Trance Reviews
TheMovieReport.com
The unpredictable journey through fluid and malleable concepts of reality and identity is consistently gripping.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Cinema em Cena
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.
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| Original Score: 3/5
tonymacklin.net
Trance is an elaborate tease. Trance is more mindless than mind-bending.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
East Bay Express
The best we can say about this is that it's better than Guy Ritchie.
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
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.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Houston Press
Trance isn't the director's best by a long shot, but it's a perfectly serviceable thriller with all Boyle's trademark flourishes.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
CinemaDope
... 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.
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| Original Score: 2.5/3
Bloomberg News
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).
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| Original Score: 3/5
Creative Loafing
Like any good thriller worth its weight in red herrings, Trance keeps the audience guessing for the vast majority of its running time.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
A beguilingly brilliant cinematic puzzle.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
(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.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
3AW
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.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
ScreenRant
An overly-preposterous, neo-Noir crime thriller that unravels its central mystery - and then collapses when bringing deeper significance to the proceedings.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
SSG Syndicate
Trippy, intriguing, and enigmatic - it's a surreal, clever, ambiguous brain-teaser that will keep you thinking long after the lights go up.
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| Original Score: 8/10
Top CriticTrance 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.
WaffleMovies.com
The most mind-boggling movie since Inception, in a good way.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Tulsa World
Deliciously twisty, until it has too many twists.
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| Original Score: 3/4
TV Guide's Movie Guide
While we may not be able to trust any of the characters in Trance, we can certainly count on the filmmakers to deliver a story that holds us transfixed from start to finish.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Fresno Bee
The writing is crisp and the acting on target.
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| Original Score: B
Las Vegas Informer
Convoluted and deliciously twisty but worth even a second viewing. I've been placed under hypnosis and it's not like this at all. Why isn't Vincent Cassel a huge star in the U.S.?
