Trance

2013

Action / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller

71
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 62% · 183 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 62% · 25K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.9/10 10 120594 120.6K

amnesia loss of sense of reality heist art thief double cross hypnotism

Plot summary

A violent gang enlists the help of a hypnotherapist in an attempt to locate a painting which somehow vanished in the middle of a heist.

Director

Danny Boyle Photo
Danny Boyle

Top cast

Lee Nicholas Harris Photo
Lee Nicholas Harris as Paramedic
Simon Kunz Photo
Simon Kunz as Surgeon
Spencer Wilding Photo
Spencer Wilding as 60's Robber
James McAvoy Photo
James McAvoy as Simon
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873.36 MB
1280*534
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 41 min
Seeds 7
1.63 GB
1920*800
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 41 min
Seeds 30

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by 3xHCCH 8 / 10

Boyle's "Inception" Without the Special Effects

An art auctioneer suffers amnesia when a robbery of a Goya masterpiece went wrong. A hypnotherapist was recruited to jog the memory out of him. Thus begins the multi-layered puzzle that is "Trance". I could not say more about the story as this remains for you to watch the unfolding of each scene that complicates the one before it.Danny Boyle was very much in the news in the past few years because of his "Slumdog Millionaire" as well as his London Olympics gig. Now he returns to the big screen directing this Rubik's cube of a film, and that itself makes this film an event to witness.James McAvoy plays Simon, the art auctioneer with a huge gambling debt caught in a bigger web, with the necessary cluelessness and helplessness. In fact, I could imagine Boyle's "trainspotting" discovery Ewan McGregor in this role had it been done ten years ago. Rosario Dawson lends her exotic appeal as hypnotherapist Elizabeth Lamb. It was her character that provides this film that complex structure which would keep the audience wondering which is reality and which is just a trance. She was credible, treading that delicate balance between good and bad, realistically keeping the two other male characters guessing at her real intentions. Her brave moment of frontal nudity was key to how the story turns, not gratuitous. Vincent Cassel plays Franck, the ruthless mastermind of the art heist. His character would have been a one-dimensional bad guy in a lesser actor's hands. Here Cassel gives Franck another level of what seems to be vulnerability, or then again, maybe not.Fans of film noir, of films that make you think, will enjoy "Trance". I am sure many fans of this film will watch it again to try and get it the second or third time around. Boyle has given us "Inception" without the grand special effects. So good. Must-watch.
Reviewed by grantss 5 / 10

Tries too hard to be complex

Overwrought psychological crime-drama movie. Director Danny Boyle tries too hard to make the movie complex. So we have twist after twist, just for twist's sake. By the end you have no idea what is real or what is not, what happened and what was in a character's mind. Not all bad - it was intriguing in spells. However, just when you start to enjoy it and think it may not be as bad as you thought, another twist comes which screws all that up.Plot is not that watertight anyway. Several points where things just didn't gel. Maybe that's the idea of all the twists - take your mind off the plot holes.Performances are mostly OK. James McAvoy and Vincent Cassell are fine in their roles. However, Rosario Dawson is unconvincing in her role. More a miscasting: she is not a femme fatale.
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