Superficial but commendable; I doubt there'll ever be a better adaptation of the book than this one.

Somehow the best of the year so far, although I had to wrangle my head around a finale/epilogue which seemed to kill the mood of the film. It's still a superbly handled 80-minute thriller that flies by, and isn't afraid to leave questions unanswered. Extra points for O'Connell's charm and comic timing, as well as Roth's effortless cool.

While Boyle's reputation may never have been higher than it is now, one feels his efforts would have been better suited on any other project than this one. Trance badly wants to be a stylish, meandering ménage a trois; instead, it features possibly the least erotic love triangle ever brought to celluloid, its trio impenetrable as personalities and devoid of any interesting dynamics between them. With a script as cavalier with logic as this one, and with a director as shameless in his compulsion to sacrifice good taste for empty sensation, the result is an unsavory, unredeemable mess.

Full review here: www.inreviewonline.com/inreview/current_film/Entries/2013/4/5_Trance_%282013%29.html