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Unlawful Entry (1992)

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Reviews Counted: 29

Fresh: 21

Rotten:8

Average Rating: 6.2/10

Runtime: 1 hr 52 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: A tense thriller that plays on the fears of contemporary urban life, as well as age-old sexual anxiety. Michael and Karen Carr are the couple with everything: good looks, a happy marriage and a... A tense thriller that plays on the fears of contemporary urban life, as well as age-old sexual anxiety. Michael and Karen Carr are the couple with everything: good looks, a happy marriage and a gorgeous house in an upscale section of Los Angeles. This all changes the night their home is broken into and the wife terrorized at knifepoint by the burgler. Officer Pete Davis, the comforting, supportive policeman who arrives at the scene of the crime, seems like a God-send -- until he starts worming his way into the couple's life in an increasingly inappropriate and disturbing manner. [More]

Starring: Kurt Russell, Madeleine Stowe, Ray Liotta, Roger E. Mosley

Starring: Kurt Russell, Madeleine Stowe, Ray Liotta, Roger E. Mosley, Sherrie Rose

Director: Jonathan Kaplan

Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Screenwriter: Lewis Colick
Producer: Charles Gordon
Composer: James Horner

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May 22, 2001

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A wonderfully nasty turn from Liotta, along with a novel treatment of familiar plotlines, elevates Kaplan's effort into the 'must see' category.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
04/09/08
Jo Berry
Empire Magazine

Gordon lacks Scorsese's talent for unsettling his audience, but he can turn up the tension until you squirm in your seat or want to shout at the screen.

Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
04/09/08
Channel 4 Film

Although it exists primarily to send an audience into a bloodthirsty frenzy and has major credibility problems in the bargain, Unlawful Entry is still a very effective victimization thriller.

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04/09/08
Todd McCarthy
Variety
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A paint-by-numbers suspense thriller redeemed by stylish, economic direction and a marvelous performance by Ray Liotta as a psycho L.A. cop.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
04/09/08
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Neither Lewis Colick's script nor Jonathan Kaplan's direction is quite as streamlined as it could be, but you certainly get a run for your money.

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04/09/08
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
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It's an amazingly sharp, nasty little thriller that takes a silly situation and squeezes it to the core, vicious as a heart attack.

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02/17/07
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

Solid performances lend weight to the flakier elements, with Liotta turning crazed excess into something wild.

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06/24/06
Time Out

This well-done suspense-thriller is a variation of the Fatal Attraction theme with Ray Liotta as the cop from hell.

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03/04/06
Chuck O'Leary
FulvueDrive-in.com

No review available.

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07/15/05
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

Okay thriller.

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04/22/05
Kevin Carr
7M Pictures

No review available.

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05/14/04
Carol Cling
Las Vegas Review-Journal

No review available.

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01/18/04
Greg Maki
Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)

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01/01/04
Michael Dequina
Mr. Brown's Movies

A competent thriller, not much more.

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11/28/03
Luke Y. Thompson
New Times

Below average thriller. The power of a cop is scary, but most of the plot points are standard thriller moments, right down to the scary cat.

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07/14/03
Fred Topel
About.com

More gripping than it is convincing.

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05/20/03
Janet Maslin
New York Times
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A solid, suspenseful "B" film

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02/27/03
Jeffrey M. Anderson
San Francisco Examiner

Kurt Russell gives new meaning to the term action hero. A real white-knuckler.

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09/19/02
Clint Morris
Moviehole

glossy, disappointingly flat thriller

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08/04/02
James Sanford
Kalamazoo Gazette

No review available.

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07/31/02
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
 
 
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