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An average movie
Posted : 10 years, 2 months ago on 14 February 2014 10:27
Honestly, I wasn’t expecting much from this flick but I always had a weak spot for Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman so I thought I might as well give it a try. Well, it wasn’t really good, I’m afraid and it was another disappointing feature directed by Joel Schumacher. Right now, I have seen 20 movies directed by this guy but most of them were rather underwhelming and even if this movie might not be one of his worst, it was still pretty damned average. I mean, basically you get Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman held hostage in their house after 10 minutes and the first thing you ask yourself is how are they are going to keep this up for another 80 minutes? Well, not very well, that’s for sure. Basically, you have the bad guys screaming usually at Cage and sometimes at Kidman and threatening them with a gun and they kept repeat this endlessly. At some point, you had Nicolas Cage trying to outsmart them and, finally, there was a new dynamic in the story but it was just for a very short moment and they got back to the same tiresome routine I explained above. The number of twists was quite huge as well and, at some point, it seriously got on my nerves. To conclude, I think I might be generous with my rating here, the whole thing is pretty weak and I don’t think it is really worth a look.
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Trespass review
Posted : 12 years, 5 months ago on 30 October 2011 02:31
A thrilling drama, story of a family living in mansion, everything seems to be so perfect until the night the masked man broke in to find the fortune they are looking for. A gruesome tale of being hostage for money, deception and lies. A treat to watch.
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Ensemble cast wasted by lazy filmmaking
Posted : 12 years, 6 months ago on 21 October 2011 04:22
As they're held for ransom, a husband and wife's predicament grows more dire amid the discovery of betrayal and deception.
Nicolas Cage is uptight businessman Kyle Miller. co-starring are Nicole Kidman as his wife Sarah; a woman with a mysterious past, and Cam Gigandet as one of the disguised burglars. Trailers can be quite deceiving as I've not too long ago come to realize. With 'Trespass', they are dead on, if not even a bit worse. If I may be so critical, the last preview I witnessed for this film had to be one of the worst I had ever seen. You see Nic Cage frantically yelling and screaming for fear, as his wife (Kidman) is seen held hostage by multiple masked trespassers. It's so cheesy I just had to laugh, and not in a good way. I asked myself how on earth it was to be theatrically released. Much to my surprise, it did.
Mostly known for creating sub-par if not horrible motion pictures, (at least to the masses, not to me) Joel Schumacher re-acquaints himself with his '8mm' star Nicolas Cage. This time placing him in an almost opposite role. Cage is a jewelry salesman. He travels wherever necessary in order to sell the expensive items, including having to evade his wife Sarah multiple times. It's clear right from the start that Kyle is a predominate businessman, and places his career on a much higher scale than that of his family. Though his attitude is mainly very restricted and secretive, Kyle still shows signs of love towards his wife and daughter, just not sporadically. It is also quite evident that Kyle is hiding something, and the viewers will probably notice that right off the bat. I found the casting for this movie a bit mixed-up. Nicole Kidman seems lost nearly the whole time as the sex-deprived wife, and really is the weakest member in 'Trespass'' ensemble. I've seen her character portrayed with better actresses in many other films, and just couldn't really understand the meaning of her role. She was dry and nearly emotionless, with the exception of a few very "bleh" scenes. I always love Nic Cage, no matter what role he decides to tackle. But I found him quite bad in 'Trespass'. His acting chops are not put on full display, as he's unimpassioned throughout the full 90 minutes. I still didn't full-on hate him here, but it's definitely his worst gig. Also starring as a pill-popping intruder is Cam Gigandet. I saw him in 'Never Back Down' and honestly thought he did quite an impressive job. With his role in 'Trespass', he really isn't required to do a whole lot, and kind of just nonchalantly crawls to the finish line. I believe he's a very talented actor, but he was clearly miscast here, and I don't put all the blame on him, but to the casting director. The bright spot to the cast is Elias; one of the few trespassers, and played by Ben Mendelsohn. Again, a cast member who should've/could've gone for a better role, not just a stereotypical throw-in. For his full-fledged acting range see 'Animal Kingdom'.
What Shumacher attempts to do with 'Trespass' simply does not work. He re-surfaces an already worn-out sub-genre and attempts to trick the audience into thinking it's something different. 'Hostage' and 'Firewall' have been there and done that, and were a tad bit more watchable than 'Trespass'. If you've seen the above mentioned films, you've seen this. There are other movies that follow the same theme, but I won't go into those right now. Every scene in 'Trespass' is lazy, predictable and dry. The so called "intense" sequences of violence and terror are actually quite the opposite. You will indeed laugh at the awful attempts at suspense, 95 percent of which fall completely flat. The one (maybe two) scenes I enjoyed had absolutely nothing to do with action or suspense, but rather the couple of reactions from Kyle's face when secrets are revealed.
EVERYTHING in 'Trespass' is formulaic, no one will be surprised at the clumsy conclusion, but instead yell at the screen for pure stupidity reasons. Most may not even make it that far. I'm in complete awe that people continue dishing out nearly identical, unoriginal piles of dirt, and get credit for it. What has modern-day film-making come to?
3.6/10
Nicolas Cage is uptight businessman Kyle Miller. co-starring are Nicole Kidman as his wife Sarah; a woman with a mysterious past, and Cam Gigandet as one of the disguised burglars. Trailers can be quite deceiving as I've not too long ago come to realize. With 'Trespass', they are dead on, if not even a bit worse. If I may be so critical, the last preview I witnessed for this film had to be one of the worst I had ever seen. You see Nic Cage frantically yelling and screaming for fear, as his wife (Kidman) is seen held hostage by multiple masked trespassers. It's so cheesy I just had to laugh, and not in a good way. I asked myself how on earth it was to be theatrically released. Much to my surprise, it did.
Mostly known for creating sub-par if not horrible motion pictures, (at least to the masses, not to me) Joel Schumacher re-acquaints himself with his '8mm' star Nicolas Cage. This time placing him in an almost opposite role. Cage is a jewelry salesman. He travels wherever necessary in order to sell the expensive items, including having to evade his wife Sarah multiple times. It's clear right from the start that Kyle is a predominate businessman, and places his career on a much higher scale than that of his family. Though his attitude is mainly very restricted and secretive, Kyle still shows signs of love towards his wife and daughter, just not sporadically. It is also quite evident that Kyle is hiding something, and the viewers will probably notice that right off the bat. I found the casting for this movie a bit mixed-up. Nicole Kidman seems lost nearly the whole time as the sex-deprived wife, and really is the weakest member in 'Trespass'' ensemble. I've seen her character portrayed with better actresses in many other films, and just couldn't really understand the meaning of her role. She was dry and nearly emotionless, with the exception of a few very "bleh" scenes. I always love Nic Cage, no matter what role he decides to tackle. But I found him quite bad in 'Trespass'. His acting chops are not put on full display, as he's unimpassioned throughout the full 90 minutes. I still didn't full-on hate him here, but it's definitely his worst gig. Also starring as a pill-popping intruder is Cam Gigandet. I saw him in 'Never Back Down' and honestly thought he did quite an impressive job. With his role in 'Trespass', he really isn't required to do a whole lot, and kind of just nonchalantly crawls to the finish line. I believe he's a very talented actor, but he was clearly miscast here, and I don't put all the blame on him, but to the casting director. The bright spot to the cast is Elias; one of the few trespassers, and played by Ben Mendelsohn. Again, a cast member who should've/could've gone for a better role, not just a stereotypical throw-in. For his full-fledged acting range see 'Animal Kingdom'.
What Shumacher attempts to do with 'Trespass' simply does not work. He re-surfaces an already worn-out sub-genre and attempts to trick the audience into thinking it's something different. 'Hostage' and 'Firewall' have been there and done that, and were a tad bit more watchable than 'Trespass'. If you've seen the above mentioned films, you've seen this. There are other movies that follow the same theme, but I won't go into those right now. Every scene in 'Trespass' is lazy, predictable and dry. The so called "intense" sequences of violence and terror are actually quite the opposite. You will indeed laugh at the awful attempts at suspense, 95 percent of which fall completely flat. The one (maybe two) scenes I enjoyed had absolutely nothing to do with action or suspense, but rather the couple of reactions from Kyle's face when secrets are revealed.
EVERYTHING in 'Trespass' is formulaic, no one will be surprised at the clumsy conclusion, but instead yell at the screen for pure stupidity reasons. Most may not even make it that far. I'm in complete awe that people continue dishing out nearly identical, unoriginal piles of dirt, and get credit for it. What has modern-day film-making come to?
3.6/10
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