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TRESPASS (2011)Movie Reviews
Thriller about an upper class family who must defend themselves when violent intruders invade their highly secure home. Cast:Nicolas Cage, Nicole Kidman, Ben Mendelsohn, Liana LiberatoDirector:Joel SchumacherRelease Date:October 14, 2011DVD Release:November 1, 2011From:Millenium EntertainmentRating:RLength:1 hr. 25 min.
Trespass (2011) played in key cities to weak reviews. • Wesley Morris wrote in the Boston Globe, "...one of those movies that an audience knows is terrible the minute it starts.... 'Trespass' is 91 minutes of salt in a wound." • And Stephen Cole wrote in the Toronto Globe & Mail, "An unapologetic B-movie that comes with lots of flashbacks, gunplay and shouting, it can easily be savoured and forgotten inside 90 minutes." More Reviews Below...
Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: MODERATE(cg) "...may set a record for the number of times the characters point loaded pistols at one another... First we're afraid somebody will get shot. Then we're afraid nobody will be."(See all of Roger Ebert's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 742 words, 10/14/11
Glenn Kenny, MSN Movies: POOR(cg) "...a dog, although it does provide some nasty laughs insofar as it features once Big Movie Stars going through the paces of cheapie quasi grindhouse thrillers."(See all of Glenn Kenny's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 522 words, 10/12/11
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: POOR(cg) "Schumacher might have wanted to comment on contemporary American values.... no one acts in ways remotely connected to human behavior..."(See all of Elizabeth Weitzman's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 264 words, 10/14/11
Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times/Chicago Tribune: FAIR "...does an efficient enough job setting up screenwriter Karl Gajdusek's scenario.... [but] in the end, 'Trespass' steps all over its own genre strengths."(See all of Robert Abele's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 179 words, 10/14/11
Kyle Smith, New York Post: POOR(cg) "Plodding forth with ever more insistent vulgarity and cliché... Cage gets to mutter the line, 'I'm worth more dead than alive' -- Really? More than zero?"(See all of Kyle Smith's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 530 words, 10/14/11
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: MODERATE(cg) "...may set a record for the number of times the characters point loaded pistols at one another... First we're afraid somebody will get shot. Then we're afraid nobody will be."(See all of Roger Ebert's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 742 words, 10/14/11
Melissa Anderson, Village Voice/LA Weekly: WEAK "A home-invasion movie as instantly forgettable as its title... not without disturbing images: namely, Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman as spouses."(See all of Melissa Anderson's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 183 words, 10/12/11
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: GOOD (NOT GREAT)(cg) "...aims to keep us on the proverbial seat edge, and it mostly succeeds, even if Karl Gajdusek's twist-filled script has more turnovers than a closely fought football game."(See all of Peter Howell's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 535 words, 10/07/11
Stephen Cole, Toronto Globe & Mail: GOOD (NOT GREAT)(cg) "An unapologetic B-movie that comes with lots of flashbacks, gunplay and shouting, it can easily be savoured and forgotten inside 90 minutes."(See all of Stephen Cole's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 526 words, 10/07/11
Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: WEAK(cg) "Joel Schumacher directs like he's on amyl nitrite, flinging the camera around the rooms of his gargantuan set to establish a tone of frantic tension."(See all of Norman Wilner's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 239 words, 10/13/11
KEY CITIES (5 Reviews)
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: POOR(cg) "...an astoundingly senseless thriller featuring Nicolas Cage, Nicole Kidman, and a band of masked goons. (The word thriller is used very loosely.)"(See all of Steven Rea's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 430 words, 10/14/11
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: MODERATE(cg) "...effective while it lasts but soon forgotten... It's a strange variety of entertainment that hooks you throughout and then leaves you nothing but glad that it's over."(See all of Mick LaSalle's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 278 words, 10/14/11
Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times: WEAK(cg) " 'Man, you could have saved us all a lot of aggravation,' says one of the robbers, late in the film... He's not kidding; 90 minutes never seemed so long."(See all of Moira Macdonald's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 376 words, 10/14/11
ALTERNATIVE/INDIE PRESS (7 Reviews)
Melissa Anderson, Village Voice/LA Weekly: WEAK "A home-invasion movie as instantly forgettable as its title... not without disturbing images: namely, Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman as spouses."(See all of Melissa Anderson's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 183 words, 10/12/11
Tom Meek, Boston Phoenix: WEAK(cg) "...the dog-eared premise doesn't sparkle... Addled by uninspired dialogue and hammy plot twists... the litany of tired plot devices will make you, too, feel like a hostage."(See all of Tom Meek's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 156 words, 10/13/11
Nathan Rabin, AV Club: GOOD (NOT GREAT)(cg) "...mounts in craziness until it's frothing-at-the-mouth... It's hard to sustain that level of inspired lunacy over the course of 90 minutes, but 'Trespass' is up to the challenge."(See all of Nathan Rabin's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 381 words, 10/13/11
R. Kurt Osenlund, Slant: POOR(cg) "Someone is always freaking out in 'Trespass,' be it Cage, on whom Schumacher torturously zooms in during sweaty, single-take tirades, or Cam Gigandet..."(See all of R. Kurt Osenlund's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 870 words, 10/10/11
Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: WEAK(cg) "Joel Schumacher directs like he's on amyl nitrite, flinging the camera around the rooms of his gargantuan set to establish a tone of frantic tension."(See all of Norman Wilner's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 239 words, 10/13/11
Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: FAIR "...does an efficient enough job setting up screenwriter Karl Gajdusek's scenario.... [but] in the end, 'Trespass' steps all over its own genre strengths."(See all of Robert Abele's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 179 words, 10/14/11
Dave Daley, Salon: POOR "...almost exactly like a late-'90s straight-to-video release... a knockoff Hollywood thriller, with its A-minus stars and its pretense of psychological intensity."(See all of Dave Daley's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 1,057 words, 10/13/11
MOVIE INDUSTRY (4 Reviews)
Joe Leydon, Daily Variety: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...takes an old-school approach to unsettling auds, largely eschewing the sadism and nihilism that lately have been hallmarks of this subgenre."(See all of Joe Leydon's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 762 words, 09/13/11
John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...can't be accused of finesse or novelty... [but] there's enough guilty pleasure here to hold the attention of most viewers for whom 'Trespass' sounds like fun..."(See all of John DeFore's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 533 words, 09/12/11
Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: FAIR "...does an efficient enough job setting up screenwriter Karl Gajdusek's scenario.... [but] in the end, 'Trespass' steps all over its own genre strengths."(See all of Robert Abele's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 179 words, 10/14/11
17.4 Percentage Points Average Difference Between Reviews (Norm is 18.4pp; <18.4pp = More Consistent; >18.4pp = More Mixed)
Trespass (2011)'s reviews are separated by an average 17.4 percentage points. The norm for this measure is 18.4 percentage points. Less than 18.4 indicates more consistent reviews; greater than 18.4 indicates more mixed reviews. In the chart below, each dot represents a review, with the dots at the top more positive than the dots at the bottom. From left to right, the dots represent reviews in big, bigger and biggest publications. Roll over each dot for more detail.
Trespass (2011) (25 reviews) Roll over dots for each review
Coverage:Trespass (2011)'s reviews cover 25.8% of potential readers (average is 67.9%). Volume:The film's reviews total 12,240 words involume (average is 20,172 words). Length:The film's reviews average 490 words in length (the norm is 517 words).
Reviews Broke 50.2 Hours Before Release (Norm is 1.2 Release)
Trespass (2011)'s reviews on average broke 50.2 hours before opening. Norm for this measure is 1.2 hours before. The chart below shows reviews on opening day and the days before and after opening; the left side is earlier and the right side is later. The red bars extending above the horizontal mid-line represent more positive reviews, and the red bars extending below represent more negative reviews. The white space/red bar in the middle is Trespass (2011)'s opening day. Click on any bar for a list of the reviews for that day.
Trespass (2011) (25 reviews, click on bars for reviews)
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