I saw this film on video, on a cold snowy day. Perfect conditions for this type of dark, mysterious movie. Charlotte Gainsbourg is quite intriguing as the lead. Ditto Nastassja Kinski as the oddly vulpine neighbor and Molly Parker as the eccentric Miss LonelyHearts. I wish I could say nice things about everyone else. Alas, there are some weak actors in some supporting roles who appear to be reading their lines from a teleprompter. And...the plot, though fun and slightly sci-fi, becomes so murky that as a viewer, I simply had to give up on understanding it and busied myself with the suspense factors instead. For me, it finally boiled down to "will she make it out alive or will she not?"
The Intruder
1999
Action / Drama / Mystery / Romance / Thriller
The Intruder
1999
Action / Drama / Mystery / Romance / Thriller
Plot summary
Catherine meets Nick by accident and, after a whirlwind romance, the two get married and Catherine moves into Nick's apartment only that's the start of problems when an unseen intruder begins playing strange mind games with Catherine in an apparent attempt to drive her insane. Catherine first suspects Nick is behind it, then suspicion moves to his business partner Badge, then to Nick's friends, until Catherine suspects that Nick's first wife Stella, who commited suicide years before, may be behind the occurrences which she may be committing from either beyond the grave, or by a time vortex within the apartment itself which may have let to her suicide in the first place.
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Enjoyable but murky
Fairly Good Film, Fairly Bad Sound Quality
This film is yet another example of the less than adequate sound quality in many imports. This film has dialogue that counts, it deserves theatrical level sound - not the shoddy system that is all too common in Two Left Feet Corp. imports. There is a nice streak of relativistic sci-fi, and as in Event Horizon et al - it's amazing how all arguments about relativistic time can be solved by folding a piece of paper! If Only! The acting is reasonable - except for the worst impression of a lawyer I have ever seen! I think that this guy had the script in his lap! Oh Well - if nothing else on the shelf grabs you - this is worth the rent - but rental ONLY!
A Dry Thriller
Watched this a few days ago & found it overall to be pretty dry & uninteresting.
The film centers around a married woman who not long after getting married starts to see cracks in her hubby's past. The previous woman he was with starts to "haunt" their flat & move things around etc. But there's a more deeper mystery to this story as the film unfolds.
I found the film to be pretty dry in all honesty. I usually like thrillers but this lacked the punch most thrillers of today usually have. Although there was some sinister moments in this 1hr & 30min film, I still couldn't help but feel the film felt dull & lacked emphasis.
Overall it was watchable, but was pretty dry sadly. 4/10