make a living selling seashell.

The only way they can get there is by resorting to holding up a gas station. They just about manage to steal some cash and runaway in a car when they find out they’ve run out of gas.

Yes, they were at the gas station store but forgot to steal gas.

Jules manages to calm down a panicky Mickey and they find a house with a car parked visibly in the garage.

They break-in, start eating the food they find, all the while looking for the car keys. The only place left to look is the basement.

When the duo goes down, they are shocked to discover a girl chained in the basement.

Mickey wants to leave but Jules is adamant. They have to help the girl. Reluctantly, her boyfriend goes upstairs to find anything he can use to break or pick the lock.

That’s when they turn to find the homeowners watching them quietly. Mickey, brandishing a butter knife is no threat for the husband who manages to convince the couple to talk.

The wife, Gloria, is cradling an infant even though she looks like she must be in her fifties. Something seems off...

The husband offers them a deal to leave without questions and the little girl in the basement.

Mickey gives a counter-offer, they will take the girl and not report the couple for kidnapping a child.

The couple takes the homeowners downstairs at gunpoint, but the little girl ruins it all by biting Mickey’s hand. He is hit on the head.

When he awakens, he finds Gloria wearing a wig and a sexy outfit.

She dances for him but Mickey doesn’t find her attractive much to her disappointment.

In the basement, Jules is all tied up and keeps trying to get the girl to talk. The girl seems content in just sitting there, playing with her toys and keeping an eye on Jules.

Upstairs, Mickey tries to get on Gloria’s good side who then removes his handcuffs. He pushes her aside and rushes out, only to be shot in the leg by Gloria’s husband who is upset that he made his wife cry.

Mickey is brought down to the basement and cuffed with Jules. Luckily, she has a tongue piercing, which Mickey uses to set Jules free. When it is her turn, she accidentally breaks the pin.

Mickey convinces Jules to go without him as he can’t walk anyway. The girl gestures to the laundry chute which Jules climbs. She finds herself in the nursery and realizes the baby Gloria was holding was actually a ceramic doll.

Downstairs, the couple is upset when they don’t find Jules. Mickey tells them she’ll bring the police with her if he doesn’t show up to their meeting place within an hour.

The couple decides to let them go, but Jules believes that they are going to kill her boyfriend and shows up at the staircase, threatening to smash the doll.

The husband shoots at Jules who ducks but lets go of the doll who smashes into smithereens.

The homeowners are now too upset to let them go. They tie them up in dining chairs while Gloria bakes a feast, apparently her way of coping with a great loss which was her imaginary baby.

The husband reveals that Gloria couldn’t conceive so he brought the girl to fill the empty place in her heart. But the girl just reminded her that Gloria couldn’t be a mother and she wanted to do away with her. The husband couldn’t do that so they compromised on the girl staying in the basement, chained so that she doesn’t come up and upset Gloria.

VILLAINS Ending Explained with Spoilers! 

The couple is misled into eating the meal and being promised of being released. But the food is laced with all the drugs the couple was carrying with them and they fall unconscious.

Just then a police officer shows up, asking about the abandoned car that belongs to the couple. The husband tries his best to play dumb but the officer notices that the front door was broken into.

Gloria catches on that they might be caught, so she hides the couple in the gym.

Jules awakens to find that the only way out is to take more drugs that will awaken them. She manages to crawl and take some, then puts some near her boyfriend’s nose and makes him breathe it in.

The husband upstairs manages to convince the officer to leave. Jules throws a boot out the window and the married couple believe that the couple has escaped.

But they are right there in the house, saving the girl. Mickey apologizes to her for throwing insults at her and only then does the girl move. They find the car and get into it.

Meanwhile, Gloria and her husband decide they don’t care about the girl or the couple and they should just leave and start life anew. But when they get back, the husband takes one look at Mickey in his car and loses it.

He starts shooting while Mickey rams into him with his car.

Mickey has been shot in the chest and dies. The husband is injured badly but as he tries to get up, Jules shoots him in the head.

Gloria comes out of the house with a packed suitcase and behaves abnormally when she sees her dead husband.

Jules and the girl leave, hitching a ride to Florida. Once there, they live on the beach, selling seashells.

The movie had some witty moments and has you question who the villain was in this?

Gloria’s husband was just trying to keep her happy and doing whatever she asked for. To the point, he was ready to leave his house and every belonging to start a new life with her. Everything else was just cardboard according to him.

Mickey and Jules just wanted to leave a normal life but in order to do that, they had to resort to crime to get to their dream place. In the end, they do try to help the little girl.

That leaves Gloria. Why was she trying to entice Mickey? Her husband didn’t try to seduce Jules. How was she okay with chaining up a girl in the basement? How was it that she kept asking her husband to make sacrifices for her?

She was the villain in all of this.

Scare scale: 3.5/5