A weekend getaway goes sour even before the corpses start accruing in “Trespassers,” a good-looking indie thriller that’s diverting, but could have used another script draft or two. Depicting two q…
’s film has a leisurely enough buildup that room should have been made for more fully developed characters. Fine-tuning the pileup of eventual violent crises wouldn’t have hurt, either. The result falls short of being especially credible, let alone memorable. Still, this is a polished genre exercise that provides a decent night’s home entertainment. IFC Midnight is opening it July 12 on screens in New York and Los Angeles, simultaneous with its launch on demand.
Of the two, Joe seems more inclined to seriously work on their issues , and as a result is irked that Sarah has invited along another couple: high school bestie Estelle and her new beau Victor . Even more unfortunately for all, Victor turns out to be an obnoxious, pushy playa type who immediately breaks out the booze and cocaine, both of which only heighten his faults.
At this point, the protagonists have a very serious situation on their hands, and bullying Victor fully meets already-dire expectations about his character by making things that much worse. Further complications set in with the arrival of two local cops . Then there are those three masked amigos, still after something in the house that is presumably tied to a Mexican drug cartel.
Yet despite competent lead performances , the central characters aren’t lent enough depth in Corey Deshon’s script to make us truly care about their fates. And the crises, as they escalate, grow more conventional as well as more improbable, with a rote torture-porn-style interlude and an unmasked cartel figure who’s such a caricatured “bad hombre” his role might have been conceived by a GOP strategist.
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