What elevates Homefront above the average straight-to-DVD actioner is how it builds suspense from character and consequence rather than spectacle alone. The screenplay, adapted from Chuck Logan’s novel, layers domestic detail with the ever-present possibility of rupture. Scenes of neighborly banter, PTA meetings and grocery-store runs are threaded through the narrative like calm before a storm, each ordinary moment made precarious by the knowledge that Broker’s capacity for violence is only a hairline away from being unleashed.