Dust Bunny Movie Review

Dust Bunny (2025)

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Written by: Bryan Fuller 
Directed by: Bryan Fuller
Starring: Mads Mikkelsen, Sophie Sloan, Sheila Atim, David Dastmalchian, Sigourney Weaver
Rated: PG-13
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Plot
An orphaned eight-year-old hires her hit man neighbor to protect her from the monster under her bed.

Verdict
This wants to be stylish and cool, but it doesn't quite get there.  Initially it's the question of what's reality and imagination, but that's not enough. This keeps complicating the situation. Reality seems nearly as outrageous as imagination towards the end. The core relationshiop is engaging;  a hit man saving a girl that needs help, it's very The Professional (1994). With this, we don't really know what they're fighting, and the conclusion is underwhelming.
Skip it.

Review
While Aurora (Sophie Sloan) is terrified of the dust bunny under her bed, we don't know if it's real or her imagination. Her parents dismiss her terror, but we see it acting sentient. Is Aurora in danger or is her imagination over active?

Mads Mikkelsen, Sophie Sloan play Resident 5B, Aurora

Unable to sleep, she sees her neighbor, Resident 5B (Mads Mikkelsen) leaving his apartment late at night. Intrigued, she follows him to Chinatown. He's attacked by a gang wearing a dragon costume, but she sees a man slaying a dragon. Aurora believes that he can slay the monster under her bed, drafting a contract and giving him all of her money.

Resident 5B wonders what she knows about him and what really happened in her apartment. He believes assassins killed her parents under the impression it was his residence. Now he feels responsible for her, agreeing to help. Resident 5B's handler Laverne (Sigourney Weaver) advises him to eliminate the child since she's a witness to his deeds. I wasn't sure where reality and imagination begin and end. We've seen this monster under her bed, but that could just as well be her imagination running wild. We never see her parents die. It's plausible they were killed by a hit man. Resident 5B certainly thinks that's what happened. He doesn't believe her story that touching the floor will summon a monster.

Mads Mikkelsen, Sigourney Weaver play Resident 5B, Laverne

That's the point where we discover that not only is a team of killers after Aurora, the FBI is also monitoring her. That's in addition to her assassin neighbor and the monster under her bed. This movie is trying to do too much. It's this fantastical world that's a little too vague. We get the attempt at unique characters, bu they don't have a goal. Survive doesn't cut it.

The bunny is real, and it defeats the FBI and assassins. Resident 5B goes head to head against it. The ending is just that. It's not much more than the movie just cutting off. What was this monster? Why? We'll never know. It's not much more than a macguffin, and I hoped for some kind of answer or explanation.