Intruders (2011)

Best movie of this year hands down!

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Sorry, this movie sucks

Powerful

Intruders wants to be Pan Labyrinth for Young Adults and it fails.It has two parallel stories of children seeing a faceless stranger at night called Hollow Face. In Sain, a young mother wants to protect her son from Hollow Face and even consults a priest.In Britain, a young girl who tells vivid spooky tales is attacked at night by Hollow Face until her father comes to the rescue.The question is how can the father see the faceless person in a hoodie? There is a link between the two disparate stories but the film is not really scary or gory and it was actually rather boring.

This movie was a real treat to finally find something on Netflix to watch worth the $7.95 I pay each month. If I were you, I would stay away from long reviews and long descriptions and watch this fresh for yourself. Figure it out for yourself because any hints will spoil the movie and take away from its real presentation - it unfolds for you - that is the point. If you like psychology, medical, reasons people do what they do, then it is all there. Plus, Clive Owen is a pleasure to watch. He is an excellent actor and is handsome, which is more than you get from most movies they are throwing together with unknown actors these days. Hunker down for the evening and enjoy. If you still have questions, then you can read all the spoilers.

I usually love this type of movie: not being full of effects, full of violence and/or gore. But having a story to tell in some "spooky", or more like mysterious kind of way. With brilliant actors and a good twist at the end. In case of "Intruders" though, I was disappointed right from the beginning, as, for an, let's call it "advanced viewer", parts of the conclusion got presented right at the beginning of the movie. From that minute it's just speculating if you are right or wrong. When reaching the end you have to admit you weren't all right, but yeah, you knew it would end like this. This wouldn't be something new or would make a movie really bad, but Intruders got nothing else to shine with. The Plot isn't told in a good way. It's more like waiting for something to happen finally. And when you come to that point, there is no big surprise and not THAT BIG of a story-twist if you ask me. The more than average attempt to build up suspension with a rather "everyday plot" is what's left. It's too bad the movie's ending can't live up to that bit of given suspension. The good actors finally can't rescue this movie after all this. You will reach the point where you just want it to end.I recommend this movie to people who were really surprised at the end of "the sixth sense", which did present the "surprise" right at the beginning too (even if people still say they didn't knew what would happen, I personally can't believe it). For the story, it's more like "the machinist"...maybe. It's a rather calm movie with some "thrilling" effects. But nothing that prevents you from sleeping after seeing it. Also you won't think about it for the next few days, so it's really a gentle experience you want to have sitting at home, not really concentrating, since there's just not much to follow at the screen.Soooo, that's 4 Stars from me for pretty good acting, some thrills, average story, and a well-known but not convincing construction of the movie.

This one tries to be somewhat complex as it turns up the Think Volume, and that is hardly a prerequisite in the Genre. Going for an interwoven Storyline of two different but connecting events, this is a challenging Movie and maybe just a little too heavy for its own good.It is creepy and manages to involve through some good Cinematography and fine Performances. But confusion may set in at times and it detracts from some of the scariness and causes some questions and unnecessary interpersonal quibbling about events.The ending is an all or nothing affair that will have some saying, oh Cool, and others scratching their heads with a, oh come on, reaction. It is clever but rather annoying and not very well handled Cinematically. It is a wrap that is satisfying enough but ultimately tries to fit a lot of information into little Screen Time and fails somewhat in its denouement.Worth a view for its ambition and some tense moments and suspenseful Scenes. Just a bit more substance than necessary, if that's possible, because it becomes more murk than mystery.