Trespass 2011

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: One of those movies that an audience knows is terrible the minute it starts. Read more

Glenn Kenny, MSN Movies: Trespass is still something of a dog... Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: A belabored, often laughable melee of sound, fury and unnecessarily frenzied cinematography in which everyone yells, screams and threatens while any sense of dread quickly drains away. Read more

Keith Uhlich, Time Out: Trespass is assembly-line product through and through -- unabashedly mediocre and instantly forgettable. A Joel Schumacher joint, in other words. Read more

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: You wonder what on earth inspired Cage and Kidman to sign on for this dreck, as you ponder how long Schumacher can possibly string this out. Read more

Nathan Rabin, AV Club: Trespass begins loopy and mounts in craziness until it's frothing-at-the-mouth insane. Read more

John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter: A home-invasion flick that grabs viewers by the throat and only stops squeezing long enough to wipe sweat from its palms... Read more

Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: In the end, "Trespass" steps all over its own genre strengths. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Schumacher makes it all look good - he can't help himself - but somehow that just makes it nastier. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Is "Trespass" the moment when we give up, and accept the path Nic Cage has chosen for himself? Or should we just keep averting our eyes, until he's done cashing easy checks? Read more

Kyle Smith, New York Post: I wished a bottle would roll by so I could stick an S.O.S. in it. Read more

Rex Reed, New York Observer: Something odd is happening to Mr. Cage's face. His skin is yellow, his cheeks are swollen, and his head is too big for his body. Read more

Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: An astoundingly senseless thriller featuring Nicolas Cage, Nicole Kidman, and a band of masked goons. (The word thriller is used very loosely.) Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: It's sloppy and obvious, with curves so un-serpentine they might as well be straightaways Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: A home invasion thriller that may set a record for the number of times the characters point loaded pistols at one another's heads. Read more

Dave Daley, Salon.com: Can someone explain what Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman are doing in a chaotic and sadistic home-invasion thriller, shot in digital colors so radioactive they appear to have leaked out of the Fukushima nuclear plant? Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: It's a strange variety of entertainment that hooks you throughout and then leaves you nothing but glad that it's over. Read more

Stephen Cole, Globe and Mail: Though hardly indispensable, Trespass is an agreeable time-waster distinguished by one good performance and enough clever twists to keep you, if not on the edge of your seat, at least happily alert, guessing along with the plot. Read more

Leah Rozen, TheWrap: [A] putrefying piece of genre junk. Read more

Trevor Johnston, Time Out: As terrible movies go, it's not unentertaining - once you surrender to its trashmeister idiocy. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: It simply aims to keep us on the proverbial seat edge, and it mostly succeeds, even if Gajdusek's twist-filled script has more turnovers than a closely fought football game. Read more

Joe Leydon, Variety: 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 Read more

Melissa Anderson, Village Voice: First-time screenwriter Karl Gajdusek's attempts at making timely observations about the dangers of living beyond one's means are drowned out by the howlers coming out of the characters' mouths. Read more