Unlawful Entry (1992)

Perfect cast and a good story

Brilliant and touching

Absolutely Fantastic

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

After a break-in at their house, a couple gets help from one of the cops that answered their call. He helps them install the security system, and begins dropping by on short notice and unofficial patrol, and spends a lot of time discussing the couple's problems with the wife. The husband begins wondering if they're getting too much help. Unlawful Entry benefits from Ray Liotta's, Kurt Russell's and Madeline Stowe's perfomances but for those who might expect a little bit more? It's kind of a disappointing and watchable messy thriller because the film i think could have been better if Liotta didn't started turning crazy but whatever still watchable 90's film. (6/10)

I miss movies like this, way more simpler but you can tell the quality that went on it. Specially in the acting Kurt Russell, Madeleine Stowe and specially Ray Liota he is the one that's stands out as an obsessive psychopath, he nails it perfectly as he is a shallow charming guy but deep inside he is demented. What gets me in this movie than the films today of the same genre is the attention to detail, how they explore the characters making them feel authentic and true to their nature. Even if it feels "old" I highly recommend it. It's a movie for any day a Wednesday night or a Sunday afternoon.

I have seen cunning psychotic characters in a great number of movies. But the cop character Ray Liotta plays in Unlawful Entry is unforgettable. He really hit the nail on the head! Sometimes I feel that people that create such characters must have dealt with real life individuals with very similar psychotic tendencies. I mean how do you explain the behavior of that cop in Unlawful Entry?? The man was simply bad news and he believed in what he was doing. He meant business.It would be nice to see Kurt Russell, Madeline Stowe and Ray Liotta team up again in similar roles but with a different plot.Great acting indeed from the cast members.

The direction, the production, the cinematography of it.. well, none shows something more than "decent". With boldness, and not much of talent, Kurt Russell took the role of the innocent protagonist, not the flashy antagonist. Anyway, Ray Liotta wiped him off the screen. But, again, greatness isn't anywhere close. So, in brief, this movie has just 3 points that overstepped decent to distinct.1) It's another modern-day Cape Fear. The book-smart peaceable vs. The street-smart provocative. In Cape Fear (1962), the stalker was a sadist criminal who, after feeling wronged by certain social class, cannonades his revenge. Play Misty for Me (1971) came to put a lot of absolute craziness, and a lot of true love, to the mix. Now one year after a remake of the original, Cape Fear (1991), Unlawful Entry comes along as a new entry, with sly psychopathic lover, who happens to be a police officer.The distractive power this time gets a long legal hand. It fits as a thrilling device (at one point, the criminal / officer gets the book-smart peaceable husband into jail easily). Furthermore, it could work in terms of being a satire towards twisted cops, even if lightly. 2) Madeleine Stowe's special beauty, if not heavy sexuality. She was something else as one-of-a-kind hottie and talented actress as well. 3) The cell phone of Russell's character. Oh my god, here's something for the historians. It exemplifies how cinema, one way or another, chronicles the world's details. Sure back then they had to rent a lorry to convey that *cell* along the way !The thing is everything was light. At one moment the husband is seduced by the force of the dark side, but of course nothing of that matter was well explored or utilized. Because the movie chose earlier being a routinely-made pure commercial, not urban horror with anything deep. So, this time Max Cady reincarnates as a desperately in love officer, Madeleine Stowe gets naked on a table, and Kurt Russell, as many people in 1992, had a giant brick as a cell phone. Save that, it's a trite TV movie with names of Hollywood stars on it.