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TRESPASS Send This Review to a Friend
It happens frequently. Just when I think I’ve seen the worst film among recent releases another comes along to compete for the dubious title. ‘Trespass” is a boring, obnoxious story about thugs invading a home and terrorizing a family targeted for robbery. Apart from the unrelenting violence and ugliness, I couldn’t care a bit about the victims. “Kill ‘em already and get it over with,” kept going through my mind—the victims, not the perpetrators.
The director Joel Schumacher and screenwriter Karl Gajdusek are apparently attempting to show how a life-threatening event can bring a mess of a family together under duress. But the Miller family in this tale of woe isn’t the least bit appealing, despite the casting. Nicolas Cage plays Kyle, a businessman, who is up to some dishonesty in his own scheme of things. Nicole Kidman plays his wife, Sarah, who faces temptation from a sexy looking worker (Cam Gigandet) taking part in the remodeling of the expensive Miller home. The Millers have a rebellious teenage daughter, portrayed by Liana Liberto.
I am always partial to Kidman, but she is pretty much of a cipher here and is given absurd dialogue with which to work. The vicious intruders are a mean bunch, but also inept as they try to take in a haul in order to meet their obligations. Ben Mendelsohn plays Elias, the criminal a-hole in chief, and the would-be robbers have issues among themselves that complicate the story but don’t improve it. The film grows more and more unbelievable and hysterical by the minute. A Millennium Entertainment release.
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