Trance
2013
Action / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller

Trance
2013
Action / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Plot summary
A violent gang enlists the help of a hypnotherapist in an attempt to locate a painting which somehow vanished in the middle of a heist.
Director
Top cast
Tech specs
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Boyle's "Inception" Without the Special Effects
Tries too hard to be complex
Overwrought psychological crime-drama movie. Director Danny Boyle tries too hard to make the movie complex. So we have twist after twist, just for twist's sake. By the end you have no idea what is real or what is not, what happened and what was in a character's mind.
Not all bad - it was intriguing in spells. However, just when you start to enjoy it and think it may not be as bad as you thought, another twist comes which screws all that up.
Plot is not that watertight anyway. Several points where things just didn't gel. Maybe that's the idea of all the twists - take your mind off the plot holes.
Performances are mostly OK. James McAvoy and Vincent Cassell are fine in their roles. However, Rosario Dawson is unconvincing in her role. More a miscasting: she is not a femme fatale.