A taut thriller much of the way, Unlawful Entry suffers from some serious lapses in logic.
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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Reviews for Unlawful Entry
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.
The plot is as tediously redundant as director Jonathan Kaplan's approach is carefully workmanlike.
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.
A paint-by-numbers suspense thriller redeemed by stylish, economic direction and a marvelous performance by Ray Liotta as a psycho L.A. cop.
Solid performances lend weight to the flakier elements, with Liotta turning crazed excess into something wild.
This well-done suspense-thriller is a variation of the Fatal Attraction theme with Ray Liotta as the cop from hell.
It's an amazingly sharp, nasty little thriller that takes a silly situation and squeezes it to the core, vicious as a heart attack.
A wonderfully nasty turn from Liotta, along with a novel treatment of familiar plotlines, elevates Kaplan's effort into the 'must see' category.
Entry is acted more intelligently than is usual in this type of cookie-cutter shocker.
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