Trespass

(2011)

Trespass is a home invasion thriller where a couple Kyle and Sarah Miller (Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman) are invaded by a group of masked bandits posing as police officers. The bandits want what is in Kyle's over-the-top safe and seeing as though he's a diamond dealer, it's pretty safe to assume there's diamonds and maybe some money. But, Kyle keeps stalling them and trying to make dealing, agitating the bandits. When Kyle finally opens the safe, it is completely empty, which sets off the bandits (led by Ben Mendelsohn and including Cam Gigandet, Dash Mihok and Jordana Spiro) and leads to a mad panic as they scramble to get anything they can. Also, Kyle and Sarah's teenage daughter Avery (Liana Liberato) has snuck out of the house to go to a party and has come home amidst the chaos. Over the night, all of the family's secrets will be unfurled (including that the family is not well off at all and is in heavy debt) as the situation gets more tense and the mad scramble for whatever of value can be found. Typical B-thriller with a surprisingly A-list cast and director which suggests somebody overshot somewhere, but the film ain't half bad. Cage is in form here, bizarrely trying to bargain his way out of everything to the point where he seems to want his own cut of the heist. Kidman is in a rare disposable role, which makes me wonder where her career's going (following on from her blink and you'll miss role in Just Go With It). Good to see Ben Mendelsohn get some Hollywood love again. If I do have a problem with the movie, it is the overall happy ending Hollywood-ness of it, hell, it's very similar to the Bruce Willis vehicle Hostage (also a pretty solid thriller). If this film was made in Europe, you would guarantee it would be a depressing, family members raped and murdered extravaganza ala Secuestrados (a film I'm still getting over...). Maybe somewhere in between would make Trespass a superior thriller instead of a passable timewaster.

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