Trespass

It´s amazing how many movie Nicholas Cage makes in a year. This year he have 3 films coming out, and one more wich already hit the screen in february. After all the gossip around Cage´s tax problems, and that he had to sell several houses, media made a big storm about this. Not that i personally care, but for mr Cage it must have been annoying. Either way, he seems to get enough work to survive. With Trespass we see classic director Joel Schumacher back on track, and with Nicholas Cage and Nicole Kidman, you can´t help to think this looks good on paper indeed. Question is, will Trespass make me applaude infront of the big screen, or is Schumacher lost since his masterpiece Falling Down?

Kyle Miller ( Nicholas Cage ) is a successfull buisnessman, living with his wife Sarah ( Nicole Kidman ) and his teenage daughter Avery ( Liana Liberato ). Avery want´s to go to a party, but is not allowed by her parents. In secret, she escapes their mansion home, and meet her friend Kendra ( Emily Meade ). As they head off to the party, Kyle and Sarah have visitors at home. Police officers say they are informing neighbours about burglars. Just when Kyle opens, a group of criminals storm their mansion, and take them as hostage. The gang leades Elias ( Ben Mendelsohn tell Kyle and Sarah, that he and his gang members have been spying on them for a while. They know there is money in this house, as well as diamonds. Avery leaves the party, and head back home. Not knowing what has happened she is also taken hostage. Now, the family has to do everything they can to survive.

If you did not know Tresspass bombed at the box office, now you know, In fact, it did so bad that it was one of 2011 biggest box office flops. And that must hurt for Joel Schumacher, with such big movie stars. Now, personally i don´t think this is awful. The problem is we have seen this so many times before, it´s hard to care. If there was some kind of orginilaity in the storyline, it might have been more interesting. Now we get basically the same kind of story, wich has been made over and over again. Trespass is a perfect example of where Hollywood is today, original stories are hard to find, and the easiest way to handle the situation, is to do something that we have seen before. It´s a shame, i really love Joel Schumacher´s fantastic movie Falling Down from 1993, it´s one of those movies you can´t compare many others with, it´s original and very well made. Now, he seems to care less. Maybe he just have not found something good to work on at the moment, let´s hope so. Nicholas Cage and Nicole Kidman still can deliver some decent scenes, but far away from their top quality. Trespass might fit well as a tea pleaser, on a rainy night at your grandparents house, but apart from that, this is nothing you will remember.

Rating: DD