Review of Trespass (2011) by Stewart F — 17 Oct 2011
Trespass is a film that is neither good nor completely bad. It has a decent cast and has a director with a hit-or-miss reputation/record with Joel Schumacher (Tigerland, Phantom of the Opera, Batman & Robin).
This film is simply insignificent because it is unnecessary and you HAVE seen it before (I saw it two months ago ... at that time it was in Spanish and called Kidnapped). Why it was made is beyond me .
.. and I doubt others can answer that either. The movie stars Nicolas Cage (Leaving Las Vegas, Con Air, National Treasure) and Nicole Kidman (The Hours, The Others, Moulin Rouge) as an uber-rich married couple living in an exclusive development of fancy mansions with high-tech in-wall safes and high-dollar security systems.
They have a teenage daughter played by Trust's Liana Liberato who'd rather do anything than "hang" with her parents. Knowing that the house contains millions of dollars AND priceless diamonds, a group of thugs break-in to the house (one helped install the security system -- Cam Gigandet [Burlesque, Easy A, Priest]) to steal from the rich to make their drug-riddled lives rich.
The crooks here are a big mess ... and there are several double-crosses and possilbe lies and backstories told to confuse one another (this doesn't help the audience at all). The female deadbeat (every movie like this has one) was played convincinly-enough by "My Boys"'s Jordana Spiro which surprised me because of her previously squeaky-clean image.
The film becomes trying -- not because of the tried-out and tired-out material -- but because three-fourths of it is crying and screaming (literally). It is too much. It'd be unfair for me to say that they become unconvincing in their performances (as I've never experienced anything like this in my life); but I think the movie -- as ENTERTAINMENT -- should have had more story and less crying.
Some becomes quite predictable ... and well, I said you've seen it all before. It isn't terrible enough that I cannot forgive them this Trespass ...
This review of Trespass (2011) was written by Stewart F on 17 Oct 2011.
Trespass has generally received mixed reviews.
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