Trespass - review

Businessman Nicolas Cage opens this tense and clever thriller by negotiating a deal for diamonds on the phone talking ten to the dozen whilst driving and then bypasses his wife Nicole Kidman as she works on dinner in the kitchen as he arrives home. Heading straight for his office, Kyle continues to work his sales magic until he’s successful and only then does he acknowledge his wife Sarah.

As Sarah argues with daughter Avery about going to a party, Kyle informs her he’s heading back out to work on another deal while Avery sneaks out of her bedroom window against her parents’ knowledge and heads out to meet up with a friend.

With Sarah trying to catch a moment of her husband’s attention, they are interrupted by a call on the intercom from the police asking to enter the house to talk about recent robberies in the area, but as Kyle lets down the house defences, they are ambushed by 4 masked and armed robbers whose intention is to leave with money and the diamonds they believe Kyle has in his possession.

As the couple are held hostage it becomes clear that the aim of the robbery is to pay for a drug deal gone wrong, but as Kyle continues to refuse to open the safe the couple discover a trail of betrayal and deceit as the robbers taunt them in an attempt to wear them down. But as tempers flare between the gang the situation becomes more hostile as it turns out Kyle & Sarah aren’t the only people who haven’t been honest.

I’m a big fan of Nicolas Cage and willing to give any movie a try, so when I saw a trailer for this movie it grabbed my attention and I sat down to watch it later that evening. I don’t enjoy violence and a lot of swearing, but despite the amount in the movie, I felt it was justified and relevant to the storyline.

For a movie I’d never heard of and watched off the cuff, I enjoyed it, but don’t feel it’s a movie you’d watch more than once.