Hello everyone,

I also read a french commentary from ecranlarge.com.

It says that it's a ordinary hostage movie, the actors and the filmmaker are doing a lot for nothing. The DTV is deserve.

Grabe : 2/5

Well the sentence is heavy :D, but it's just one opinion, we need few more to see what's going on.

hello friends! are we reading the same review? the first one I posted was good one i thought! I particularly like this line:

a couple of quirky surprises delivered by Cage. After all, how often do you hear a guy with a gun to his head ask "Do you know anything about the etymology of the word 'diamond'?"

I cannot wait!!

Lula Argante wrote:

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hello friends! are we reading the same review?

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I agree Lula!  The opening line of the review says it all!

"A home-invasion flick that grabs viewers by the throat and only stops squeezing long enough to wipe sweat from its palms, Trespass can't be accused of finesse or novelty -- or of being as big as the names on the marquee -- but there's little reason to think it won't sell a lot of popcorn for a weekend or two."

The review skews very positive and this is huge coming from the Hollywood Reporter!  The Oscars, if you will, of Film and Entertainment magazines.

Trespass has done an amazing job in building momentum!  All aboard!!!!

A wonderful and NICEly detailed TRESPASS review from Variety!

http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117946076/

Trespass

Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman star in the Joel Schumacher thriller 'Trespass.'

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Yet another intense thriller about an upscale family terrorized by violent home invaders, "Trespass" takes an old-school approach to unsettling auds, largely eschewing the sadism and nihilism that lately have been hallmarks of this subgenre. Helmer Joel Schumacher and a game cast headed by Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman do their damnedest to build and sustain suspense while trying, with some degree of success, to breathe fresh life into a formulaic, even generic scenario. Still, B.O. expectations are something less than lofty: Pic kicks off VOD and theatrical runs Oct. 14, with homevid release announced for Nov. 1.

Opening scenes briskly illuminate financial and familial tensions while introducing Kyle Miller (Cage), a fast-talking diamond dealer; Sarah (Kidman), his gorgeous architect wife; and Avery (Liana Liberato of David Schwimmer's "Trust"), their rebellious teenage daughter.

Even as Kyle wheels his Porche through the security gate and into the driveway of his ultra-expensive (and conspicuously unfinished) steel-and-glass modernist home, Kyle struggles to repress desperation and exude confidence while teleconferencing with potential clients and debt collectors.

Once inside the house -- which, very conveniently for plot purposes, is located in a secluded spot surrounded by a thick forest -- Kyle finds his wife and daughter arguing over whether Avery should attend a party with an uninhibited friend. Avery refuses to take no for an answer and slips out the back door, leaving her parents alone long enough to share a meaningful conversation about the emotional distance between them. Then bad guys disguised as cops arrive at their door, and the nightmare begins in earnest.

Much of "Trespass" is devoted to Kyle's frantic bouts of bargaining with the invaders' belligerently sarcastic leader, Elias (Ben Mendelsohn, "Animal Kingdom"), a tough but not unintelligent fellow who appears to know a great deal about the security system of Kyle's house and the likely contents of Kyle's safe.

Despite physical and verbal abuse, Kyle refuses to open that safe, fearing, with ample justification, that as soon as the intruders get what they want, they'll kill him, his wife and, after she returns unexpectedly, Avery. Cage is in fine form throughout "Trespass," especially during those stretches when Kyle -- sometimes shrewd, sometimes scared, always plotting his next counter-offer -- improvises one frantic negotiation after another.

What Kyle gives is nothing short of the sales pitch of a lifetime. Appropriately enough, Mendelsohn powerfully portrays Elias as the most unreasonably demanding customer the diamond dealer has ever encountered.

While working entirely within genre conventions and expectations, scripter Karl Gajdusek nonetheless manages to spring a few surprises while revealing character motivations, often suggesting that nothing, not even flashbacks, should be taken at face value. He also does a clever job of planting elements in the first act for ironic payoff in the third; some viewers may laugh out loud as soon as they realize why, late in the story, they're returning to a roadside location visited earlier.

Some of the dialogue is cringe-worthy banal or worse, and the actors can't do anything with the worst lines but shout them at the top of their lungs. Cage risks inspiring derisive giggles when he snarls, for reasons best left unexplained, "Your filthy lust invited them in!"

Overall, though, the perfs are pitched at the right emotional extremes. Kidman credibly conveys everything from bemused maternal concern to teary and trembling terror, and she also enhances the ambiguity of her scenes alone with Cam Gigandet, who's well cast as a seemingly sensitive intruder.

Production designer Nathan Amondson and ace lenser Andrzej Bartkowiak are of immeasurable assistance to Schumacher as the vet helmer contrives to make the sprawling Miller family home seem like the most claustrophobic place on earth.

Lady Trueheart wrote:

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That is a good review, the details givens are so tantalizing! Note that all commend Nic's performance. And I can't wait to see him snarl!

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 Tantalizing indeed Lady T! It is a great review from Variety and as you point out, Nic's performance is praised by all! I think you can tell from the trailer Just how much Nic brings to this character, intensity, ambiguity, in that uniquely NICish way... and I am very excited indeed because it feels to be a character unlike any he's played before!

wow, that's great!!

Rotten Tomates has spoken! lo!!

This review confuses me, it seems really postive, but then the last paragraph.

Love this part:

"crazy like a fox."

http://www.torontosun.com/2011/10/06/trespass-a-barking-mad-b-movie

Gina wrote:

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Lula Argante wrote:

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Rotten Tomates has spoken! lo!!

This review confuses me, it seems really postive, but then the last paragraph.

Love this part:

"crazy like a fox."

http://www.torontosun.com/2011/10/06/trespass-a-barking-mad-b-movie

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I agree Lula.  Actually, not just the last paragraph but at the beginning as well... the bit about:   "Trespass is a brisk, bracing B-movie that turned up at TIFF in September."  Rating a movie released in theaters as a "B-movie" is never good but they seem to like the movie in general.

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 For me the B-movie has taken on it's own cool status, perhaps a low budget or independent movie with it's own particualr feel, often pvong cash does not equal greatness. i think Drive Angry was referred to similarly, (poss because it was an exploitation (with hints or sexploitation?) movie) it seems to have become synonymous with cult classic!

think of Vincent Price / Roger Corman, the classic B movie! i have no idea on the budget for Trespass but even as a label in it's own right I don't see B movie as necessarily a negative comment, or even anythign t with iwith how enjoyable the film is (to me or anyone else!) even if it was intended as one!!