Trespass
Trespass isn’t a bad film overall, but I can see why
this Joel Schumacher film didn’t receive a wide
release in North America. The film has
some strange characteristics that do not fit with rest of the movie, such as
flashbacks.
The movie is about a diamond dealer that finds him and
his family thrown into a tense situation due to a brutal home invasion.
Somewhere, there is a good hostage/heist movie trying to
claw its way out. Some poor decisions
force this simple premise into corny and foolish territory
The biggest problem with the movie is the decision to
put Nicolas Cage into
the leading role. Cage has been both
box office and critic poison for many years now. Putting him into your movie is guaranteed to harm the movie. Cage does his usual shouting and grunting
that has made him famous. While
Schumacher has toned down Cage’s outrageous mannerisms, Cage’s overacting does
bring you out of the movie sometimes.
Nicole Kidman is plain and boring in the role of the
unhappy wife. I was wondering if she
wasn’t just channeling her contempt with the script. However, Liana Liberato isn’t bad as the “troublesome teenage
daughter”, but it is the cliché character that makes that her performance
dull.
There are a couple of twists, but you won’t really care
about them because the movie doesn’t give a damn about the characters. And, to be fair, the movie borrows a bit too
much from the better-written film Panic Room. They even have the looming heavy robber character that takes it
too far written into the script. You
can throw in a staple gun weapon scene just like in the action movies from the
90s.
The clichés and the bland script bring this movie down
considerably, and that’s sad because there are some good moments.
Schumacher does an okay job, but it does have a direct
to DVD look to it. He doesn’t seem to
have the same intense sense of tension like Phone Booth. This flawed movie has some interesting
moments, but the poor script and bad acting by Cage keep this movie from being
good.
Grade: C-
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Shirt-less dude: “I'll make you totally forget about that Tom Cruise guy.”
Nicole:
“Legally, I can't say anything bad about my batshit crazy former
hubby, or his church will come after me.”
Shirt-less Dude:
“But you just said...”
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Nic Cage: "So, you're
saying I can star in Ghost Rider III: Ghost Projectile"
2 comments:
Nice commentary on this one! made me chuckle
thank you. It wasn't a bad movie, so it made it harder to make fun of and review.
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