Quartile rating: 5.5/10 · 1 rating
Kyle and Sarah Miller have it all: a huge gated house on the water, fancy cars, and the potential for romance in their relationship. He's just back from a business trip and their teen daughter Avery is sneaking out to a party, when four thugs in security uniforms and ski masks stage a home invasion. They want what's in the safe: cash and diamonds. As Kyle stalls them, trying to negotiate for Sarah's freedom, the fault lines in Kyle and Sarah's marriage and the pasts of the four robbers come into play. Is there room here for heroism?
Trespass is a largely forgettable home-invasion thriller that squanders its premise and its cast (Nicolas Cage, Nicole Kidman). The plot relies on increasingly implausible twists and contrived revelations about the robbers' backstories and the marriage's cracks, never building genuine tension. The acting is erratic — Cage goes through his familiar manic shtick while Kidman is underused, and the supporting cast is broadly sketched. Cinematography is competent but unremarkable, with little visual flair to elevate the claustrophobic setting. The film offers nothing particularly distinctive in the crowded home-invasion genre; its twists feel recycled from better entries. The ending resolves messily without earning its attempted catharsis. Across the board, it's a below-to-middling effort that lands right around its mediocre reputation.