Trois (2000)

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Just perfect...

Beautiful, moving film.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

First, the bad: 1) The movie is mis-marketed by the packaging. There is a lot more to Trois than just the complications arising from the forbidden three-way tryst. The movie becomes a mystery/thriller/suspense and the shift is almost disconcerting if all you have to go on is the box art.2) The lighting sucks and the camera work is simplistic. The filmmakers are young and had a small budget and it shows in these two areas. The lighting often makes the viewer feel they've mistakenly changed channels to a daytime soap opera and the camera work (with the exception of the excellent opening "home video" scenes) is nothing to boast about.3) There are about three times in the film that the delivery of a certain line fails completely, and is so bad that it nearly sinks the entire scene in which it appears.4) Is the number of sets used. Literally. Two houses, an office, and a bar. Four sets. That's about it.Now, the good: 1) Excellent acting. The lead for this role does a fantastic job playing a young, ambitious, newlywed husband. All of the additional characters are strong. Every main character has at least one chance to really shine dramatically and they all step up to the challenge. A lame performance never ruins a scene, and the dialogue is (for the most part) delivered convincingly in a natural way.2) Superb production value: "but wait a minute, you just said there were four sets and the lighting sucked!" True, but the budget for this film was $200k. If you handed $200k to the Steven Spielberg or James Cameron, I'm willing to bet they couldn't have managed half of the things this movie does on a shoestring. It's an excellent effort and the results they got for their money are astounding.3) An intriguing, original plot. The story, which starts out relatively simple, takes a couple of twists and turns that actually create a complex web of confusion and deceit that makes the story work.4) An excellent, tasteful sex scene. If you bought this movie hoping for porn, you'll be let down. The sex shots are tight, sensual, and mature. They propel the story forward and do justice to the topic without glamourizing it or taking the focus off the story to focus on the sex.In short: if you feel like lately you've sat through one too many summer 'blockbusters' with the same old hackneyed plots, huge effects, and zero heart, this might be the movie you're looking for. Or if you laughed all the way through "Love and a Bullet" and thought it was excellent, you might like this one.

This movie was horrible. I should know, since I've sat through it multiple times. There really is no strong plot to speak of. It's pretty much just soft core porn.The ONLY reason I can see for watching this movie at all is Gary Dourdan. That man looks so right, he should be wrong. Damn fine. If you like Warrick, from CSI:Crime Scene Investigations, then rent this movie or catch it on late night cable, cause, Damn.That is all.

This is absolutely the worst film I've ever seen. Not only does itcontain some of the worst acting, dialogue and directing everburned onto celluloid, it is nothing but pure trash. It amazes me that money was actually used to fund this project. I can't imagine how anybody thought this was something worthmaking based on the horrendous script and premise. Soloman K. Smith delivers probably the worst performance inhistory as does Gretchen Palmer. This is embarassing. NEVER EVER watch this movie.

This movie was an outrageous waste of time. The acting was either over the top or totally flat. The plot twists had nothing to do with the actual theme of the movie and the plot itself just seemed to drag along going nowhere until the end. Also, why did the wife stick with her perverted husband for so long after she knew he was an unfaithful pig? She seemed too smart to be that naive. A woman that fine deserves better (Hey, I'm single!). The only bright spot in the whole movie was Kenya Moore and not for acting, but because she is so beautiful. I don't want to sound like a pervert, but why did her husband in this movie need to have another woman when his wife had a rack like that? She is my dream wife and would be more than enough to satisfy me. My advice is don't waste your time with this movie; the plot makes no sense, the acting was at best mediocre, and the love scenes were too tame.