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Trespass (VOD/limited)
“‘Trespass‘ is a stupid movie, with even dumber characters, and an atrocious plot. It’s a pointless movie that does nothing to further the home invasion subgenre, and ultimately becomes a snoozer of a copycat that isn’t worth a second of your time.”
There’s no arguing the filmmaking talent behind Trespass, directed by Joel Schumacher, but what hits the screen is an embarrassingly clichéd home invasion thriller that doesn’t have a single drop of entertainment value.
The pic centers on a crafty business man (Nicolas Cage) who, along with his wife (Nicole Kidman) and daughter (Liana Liberato), are the victims of a home invasion. The intruders want Cage to open his safe, which holds hundreds of thousands of dollars and diamonds.
The first and foremost problem is that there truly is nothing at stake. The invaders aren’t threatening; all they do is spend the first 45 minutes screaming back and forth with Cage. There are no sexual advances on Kidman or Liberato, and none of the masked men/women physically assault Cage. They literally just throw spit at each other and make loud threats. An hour into the movie, one of the baddies tosses out a line that literally says it all: “ Let’s start over.” That is the point where the movie should have started. Things finally escalate, but by then it’s too little, too late.
Even more embarrassing is the jumbled third act that ends up playing like the “OC” skit on “SNL” (see below). And even worse of an offense are the onslaught of twists (if you can even call them that) that prompted me to exclaim “what a twist!” aloud on several occasions.
Trespass is a stupid movie, with even dumber characters, and an atrocious plot. It’s a pointless movie that does nothing to further the home invasion subgenre, and ultimately becomes a snoozer of a copycat that isn’t worth a second of your time.
After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.
You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!
Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.
Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”
“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.
She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”
Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.
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