Intruders

Intruders is a poorly delivered joke. And I mean that in the nicest way possible (though I certainly wouldn't call it a very good movie at all). I would compare the Intruders to a joke that starts out with a good premise, but by the time the person is done telling it...the joke has been running forever with such a poor delivery that it's impossible to have interest by the end. Intruders is like watching a good idea fall down the stairs and end up with a broken neck.

Intruders stars Clive Owen as John, a father whose daughter is having horrific nightmares about a faceless monster looking to steal her face. Simultaneously, in another country, a little boy is also having similar nightmares about this monster that's coming to get them. But what do the two children have in common? As the movie unfolds, the least that can be said, is that these two children have more similarities than they would have ever imagined, and that this monster named "Hollowface" is targeting them for a specific reason.

Like I said, Intruders had good potential. There's an intriguing premise behind this movie and I must admit fo a while, I was actually quite curious to see where it would go. Unfortunately, watching this movie for excitement and thrills is like running through mud to improve your speed. So many flat and lifeless scenes are thrown on in this movie, it seems more like your watching a Lifetime movie's deleted scenes as opposed to a real movie. There never seems to be any present terror here and the movie is unsuccessful at delivering any type of menace at all. Add on an uninspired and cliched ending, and performances that all feel like the actors were on complete auto-pilot the entire time, and you have a movie that warrants a giant alarm to go off before the opening credits roll.

1/4