Trance (2013)
Average Rating: 6.5/10
Reviews Counted: 160
Fresh: 109 | Rotten: 51
As stylish as ever, director Danny Boyle seems to be treading water with the surprisingly thinly written Trance -- but for fans of Boyle's work, it should still prove a trippily entertaining distraction.
Average Rating: 6/10
Critic Reviews: 35
Fresh: 19 | Rotten: 16
As stylish as ever, director Danny Boyle seems to be treading water with the surprisingly thinly written Trance -- but for fans of Boyle's work, it should still prove a trippily entertaining distraction.
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Simon (James McAvoy), a fine art auctioneer, teams up with a criminal gang to steal a Goya painting worth millions of dollars, but after suffering a blow to the head during the heist he awakens to discover he has no memory of where he hid the painting. When physical threats and torture fail to produce answers, the gang's leader Frank (Vincent Cassel) hires hypnotherapist Elizabeth Lamb (Rosario Dawson) to delve into the darkest recesses of Simon's psyche. As Elizabeth begins to unravel Simon's
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Cast
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James McAvoy
Simon -
Vincent Cassel
Franck -
Rosario Dawson
Elizabeth -
Matt Cross
Dominic -
Wahab Sheikh
Riz -
Danny Sapani
Nate -
Mark Poltimore
Francis Lemaitre -
Tuppence Middleton
Young Woman in Red C... -
Simon Kunz
Surgeon -
Michael Shaeffer
Security Guard #1 -
Tony Jayawardena
Security Guard #2 -
Vincent Montuel
Handsome Waiter -
Jai Rajani
Car Park Attendant -
Spencer Wilding
60s Robber -
Gursharan Chaggar
Postman -
Edward Rising
60s Auctioneer -
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All Critics (160) | Top Critics (35) | Fresh (109) | Rotten (51)
Trance is to Danny Boyle more or less as Side Effects was to Steven Soderbergh: an arty spin on a trashy B-movie, engineered to showcase the director's particular gifts.
Top CriticThe story draws us in even through the murk.
Dawson walks through this film with majestic confidence while McAvoy is constantly inches from a full breakdown. And Boyle keeps that tension mesmerizing.
I came away wondering whether the headache I left the theater with was such a bad -- or even unintentional -- thing after all.
The plot of Trance is purposely convoluted - you're supposed to get more and more confused as the story unfolds, not always sure if what you're watching is a dream.
[Boyle] leaves it to the audience to try to figure out just what's up, and what's going down, in this sleek psychological puzzler.
[Director Danny] Boyle has not only delivered a first-rate thriller, he has produced a film that should inspire healthy debate... both about its plotting and characters. In a world of disposable entertainment, it is a lasting piece of art.
The trance angle adds an interesting dimension to an otherwise routine crime caper flick.
Multi-layered and beautifully-filmed by Oscar winner Danny Boyle, this drama lets viewers into the world of art and hypnosis in a tale that should be talked about long after the credits roll.
It's a film that blurs several lines - including those between fantasy and reality, heroes and villains, and fact and fiction - and does so in a way that puts a fresh and compelling spin on contemporary film noir and heist pictures.
A complex, breakneck and stirring modern thriller, superb in both execution and conceptual ideas even if it is a little over-indulgent.
An occasionally frustrating and far-fetched psychological thriller with enough deceptive plot switchbacks and visual tricks for three movies.
At least the film looks great, but without much of a spark, 'Trance' can only make you sleepy - very sleepy.
The unpredictable journey through fluid and malleable concepts of reality and identity is consistently gripping.
Aparentemente, Danny Boyle encontra-se encantado demais pelas possibilidades da lógica visual que criou para se incomodar com a (falta de) lógica da história que está contando.
Trance is an elaborate tease. Trance is more mindless than mind-bending.
The best we can say about this is that it's better than Guy Ritchie.
Boyle's showboating has none of the impact of the film's most memorable image, a sudden full-length shot of Rosario Dawson, as bare as a Renaissance Venus. This is a startling example of cinema's original and unsurpassed special effect: the human figure.
Trance isn't the director's best by a long shot, but it's a perfectly serviceable thriller with all Boyle's trademark flourishes.
... a flashy time-killer, a hodgepodge of trompe l'oeil ruses that add up to your standard noir mystery, only tricked-out in the latest in digital effects.
Trance is a busy, glittering picture, but you never have much of a stake in the outlandish twists (unless you happen to take hypnotism very seriously).
Like any good thriller worth its weight in red herrings, Trance keeps the audience guessing for the vast majority of its running time.
A beguilingly brilliant cinematic puzzle.
(Rosario) Dawson, in a performance worthy of an Academy Award nomination, reveals Lamb to be a wily fox able to outwit the stronger prey that surrounds her.
Director Danny Boyle goes off the boil with this meandering Inception wannabe... far from being a clever, tense heist-film-with-a-twist Trance is a laboured, over-stylised slice of pseudo-psychological babble. And it's kind of dull.
An overly-preposterous, neo-Noir crime thriller that unravels its central mystery - and then collapses when bringing deeper significance to the proceedings.
Audience Reviews for Trance
Super Reviewer
Boyle is a masterful storyteller. You could say that "Trance" is one of his more lighter projects compared to his other ambitious efforts, but it's not to say that this film wasn't crafted with the same amount of finesse as his other films. Everything from the storytelling, cinematography, and dialogue, Boyle sweeps viewers in along the ride. Everything's smooth sailing until the story begins to reveal its inevitable "twist" at the end. It's in the 3rd act when "Trance" begins to break its suspension of disbelief and begins to rear its ugly head, but albeit, it's not as ridiculously far-fetched like "Now You See Me". You could almost say, the twist took me out of its trance. YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!
Overall, "Trance" is a truly entertaining, mind-boggling trip that is imaginative, suspenseful, and truly engaging. Though the finale does take viewers of the experience, "Trance" still manages to remain a commendable film to watch.
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- Franck: She put it there. It's not real.
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- Trance - Gefährliche Erinnerung (DE)
