PLOT SUMMARY: When four convicts break into her family home, Becky takes it upon herself to defeat them.
As soon as a girl turns into a teenager, everyone assumes the worst.
Oh no, she’s going to have mood swings. Oh no, she’s going to show so much attitude. It’s best to avoid her and leave her alone.
In a way, most of it is true. Yes, teenage girls do suddenly transform from sweet little angels into moody young women but that is because their transformation into adulthood comes fairly early and suddenly they have to juggle too many things.
Of course, there are some girls who are simply inherently mean and vindictive.
BECKY Movie Plot
Becky is being questioned by the police about an event that causes her to remember running into the woods.
The flashback shots of hers are interspersed with convicts in a prison, clearly up to something nefarious.
Becky is shown to be unaffected by whatever is going on at school and shows dull surprise when her father springs her early from school.
He says he has a surprise for her but Becky is uninterested. At the gas station, she sees people wearing green printed T-shirts for a family reunion.
Becky asks her father to get her some gummy worms and then goes outside to get emotional over a video on her phone of her mother and her. It is established that the mother has passed away from cancer.
She gets back into the car, still mad at her father, and eating her gummy worms. When she realizes where she’s going, she gets madder. She thinks her father is going to sell the family home, but he assures her that he’s changed his mind. She embraces him and gets out of the car to play with her two dogs.
Then she sees another car approach and her good humor is instantly blackened. It’s her father’s girlfriend Kayla and her son Ty.
Becky is sour and doesn’t bother welcoming them, preferring to play with one of her dogs.
Later at lunch, Becky’s father informs her that he’s planning to marry Kayla. Becky loses it and leaves in a huff, feeling betrayed that he moved on so quickly.
Her father follows her outside to talk to her, but Becky retreats to her fort with her dog.
Meanwhile, four convicts, including the leader who has a tattoo of a nazi symbol on his head, manage to escape.
They carjack a family, and one of the convicts, Apex, is shown reluctant to hurt the kids. But does follow through with his leader, Dominick’s orders.
They, along with Cole and Hamond, come upon the woods that lead them to the house where Becky is.
It is a bit fortunate that Becky went off in a mood, otherwise, she too would have been held at gunpoint. Sometimes being moody and arrogant pays...
The four convicts are after a key that is in the house somewhere.
Kayla and Ty hide in a room but Apex is sent to find them. He allows them to escape. But the duo are accosted by Cole and Hamond. They are looking for Becky and manage to fool the convicts into thinking Becky is a dog.
The two men shoot the dog.
This alerts Becky who witnesses this from her fort. Kayla and Ty are taken back home and Becky’s father is relieved to find that the Becky they are talking about having been killed was the dog and a ploy on Kayla’s part.
Dominick demands to know where the key is.
He shoots Kayla in the leg, but Becky’s father refuses to tell him everything.
Becky is back at the house and tries to retrieve her backpack from her room but fails when Dominick shows up. She manages to take her walkie-talkie and escape.
She communicates with Dominick through it who has found the backpack and the shiny sticker phone with Becky written in it. He knows Becky isn’t a dog but a girl.
He’s amused that Becky is making up lies about calling the police. He calls out her bluff by stating he has her phone. She tells him about being at the neighbors but Dominick knows the nearest neighbors are a mile and a half away and her toy walker-talkie couldn’t have such a long-range.
Becky knows she’s been caught and must find a way to save her father. Dominick asks her about the key and she tells him she doesn’t have it.
Except she does.
Dominick realizes he must take extreme measures and takes Becky’s father outside by the fire pit. He uses the roasting stick to torture him and coerces him into calling Becky to them.
Of course, he doesn’t. He tells Becky to run away as fast as she can and go to the neighbors to call the police.
Then he breaks free from his captors and heads into the woods, but before he can reach Becky, Dominick shoots him dead.
Becky screams and has little chance to grieve as Dominick tries to make a grab at her. She uses the key to stab him in the eye and make an escape.
Dominick’s eye pops out and he returns home bleeding.
Becky is sitting at the edge of the cliff, sobbing while holding onto the key.
She hears voices and runs back into the safety of her fort.
Once inside, she sees a painting her mother had made of the family and two dogs and realizes she wants revenge. The men had to pay for killing her father.
She puts on her chipmunk knit hat, tapes up her color pencils and turns her ruler into a shiv.
While Cole and Hamond separate to search for Becky, she pretends to be a scared little teen and tells Cole she’s ready to hand over the key. Then coming out from the top of the fort, she uses her crafted weapons to stab him through the neck. Her face is splattered with blood indicating that she has now turned violent.
At the house, Dominick reminds Apex of his pledged loyalty to him. Kayla asks him what the key opens and he gives a vague reply about how each race is meant to follow a particular set of rules and the modern society has blurred said rules and created chaos in the world.
Kayla is disgusted by his ideals but Dominick is distracted by the whereabouts of his men who are unable to capture a thirteen-year-old girl. Kayla reminds him that he made a mistake killing Becky’s only living parent and she is hardly even her guardian.
Dominick doesn’t realize she’s useless to him since she doesn’t even know about the key or can help him get the girl. He doesn’t kill her.
Meanwhile, Becky is setting up a Home Alone trap for Hamond. She uses a fishing line as a tripping wire and lures him to the docks. Hamond comes over, trips on the line and falls on the prepared plank with nails. But he isn’t dead yet.
Becky attacks him repeatedly with another plank with nails but Hamond proves to be tough competition. He tosses her over and she just about manages to get on the boat after pushing him in the lake.
Hamond barely composes himself before Becky reverses the boat and kills him with the blades.
BECKY Ending Explained with spoilers!
Apex is sent to search for Becky. He sees Diego and incapacitates him. When Becky emerges he tells her he has seen what she did to Cole and that there is no going back to the stains she has set on herself. She has given rise to her violent nature.
Becky doesn’t care and only wants revenge. Apex lets her go to make up for hurting the two kids earlier. Diego is also okay.
Becky finds her father still sprawled on the ground. She says her sorry and farewell, then takes his car keys. She uses the car alarm to lure Dominick out, but the minivan has Diego ready to attack.
Dominick barely pries himself away before being hit by Becky in the other car.
He recovers and attacks her and Becky realizes she had underestimated his strength. Apex comes over and pushes him aside reminding him he doesn’t want to hurt kids. Becky gets the lawnmower and while he’s arguing with Apex, is crushed by the lawnmower.
Apex tells Becky how he is happy to have saved her and sees it as an act of redemption. Becky doesn’t care that he’s helped her or not. She’s too far gone. She shoots him in the head.
While the cops arrive, Kayla and Ty approach her and sit and wait.
We are back to the opening scene where the officers are concerned that Becky isn’t admitting to killing the convicts when every piece of evidence points to her.
Becky smiles while playing with the key.
Seriously, what door does that key open and what is actually behind it?
With the key in her possession, will more Neo-nazi gangs look for her? Was the smile a challenge for anyone to try and get it from her? Or has she decided that her role is to kill now?
Maybe there will be a sequel and we will find out for sure.
Scare scale: 4/5
This movie is not too bad at all. However, lack of insight given about the key is very frustrating.
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